Press Releases

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  VA State Water Control Board Delays the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Oil Change International Response

  Lorne Stockman, December 12, 2017
  The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, like the Mountain Valley Pipeline, is a boondoggle that imperils our climate and communities. It must not be built. The Water Board has given itself an important opportunity to complete its work the right way by finalizing a complete rejection.
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  Big Shift campaign reacts to World Bank commitment to end upstream oil and gas finance

  Collin Rees, December 12, 2017
  All financial institutions, public and private, including the World Bank, must still work toward aligning their finance with the aim of keeping global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius, but today, the World Bank set a high new bar in climate leadership.
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  Reaction: World Bank Steals Show at One Planet Summit by Phasing Out Upstream Oil and Gas Finance

  Alex Doukas, December 12, 2017
  Today at the One Planet Summit the World Bank set a new bar for financial climate leadership by committing to end finance for oil and gas extraction and exploration projects.
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  Dirty Dozen Released: 12 Projects that Undermine the One Planet Summit and Put the Climate at Risk

  Alex Doukas, December 11, 2017
  The 12 projects contained in today's new briefing are examples that demonstrate how public finance is still acting as a critical lifeline for destructive fossil fuel projects, many of which could not otherwise be built, and how this support continues to this day, a full year after the Paris Agreement entered into force.
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  VA Water Control Board approves Mountain Valley Pipeline: Oil Change International response

  David Turnbull, December 7, 2017
  The fight against the Mountain Valley Pipeline is not over. Hundreds of Virginians circled the state Capitol last weekend, and Virginians across the state will continue to oppose this dangerous pipeline. The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a boondoggle that imperils our climate and communities. It must not be built.”
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  Oil Change International Statement on Senate Tax Bill Passage

  Janet Redman, December 2, 2017
  Early this morning, the Senate passed a tax overhaul bill riddled with tax breaks for wealthy individuals and corporations, more handouts to fossil fuels, and provisions that would imperil health coverage for millions.
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  Nebraska Approves Keystone XL alternative route, Oil Change International response

  David Turnbull, November 20, 2017
  Today the Nebraska PSC chose to stand with Trump, climate denial, and Big Oil. Good luck with that. Whatever happens now there is precisely zero chance that the global citizen, investor, and government momentum behind the Paris goals and against the fossil fuel industry will be stopped. Even if Trump and the PSC are out, the rest of the world is #stillin.
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  Germany’s Fossil Fuel Subsidies Self Review Makes Mockery of Paris Climate Agreement

  Alex Doukas, November 15, 2017
  Today, Germany quietly released the ‘German Report on the Phasing-Out of Inefficient Fossil Fuel Subsidies,’ the country’s self-review as part of the G20 fossil fuel subsidies peer review process. Despite Germany’s rising fossil fuel subsidies, the review states that Germany plans to end only two subsidies, and claims that none of the other fossil fuel subsidies are ‘inefficient,’ supposedly putting them outside the G20 subsidies phase-out pledge.
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  RELEASE: High Level Call to Constrain Oil, Gas, and Coal Production to Achieve the Paris Goals

  Hannah McKinnon, November 15, 2017
  High level officials from Pacific Islands have called for a reining in of fossil fuel production in order to stay within the climate limits agreed to in Paris. They were joined in their call by civil society, indigenous, and academic voices. These calls echo the asks of the Lofoten Declaration, which affirms that it is the urgent responsibility and moral obligation of wealthy fossil fuel producers to lead in these efforts.
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  Reaction: International Energy Agency undermines Paris Agreement

  Adam Scott, November 14, 2017
  “The IEA must help the world plan for success in reaching the Paris goals. That can’t happen until a real climate scenario forms the heart of World Energy Outlook.”