Press Releases

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  Oil Change International Responds to Trump Infrastructure Executive Order

  Janet Redman, August 15, 2017
  “Trump has once again proved himself to be a reckless cynic doing the bidding of his billionaire developer friends. What he and his big business cronies call ‘streamlining,' Americans recognize as cutting corners and ramming dangerous projects down the throats of citizens voicing opposition."
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  460,000+ Comments against Keystone XL Delivered to Nebraska Commission

  Collin Rees, August 10, 2017
  On Thursday, August 10th, in Lincoln, NE, activist groups delivered more than 460,000 public comments opposing the Keystone XL pipeline to the Nebraska Public Service Commission.
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  New report: Norway one of world’s largest emissions exporters

  Hannah McKinnon, August 9, 2017
  Norway’s plans for fossil fuel development are at odds with its commitments to the Paris climate goals according to a new report. In addition to being the world’s seventh largest emissions exporter, projected oil and gas development in the country are incompatible with global carbon budgets aligned with limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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  Expert Keystone XL Testimony Denied in Last-Minute Decision

  Collin Rees, August 4, 2017
  Stockman’s planned testimony outlines that changing market conditions and realities in the tar sands industry show that there is no market need for Keystone XL pipeline. This testimony has been essentially confirmed by recent statements by TransCanada representatives themselves, who have expressed doubt in finding sufficient shippers to fill the pipeline.
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  Oil Change International Responds to Senate FERC Confirmation Vote

  Kelly Trout, August 3, 2017
  Today, the Senate voted by unanimous consent to confirm Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. In response, David Turnbull, Campaigns Director at Oil Change International, released the following statement.
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  FERC’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline Review Shrugs at Climate Disaster

  Kelly Trout, July 21, 2017
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today released its Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile project driven by Dominion Energy and Duke Energy that would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia and North Carolina.
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  Proposed oil and coal company handouts incentivize drilling, undermine climate action

  Janet Redman, July 13, 2017
  Yesterday, Sens. Whitehouse (D-RI), Heinrich (D-ND), Capito (R-WV) and Barrasso (R-WY) introduced the Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Act, legislation to extend and more than double tax credits to fossil fuel companies for using climate pollution to extract more oil.
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  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.
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  Statement: G20 leaders shame Trump, but fail to end fossil fuel subsidies

  Alex Doukas, July 8, 2017
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2017 CONTACT: Alex Doukas, alex [at] priceofoil [dot] org Stephen Kretzmann, steve [at] priceofoil [dot] org   In response to the language in the G20 Leaders’ Communique from the 2017 summit in Hamburg, which fails to establish a deadline for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, Oil Change International...
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  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.