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- Chemical headaches, plant sirens – these were the constant background to my home and school life. My community is on the climate frontline
- Greener BP must do more than talk tough on the climate crisis Sun, 20 Sep 20, 1:00amA company steeped in oil and gas production may not find it easy to convince investors of its environmental credentials
- Oil and plastic industry spent millions to mislead the public about plastic recycling Thu, 17 Sep 20, 3:30amA new investigation by NPR and PBS Frontline reveals that for decades, executives in the oil and plastic industries invested millions of U.S. dollars into misleading the public about the recycling of plastics....
- Global oil demand may have passed peak, says BP energy report Mon, 14 Sep 20, 9:01amOil will be replaced by clean electricity, BP predicts, as demand may never recover from Covid-19 pandemic
- BP takes $1.1bn stake in offshore wind farms as it agrees Equinor deal Thu, 10 Sep 20, 7:08pmStrategic partnership will seek to develop more wind farms off the coast of the US
- Hurricane Laura causes dangerous chemical fire in Louisiana Tue, 1 Sep 20, 2:30amIt’s bad enough to stay shut in your house, terrified, as you ride out a Category 4 hurricane. But the people of Westlake, Louisiana had an additional reason to stay inside last week with the windows clamped tight as Hurricane...
- Mysterious dolphin deaths linked to oil spill in Mauritius Tue, 1 Sep 20, 3:30amApproximately 40 dolphins have been reported dead in an area affected by an oil spill from a Japanese ship. The ship, MV Wakashio, ran aground on a coral reef on the southern tip of Mauritius in July. According...
- Norway oil drilling expands to Svalbard Fri, 28 Aug 20, 2:30amNorway is expanding oil drilling operations farther north into the Arctic. Environmentalists are concerned about the fragile Arctic ecosystem, and campaigners worry relations with Russia will deteriorate as Norway pushes...
- Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas Wed, 26 Aug 20, 10:42pmCritics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
- DNC reverses pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies Fri, 21 Aug 20, 2:30amThe Democratic presidential and vice-presidential candidates were barely announced before the DNC removed campaign pledges to end fossil fuel subsidies...
- Trump administration furthers Arctic drilling plan Thu, 20 Aug 20, 3:30amThe Trump administration's environmental protection rollbacks seem to now come daily. Today's bad news? A plan to allow oil and gas companies to drill in Alaska's so-far pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.[...]
- EPA loosens restrictions on methane emissions Wed, 19 Aug 20, 3:30amAs President Trump’s term comes to an end, his administration has busily rolled back Obama-era environmental protections. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has loosened standards governing how much methane...
- Trump in final push to open up Alaska's Arctic refuge to oil and gas drilling Tue, 18 Aug 20, 12:58amInterior department to auction leases before year’s endCritics condemn plan to drill in America’s ‘last great wilderness’The Trump administration is taking the final steps to let oil and gas companies drill in the...
- Seven top oil firms downgrade assets by $87bn in nine months Fri, 14 Aug 20, 10:09pmThinktank says changes to forecasts reflect accelerated shift away from fossil fuels
- Calls for Woodside to pay $200m to clean up moribund Timor Sea oil site it ran until 2016 Sun, 9 Aug 20, 6:00amReview recommends ‘trailing liability’, where owners remain liable for decommissioning sites after selling them