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Oil giants transfer record wealth to their investors

08 February 2024
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Fuelling oppression

07 February 2024
Fossil Fuels

Oil and gas companies in the ‘Decarbonisation Pact’ plan to torch 60% of remaining carbon budget

26 January 2024
Fossil Fuels

Russian oil, Ukrainian steel: How two companies owned by one of Britain's richest men trade with both Moscow and Kyiv

21 January 2024
Fossil Fuels

UK’s North Sea fossil fuel exports have soared despite licencing bonanza

19 January 2024
Fossil Fuels

COP29 host country priming the pumps for a huge hike in gas production

08 January 2024
Fossil Fuels

Bad Case of Déjà Vu as Former Oil Executive to Lead COP29 Climate Negotiations in Azerbaijan

05 January 2024
Fossil Fuels

The US moves to fix a sanctions loophole - and further support Ukraine

14 December 2023
Fossil Fuels

COP28 host UAE invites fossil fuel bosses set to produce 25 billion barrels of oil this decade

11 December 2023
Land and Environmental Defenders

Climate of fear

04 December 2023
Fossil Fuels

French giant TotalEnergies implicated in intimidation of communities affected by controversial oil pipeline

04 December 2023
Fossil Fuels

COP28 president Sultan Al-Jaber’s company will become the second largest oil producer on Earth

02 December 2023
Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuel lobbyists attend UN climate talks more than 7000 times as part of decades-long campaign to influence climate action

21 November 2023
Fossil Fuels

What is carbon capture and storage? CCS easily explained

17 November 2023
Fossil Fuels

American purchases of laundered Russian oil worth at least $180 million to the Kremlin

16 November 2023
Fossil Fuels

Russian oil on EU soil: Bulgarian refinery skirts sanctions and buys Russian crude worth an estimated €1.1 billion in tax to the Kremlin

09 November 2023
Fossil Fuels

Oil firms bankroll Azerbaijan’s warring regime with billions in fossil fuel money

08 November 2023
Fossil Fuels

King's Speech: UK refineries could reject up to half of North Sea Oil by 2035

07 November 2023
Fossil Fuels

Q3 Chevron’s $20 billion 2023 shareholder payout eclipses renewables investment 20x

27 October 2023
Fossil Fuels

TotalEnergies Q3: Pays Shareholders a Massive €25 Billion since Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine

26 October 2023
Fossil Fuels

BAFTA-winning oil executive outshone by Greta Thunberg at £1 trillion London oil conference

19 October 2023
Forests

Global Witness and COP28: People not Polluters

06 October 2023
Fossil Fuels

COP28 oil company ADNOC emissions heading in exact opposite way for climate goal

04 October 2023
Fossil Fuels

Five western oil firms, including BP and Shell, set to spend $15 million every hour until 2030 producing oil and gas

02 October 2023
Fossil Fuels

As the UK approves Rosebank, new polling finds a majority of UK adults prefer renewables over oil for national security, lower bills

27 September 2023
Fossil Fuels

The digital drill: How big oil is using AI to speed up fossil fuel extraction

21 September 2023
Fossil Fuels

EU imports of Russian LNG have jumped by 40% since the invasion of Ukraine

30 August 2023
Fossil Fuels

UK purchases of Russian-origin jet fuel worth at least £40m to the Kremlin

25 August 2023
Fossil Fuels

Billboards across London reveal an estimated 1 in 20 UK flights running on Russian oil

21 August 2023
Fossil Fuels

Five western oil firms to use 1/8 of world's carbon budget by 2050

15 August 2023
Fossil Fuels

COP28 President’s "hypocritical" oil firm failing to acknowledge full extent of their carbon footprint

11 August 2023
Fossil Fuels

BP boss Bernard Looney spotted topless outside Downing Street as Fossil Fuel Bosses Meet with Government

02 August 2023

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