President Biden has continued to approve fossil fuel expansion in recent months, while pointing to Congress to excuse the United States’ lack of climate ambition and espousing false solutions like carbon capture and “net zero” plans that perpetuate fossil fuel destruction and environmental racism.
Author: Andy Rowell
Judgement Day: Big Oil bosses face Congress over decades of climate denial
Today Big Oil will appear before Congress to answer for their decades long climate denial campaign. It is the first time that collectively the bosses of Exxon, BP America, Chevron, and Shell have all testified together under oath.
Australia’s climate plan dismissed as meaningless spin and “too little, too late”
Just days before COP26, Australia’s long-awaited climate plan has been slammed by civil society, scientists and opposition politicians as void of substance and full of spin.
Leading climate deniers rebrand but “lipstick on a pig is still obvious”
How can you keep saying the earth is not warming when quite clearly it is? How can you they continue denying the evidence of climate change when everyday there is growing evidence of our climate emergency, in record fires and floods. And so the climate deniers have had to shape shift again.
International precedent set as French Bank commits to exit from fossil fuels by 2030
La Banque Postale, which is a relatively small but progressive bank in France, has set an international precedent against oil and gas expansion. The bank, which was already committed to ensuring that its banking activities achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040, announced a complete withdrawal from fossil fuels by the 2030. Will other banks now follow?
WHO calls climate change “single biggest health threat facing humanity”
As hundreds are arrested outside the White House demanding urgent action on our climate emergency, the World Health Organization has described climate change as the “single biggest health threat facing humanity,” and called on governments and policymakers to “act with urgency” on the climate and health crises.
Secretive hedge funds investing in oil are now “reaping huge profits” as prices surge
As churches, colleges and companies increasingly pull out from investing in oil and gas, under pressure from the climate movement, secretive hedge funds are betting on climate chaos, planning on making millions of dollars in the process.
Californian oil spill is another “wake-up call” to ban new fossil fuel projects
There is an unfolding “ecological disaster” off the southern Californian coast after an estimated 144,000 gallons of oil spilled onto Huntington Beach due to a pipeline failure over the weekend.
Climate Change: UK Prime Minister says youth “right to be angry,” but still drills for more oil
With weeks left until the crucial COP26 climate Conference, which is going to be held in Scotland, the bare-faced climate hypocrisy of the hosts, the British Government, is all too obvious to see.
Climate change: Antarctica and Arctic showing further signs of trouble
There are further warnings coming from both poles due to climate change.