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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) recently adopted a ban on donations coming from fossil fuel companies, HuffPost reported. The executive committee voted unanimously on a resolution proposed by political strategist...

Pope Francis hasn't been quiet about the urgency of combating climate change. Most recently, during a two-day conference in Vatican City, he took oil company executives to task and called for clean power as climate change...

An explosion rocked a TransCanada pipeline in Moundsville, West Virginia and the surrounding community yesterday. Locals said it felt like a tornado and sounded like a freight train, and they could see flames from around...

Several oil and gas projects will no longer receive financing from Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Reuters reported. The bank said it won't offer project-specific finance for Arctic oil and oil sands projects, new...

Environmentalists celebrated a victory in New York state after an energy company tossed out a 5-year-old plan to install a facility that could have handled Canadian tar sands oil...

ExxonMobil isn't typically known for climate action, but the world's biggest publicly traded oil and gas company is now fighting climate change with greenhouse gas reduction measures...

New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, set a goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050 — and she's taking action now. This week, she said the country will no longer grant new offshore oil and gas exploration permits,...

New reports show that nearly twice as much crude oil leaked from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota last November than originally estimated. TransCanada spokesperson Robynn Tysver said that roughly 9,700 barrels of oil...

Local residents, infrastructure, and oil and gas pipelines could be at risk from the ground heaving and sinking in West Texas after years of fossil fuel production, according to a new study from Southern Methodist University...

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced he will soon file a lawsuit against major oil companies for their decades-long contributions to climate change and environmental degradation...

Steve Berman is perhaps best known for winning a $206 billion settlement from tobacco companies in the 1990s, although he's also taken on big companies like Enron and Volkswagen...

New York just sent a big message to the fossil fuel industry. The state is freezing all fossil fuel investments - and they are divesting almost $400 billion in pension funds from the industry, according to Grist. In a statement,...

One of the world's leading financial institutions just announced plans to stop financing oil and gas projects. Today at the One Planet Summit, the World Bank officially announced that it will quit financing upstream oil and...

Norway raked in money from oil in the past. But now the country's Norges Bank, which manages its $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund - the world's largest - is recommending the government dump fossil fuel stocks. They said...

An Alaska senator recently introduced legislation to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. 37 Arctic wildlife scientists, including several former officials from the United States Fish and Wildlife...