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Fossil Fuel-Tied PR Agency Supporting United Nations Climate Conference

September 10, 2026 T. J. Jordan, DeSmog. , , ,
New York-based public relations agency Teneo is advising the organisers of this November’s United Nations COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkey, despite its close ties to the fossil fuel industry. The same agency came under fire two years ago for promoting COP29 host nation Azerbaijan as a climate champion, even as the country was expanding oil and gas production. The previous year, Teneo earned $1.6 million advising the oil-rich United Arab Emirates on its leadership of COP28 — a fee paid for by the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) via its renewables arm Masdar.

People Are Taking Power For Climate Action Through Green Amendments

August 17, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , , ,
As the climate crisis intensifies, bringing extreme weather events, fires, droughts and flooding to our communities, and governments refuse to take effective action, a growing movement is amending state Constitutions to codify the right to clean air and water and a healthy environment. Clearing the FOG speaks with the founder of the Green Amendments For The Generations campaign, Maya van Rossum. An environmental lawyer, van Rossum explains how communities can win these amendments and use them to change the legal system that currently legalizes the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. She also talks about how Green Amendments strengthen the fights against data centers.

Climate Scientists Issue Urgent Warning To UK Government

August 15, 2026 Abi Perrin, The Canary. , , , ,
A fifth heatwave is hitting us. Wildfires are overwhelming the fire brigade’s capacity to respond. Drought is devastating harvests. The impacts of a fossil-fueled Climate Emergency are more visible than ever, yet signals from the government suggest they’ll support Shell & Equinor’s plans to drill for new oil and gas. Against this backdrop, in their starkest warning yet, the UK’s top climate scientists have written to the new energy secretary, urging her to protect lives and livelihoods above polluters’ profits. I’m writing this early in the morning, curtains drawn, knowing that in a few hours’ time it’ll be too hot here – in a shaded terrace in the North of England – for me to get these words out coherently.

Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny As Court Battle Looms

August 3, 2026 Rebecca John, DeSmog. , , , ,
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.”  Commissioned by Shell, the memo was the first in a series of secret reports by Lovelock for the UK oil giant exploring the “large scale atmospheric effects” of burning fossil fuels. Sixty years later, evidence of Shell’s early knowledge of the climate impacts of its activities is being thrown into the spotlight by a first-of-its kind civil lawsuit, filed last December at the Royal Court of Justice in London. 

Louisiana Weakened Community Air Monitoring As Industry Pushed Back

July 27, 2026 Ruth Milka, NationofChange. , , , , ,
In Louisiana’s petrochemical belt, some of the people most exposed to toxic air have the least information about what they are breathing. A new investigation by the nonprofit newsroom Floodlight, produced in partnership with The Guardian and with contributions from the Louisiana Illuminator, finds that the state’s public air monitors are frequently located miles from major industrial polluters and fail to test for some of the most dangerous chemicals released along the corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as “Cancer Alley,” is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.

China’s Oil Strategy And What The West Leaves Out

July 23, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. , , , ,
There has been an abundance of information around China’s oil strategy of recent, some of it sensible, most of it unremarkably a part of the western led China-bashing package, and as a whole, the glut of analysis has all been quite confusing. That confusion should not be surprising considering our political climate. China is responding to an international economic system experiencing the United State’s own existential instability. Washington has increasingly treated tariffs, sanctions, financial restrictions, and executive orders as instruments of economic statecraft.

The Global Food Crisis

July 22, 2026 Ruben Bauer Naveira, Black Agenda Report. , , , , ,
This article is a warning. A global food crisis is likely approaching — driven by the collapse of supply chains feeding the agri-food system, a consequence of the war against Iran and the resulting blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The prospect has gone largely unnoticed by most political and economic actors. Supply crises, as a rule, are resolved through the Law of Supply and Demand. When supply falls, prices rise; those who can afford to pay grumble but pay, while those who cannot find a cheaper substitute. Or do without. But we are talking about food — and food is indispensable to life.

Activists Throw Wet Blanket On FERC’s ‘Blanket Certificate Policy’ Changes

July 22, 2026 Phil Pasquini, LA Progressive. , , , , ,
As they have for the past decade, the environmental activist group Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE), along with other frontline groups, has protested, demonstrated, and attended the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) monthly public meetings at the Washington, DC headquarters to bring before the commission their concerns regarding an end to fossil fuel expansion. Before the July 16 meeting, BXE members began an early morning sit-in to protest FERC’s proposed blanket certificate policy changes. Activists blocked the building’s garage entrance where they disrupted access as arriving workers and commission members were turned away.

