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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...

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...

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Oklahoma has become an earthquake hotspot in recent years, and many are blaming companies that engage in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Last year, the state saw its largest earthquake ever recorded at a 5.8 magnitude,...

President Donald Trump in February instructed cabinet members "to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people," and it appears Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt has...

The head of one of Australia's biggest electricity companies rejects coal as a solution to Australia's energy crisis and urges the Federal Government to adopt the recommendations of chief scientist Alan Finkel.

The lack of a carbon price is paralysing investment in Australia's energy sector and putting domestic power bills on track to surge by up to 40 per cent, experts warn.