Oil Change International

Posts by David Turnbull

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  RELEASE: Fossil Fuel Expansion Has Reached the Sky’s Limit: Report

  David Turnbull, September 22, 2016
  The embedded carbon emissions from the oil, gas, and coal in currently operating fields and mines, if they run to the end of their projected lifetimes, will take us just beyond the Paris Agreement’s 2C warming limit, and even further from the goal of 1.5C, a new study has found.
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  Surprise: Climate denying lobby group releases report salivating over fossil fuels

  David Turnbull, August 31, 2016
  Unless and until the U.S. Chamber of Commerce puts forth a serious alternative solution to the climate crisis, we humbly suggest you treat their report as seriously as the U.S. Chamber treats climate science itself.
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  The American Petroleum Institute’s Desperate PR is Failing

  David Turnbull, August 24, 2016
  The American Petroleum Institute is desperate. They want to clutch onto the past while the world changes around them, and the public really isn’t buying it.
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  White House releases a new Climate Test? Not quite, but getting closer.

  David Turnbull, August 2, 2016
  The White House just released an important document today: the final version of guidance for considering climate impacts within the NEPA process. While this document is merely guidance and “not a rule or regulation,” the updated version marks some important shifts in aligning our energy policy with our climate goals.

• Press Release: New Report Details Climate Threat of Proposed U.S. Natural Gas Expansion

  David Turnbull, July 22, 2016
  A new report out from Oil Change International, in partnership with 11 other local, regional, and national organizations, shows that current projections for U.S. natural gas production – fueled by a boom in the Appalachian Basin – will lock in enough carbon to bust through agreed climate goals.
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  RELEASE: EIA Chief Urged To Address Climate Concerns

  David Turnbull, July 11, 2016
  Today, environmentalists delivered a letter to Energy Information Administration (EIA) Administrator Adam Sieminski requesting that “the Energy Information Administration produce a safe climate scenario or scenarios that are consistent with our nation’s climate goals.” The letter comes as the EIA’s Annual Energy Conference begins in Washington, DC.
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  The EIA needs to play its part for the climate

  David Turnbull, July 11, 2016
  An enduring aspect of the EIA’s lack of attention to the urgency of the climate crisis is the lack of a projection of U.S. and/or global energy supply and demand that reflects the nation’s stated commitments to address climate change.
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  Response to Obama Administration’s new fossil fuel royalty rule

  David Turnbull, June 30, 2016
  Today’s ruling is an important step, but the work continues to stop spending taxpayer dollars to prop up dirty industries. It’s time we stop funding fossils.
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  RELEASE: Civil society organisations join forces to call for G20 to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2020

  David Turnbull, June 28, 2016
  More than 200 civil society organizations have joined together to urge G20 governments to commit to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.
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  Oil Change International applauds introduction of the FAIR Energy Policy Act by Senator Schatz

  David Turnbull, May 26, 2016
  With the climate crisis advancing at an ever-quickening pace, an immediate step toward the solution should be to stop funding fossils. This bill helps to do just that.