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For the past two years, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and his congressional team, have been scrutinizing a gigantic pile of internal company communications to suss out how fossil fuel corporations...
by Meteor Blades
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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SACRAMENTO — In January 2024, the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California (CSHC) released a report revealed that more than $11 million in ads were funded by Big Oil in 2023 in an attempt to undermine a new law (SB 1137) that helps protect California...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 06:25 PM PST
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CA Resources Corporation Ploy To Buy Aera Energy Is Way To Avoid Plugging Idle Wells, Capture Carbon Los Angeles, CA— Oil companies and other big corporations base their operations on a model of privatizing the profits — and socializing the losses. That was definitely the case yesterday when the California Resources Corporation (CRC) announced the...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 09:12 AM PST
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A lawsuit filed September 15 in San Francisco Superior Court by Attorney General Rob Bonta accuses Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute of mounting a “disinformation campaign” beginning in the 1950s "to...
by ybruti
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 11:36 AM PDT
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NEW YORK – On September 16, Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that California is suing Big Oil “for more than 50 years of deception, cover-up, and damage that have cost California taxpayers billions of dollars in health and...
by Dan Bacher
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on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 11:03 AM PDT
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For as long as it has known that its product causes climate change (decades), Shell has been on the cutting edge of the oil industry's many attempts to greenwash its products by making cringey appeals to the youth. Cognizant of millennials’ and Gen Z’s...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 05:58 AM PDT
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As fossil fuel executives join the rest of us currently choking on the ash of old growth forests being consumed in the apocalyptic conflagrations directly linked to their actions, we must never forget: THEY KNEW. THEY KNEW in 1959, when famed physicist...
by Haricot Blue
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on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 01:44 PM PDT
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So, I was bored all day Friday and decided to go ahead and doodle this on my computer to keep my mind occupied. I could not help but to chuckle at it once I finished it because not only did it turn out extremely good, but it perfectly describes big oil...
by Miles Estrelle
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on Fri Jun 02, 2023 at 11:00 PM PDT
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www.theguardian.com/… The US supreme court on Monday declined to hear bids by major oil companies to move a growing wave of climate lawsuits from state courts to federal courts. The appeals to move the venue of the lawsuits were made by Exxon Mobil...
by senorjoel
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on Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 04:38 PM PDT
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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The House Committee on Oversight and Reform released findings from an investigation into Big Oil companies showing that giants like Chevron, BP, Shell, and Exxon will seemingly do everything they can to keep the U.S. reliant on fossil fuels—no matter...
by April Siese
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on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 03:54 PM PST
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Internal Documents Show the Industry Is Making Long-Term Fossil Fuel Investments As They “Resist and Block” Climate Regulation Washington, D.C. (Dec. 9, 2022)— Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Ro...
by Dan Bacher
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on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 09:42 AM PST
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President Joe Biden has once again challenged oil and gas companies making record profits but doing little to alleviate consumer concerns at the pump. During a Monday White House press conference, the president called for those companies to increase...
by April Siese
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on Mon Oct 31, 2022 at 02:20 PM PDT
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It’s become so commonplace for me to write up the bad actions of oil and gas CEOs who—without fail—continue to build on their pristine track records of doing the exact wrong thing, that I had multiple photos of Exxon CEO Darren Woods to choose from for...
by April Siese
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on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 11:09 AM PDT
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Pity poor Shell, the oil and gas giant that couldn’t quite price-gouge its way into yet another record-breaking quarter of profits. Reuters reports that Shell didn’t reach the same heights as the gains it reported in the second quarter of the year,...
by April Siese
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on Thu Oct 27, 2022 at 11:25 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck and Rise ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 09:00 PM PDT
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A leaked admission from a now-fired ExxonMobil lobbyist has apparently inspired Democrats on both the Natural Resources Committee and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to add publicists to their purview as they investigate Big Oil’s climate...
by April Siese
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on Tue Jun 14, 2022 at 10:31 AM PDT
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ExxonMobil must go to trial over its downplaying of the climate crisis and its role in hastening it, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found on Tuesday. The 18-page ruling strikes down Exxon’s claims that its free speech was being silenced by...
by April Siese
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on Wed May 25, 2022 at 02:16 PM PDT
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On Tuesday afternoon, an Axios reporter tweeted about Fox News’ verified account on Truth Social, Donald Trump’s social media platform. Shares in the disastrous tech endeavor spiked, and then that Axios reporter deleted the tweet. According to Axios,...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 15, 2022 at 11:16 AM PDT
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When the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing on skyrocketing gas prices kicked off on Wednesday, there was no denying the tension between lawmakers demanding accountability from oil and gas executives and the very leaders who declined to...
by April Siese
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on Thu Apr 07, 2022 at 08:16 AM PDT
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