Oil Change International

Posts by David Turnbull

• 

  Oil Change International joins California environmental justice groups in opposition to A.B. 398

  David Turnbull, July 12, 2017
  Governor Brown’s latest climate package perpetuates the myth that business as usual in the fossil fuel industry can go on with only a few small adjustments, and everything will be fine. That view may fly in the petrodollar soaked halls in Sacramento, but climate science and the health and wellbeing of communities living next to industry have a different perspective.
• 

  RELEASE: G20 Nations Sending Billions in Finance to Fossil Fuels

  David Turnbull, July 5, 2017
  Each year, G20 countries provide nearly four times more public finance to fossil fuels than to clean energy, according to a new report released today. In total, public fossil fuel financing from G20 countries averaged some $71.8 billion per year, for a total of $215.3 billion in sweetheart deals for oil, gas, and coal over the 2013-2015 timeframe covered by the report.
• 

  Oil Change International Responds to Trump’s ‘Energy Week’ Speech

  David Turnbull, June 29, 2017
  The 'energy dominance' tagline should be called out for what it is: another manifestation of the President’s misogynistic, hyper-masculine, abusive outlook on the world.
• 

  Trump’s energy week looks a lot like his health care bill. Disastrous.

  David Turnbull, June 27, 2017
  Trump's energy week and health care bill have a lot in common. Both would redistribute wealth up from ordinary Americans to the wealthiest. Both would make people sick. Both would cost lives.
• 

  Reaction: Oil Change International responds to Trump pull out from Paris Agreement

  David Turnbull, May 31, 2017
  America First? Trump just put America Last in the coming clean energy economy. So ends the so-called ‘American century’ of leadership. The decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement will go down in history as one of the most short-sighted, destructive, and malicious decisions of any American President ever.
• 

  RELEASE: Oil Change International responds to FERC nominations hearing

  David Turnbull, May 25, 2017
  Both nominees and Senators alike appeared oblivious to the fact that gas is as dirty as coal and that significantly increasing gas reliance through new pipelines and liquefied natural gas export facilities is incompatible with a stable climate.
• 

  RELEASE: Taxpayers on the hook for billions in subsidies for fossil fuels on public lands

  David Turnbull, May 24, 2017
  The U.S. government is providing extensive support for fossil fuel production on public lands and waters offshore, through a combination of direct subsidies, enforcement loopholes, lax royalty collection, stagnant lease rates, and other advantages to the industry, a new report released today finds.
• 

  RELEASE: Organizations Issue Demands to FERC in Wake of Rover Accidents

  David Turnbull, May 17, 2017
  Community activists and organizations sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today, signed by 118 groups, demanding the agency halt all construction of the Rover gas pipeline, and to embark upon an extensive review of its approval policies.
• 

  #NoKXL Best Hits: Six Reasons Keystone XL Must Not Be Built

  David Turnbull, March 23, 2017
  As we await the photo-op of Keystone XL approval from the Trump Administration, here's a compilation of a few of our "best hits" for why Keystone XL must not be built.
• 

  Release: Oil companies’ flawed energy forecasts risk billions in investor capital

  David Turnbull, March 13, 2017
  Oil companies including ExxonMobil, BP and Shell are risking billions of dollars of investor capital, by basing decisions on distorted claims about the future of energy, according to a new report.