Oil Change International

Posts in Gas

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  Trump’s Interior budget: More drilling, more mining, more handouts

  Janet Redman, June 20, 2017
  The myth that opening up more public lands and waters for fossil fuel production will result in a windfall for America is dead wrong. The only windfall from this production is enjoyed by oil, gas, and coal executives.
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  Interior budget boosts fossil fuels, cuts renewables funding

  Janet Redman, June 20, 2017
  In a huge industry giveaway, Trump’s Department of Interior budget increases funding for oil, gas, and coal expansion by more than $34 million – and slashes renewable energy by at least $15 million.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands

  Janet Redman, May 24, 2017
  A new report examines the extensive support for fossil fuel production on public lands and waters, provided by the U.S. government to the fossil fuel industry through a combination of direct subsidies, enforcement loopholes, lax royalty collection, and stagnant lease rates.
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  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.
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  Arctic drilling ban reveals crucial difference between Obama and Trudeau on climate

  Adam Scott, December 22, 2016
  The Obama and Trudeau announcement of an oil/gas development ban in Arctic/Atlantic waters was huge, but how each country explained it reveals a major rift.
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  Obama Scores A for Arctic and Atlantic Protection – Fails to Fight for Gulf

  Matt Maiorana, November 18, 2016
  Today the Obama Administration once again demonstrated climate leadership by taking the Arctic Ocean off the table in its five-year offshore oil and gas drilling plan. The move was a logical next step from the exclusion of Atlantic waters announced earlier this year.
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  The Sky’s Limit: Unpacking the Climate Math

  David Turnbull, October 6, 2016
  Our research has found that the carbon budget will be exhausted with current development and some currently-operating fossil fuel projects will need to be retired early in order to have a good chance of staying below the 2C limit.
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  RELEASE: Fossil Fuel Expansion Has Reached the Sky’s Limit: Report

  David Turnbull, September 22, 2016
  The embedded carbon emissions from the oil, gas, and coal in currently operating fields and mines, if they run to the end of their projected lifetimes, will take us just beyond the Paris Agreement’s 2C warming limit, and even further from the goal of 1.5C, a new study has found.