Oil Change International

Posts in climate leadership

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  Oil Change International responds to court’s quashing of Trans Mountain’s approval

  Collin Rees, August 30, 2018
  "De facto halting this dangerous project keeps open the only credible path for Canada to live up to its obligation to fight climate change. Building new, long-lived pipelines in support of ever-growing oil production and export is wholly incompatible with the rapid transition away from fossil fuels required."
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  Letter: 230+ Groups to Justin Trudeau – Climate Leadership Means Saying No to Pipelines

  Collin Rees, May 24, 2018
  Over 230 civil society groups from 44 countries released an open letter being sent to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to reject the pipeline and instead begin planning for a managed decline of fossil fuel production and a just transition for workers and impacted communities.
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  Will Governor Brown Plug the Dangerous Hole in California’s Climate Action?

  Kelly Trout, May 22, 2018
  If Governor Brown is serious about marshaling a response to climate change that is adequate to the challenge, he must lead the managed transition off oil and gas production in California. That's the call to action of a new report released by Oil Change International in partnership with 14 other environmental justice and climate groups.
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  When you are in a hole…

  Hannah McKinnon, May 9, 2018
  Tackling fossil fuel production at the UN Today, a pair of declarations representing close to 500 organizations and 140 leading economists respectively were submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) calling on countries and the process to address fossil fuel production and financing as a critical way of increasing ambition and...
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  House Poised to Vote for Big Oil Subsidy in Budget Deal – Oil Change Int’l Response

  Janet Redman, February 8, 2018
  "It's cynical and reckless to provide relief for climate-related disasters with one hand, while essentially paying Big Oil to worsen the climate crisis with the other. Transferring billions of dollars from hard-working taxpayers to ultra-rich oil companies to extract more fossil fuels will not make our country safer or stronger."
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  Letter from 30+ Groups: Congress Must Stop Subsidizing Enhanced Oil Recovery

  Janet Redman, February 6, 2018
  Today, more than 30 environmental, health and social justice organizations urged Congressional leaders to exclude an extension of the tax credit for carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery from any spending bill.
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  NC Fails Residents by Approving Atlantic Coast Pipeline Permit

  Collin Rees, January 26, 2018
  "The additional ‘restrictions’ placed are woefully inadequate. The DEQ mandates the use of ‘Horizontal Directional Drilling’ to protect the Neuse River – yet this same drilling technique is so dangerous that it’s resulted in state and federal regulators shutting down construction of two major natural gas pipelines just this month."