Today Bloomberg News revealed that the American Petroleum Institute (API) has developed a strategy to challenge America’s crude export regulations using international trade law. Deregulating U.S. crude oil exports would make fracking and the tar sands even more profitable than it already is and enable the industry to go into ever more marginal and extreme reserves to produce more of these extreme oils.
Oil Change International is excited to announce a new online tool that tracks campaign contributions given to Pennsylvania’s Senators and Representatives by fossil fuel industry interests. All data in this analysis can be found in our new State Dirty Energy Money tool: states.dirtyenergymoney.com. In recent years, the oil and gas industry has been on the … Read More
Our latest report released today exposes U.S. oil producers that want to export crude oil despite the fact that they still only produce barely more than 50% of U.S. oil demand. 40 years on from the Arab oil embargo and America’s oil producers have only one thing on their minds; profits. Lifting crude export restrictions … Read More
A report released today by Oil Change International exposes the increasing desire of U.S. oil producers to export American crude oil despite only producing around 50% of U.S. demand. The move would enable oil producers to charge American refiners higher international prices for American crude.
Last week, President Obama lauded the fact that America was poised to become the number one energy producer in the world this year.
Alabama coal baron and conservative activist Shaun McCutcheon doesn’t feel that $123,200 buys him enough influence in DC. He wants a Citizens United 2.
The amount of oil spilt in Colorado’s floods is slowly creeping up
Fossil fuel companies operating in the U.S. and Canada made $271 billion dollars in profit in 2012, while continuing to receive billions in subsidies.
Whether the scientists or oilmen win the defining battle of our time – how and when to wean ourselves off fossil fuels – will shape what this world looks like for our children and grandchildren.
Oil and gas inspectors are said to be “completely overwhelmed” by the size and scale of the destruction caused by the floods in Colorado.