Republicans Trying To Give Big Oil Immunity For Causing Climate Chaos

July 22, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. , , , ,
The science used to attribute extreme weather events to climate change has advanced remarkably in recent years, allowing policy makers, judges, and the public to see clear links between disasters and the fossil fuel emissions driving climate crisis. Now, as the links become clearer, oil and gas lobbyists are scrambling to shield the industry from a wave of lawsuits and state laws seeking to hold profiteers accountable for the damage that burning fossil fuels causes to communities and public health.

Campaigners Disrupt Event Demanding Venues Stop Hosting Fossil Fuel Firms

July 16, 2026 The Canary. , , ,
Amidst the third heat storm of this year, campaigners demanded an end to London venues hosting events for fossil fuel companies. Fossil Free London campaigners disrupted inside the QEII Centre in Westminster while the venue hosted its annual Summer Showcase. This is an invitation-only event marketed to the events industry where companies can find suitable locations for their corporate events. In protest over London venues hosting oil and gas events, five campaigners entered the 40th birthday party event at the QEII Centre and disrupted the event. They requested to give a birthday speech within the DJ booth.

Exxon’s Lawyer Joining DOJ Division That Dubs Itself ‘Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Firm’

July 14, 2026 Rachel Santarsiero, DeSmog. , , , ,
“In one of the executive orders, President Trump described the coal industry as beautiful,” said Robert L. Levy, ExxonMobil’s executive counsel, at a 2025 event organized by the Federalist Society.  “No such reference to the beauty of the oil and gas side of the industry,” he went on, “but we are very appreciative of the support that the administration has given.” Now Levy is poised to help lead the Trump administration’s efforts to protect companies like Exxon from climate lawsuits. In a mid-June social media post, Levy announced that he was leaving his job at Exxon to take an environmental litigation role at the Justice Department, in a division that calls itself the nation’s environmental lawyer and the largest environmental law firm in the country

Extreme Heat Takes Farming To The Brink

July 11, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. , , , ,
Ever since the landmark Paris ’15 UN climate agreement wherein 195 nations agreed to cut fossil fuel CO2 emissions via NDCs 30% to 60% by 2030, the opposite has happened. It’s now ten (10) years since Paris ’15, and according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have reached an all-time high, peaking at an average of 432.3 ppm in May 2026. This is the opposite of what the parties agreed to do and based upon current and proposed cuts, Paris ’15 is dead. The nations of the world have failed. Their failure is now showing up in climate change

Pennsylvania’s Petrochemical ‘Renaissance’ Hasn’t Panned Out

July 11, 2026 Sarah Hofmann, DeSmog. , , ,
Over a decade ago, Shell announced it would build a major petrochemical complex on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, lured to the state by historic public incentives amid what was hailed as the coming of a new petrochemical corridor outside the Gulf Coast. At the time, local and state leaders hoped the massive facility, drawing on cheap shale gas drilled nearby to produce the feedstock for plastics, would bring economic growth and thousands of jobs to the Ohio River region in western Pennsylvania. The corridor never materialized. Instead, Beaver County’s economy continues to fall behind, according to a new report from the Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) published Wednesday and a June report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

Colorado Cut $11.4 Million In Penalties For Oil Firms Submitting Fake Cleanup Data

July 9, 2026 Sarah Hofmann, DeSmog. , , , ,
After a nearly two-year inquiry, Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) approved deals allowing firms owned by its largest oil and gas companies to avoid the majority of assessed penalties for falsified data submitted by their contractors. Collectively, the oil firms stand to pay roughly $2 million, less than 15 percent of the original millions in proposed penalties. ECMC’s lone dissenting commissioner called the fraudulent data a “deep violation of the public trust.” Christiaan van Woudenberg, an Erie, Colorado, resident turned anti-fracking activist who works with community groups like Erie Protectors, likewise criticized the agreements.

Activists Drop ‘Stop Line 5’ Banner From Stone Arch Bridge

July 7, 2026 Akičita Šuŋka-Wakaŋ Ska, Unicorn Riot. , , , , ,
Minneapolis, MN — Stop Line 5 activists dropped a huge banner that read “Stop Line 5” from the Stone Arch Bridge, which spans across the Mississippi River on Tuesday morning and called on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to “Deny the Line 5 tunnel permits.” One of Enbridge’s two contentious oil pipeline construction proposals for Line 5 includes tunneling across the Straits of Mackinac, a sacred land to the Anishinaabe people of the Bay Mills Indian Community, who’ve banned the project. The Line 5 permit would use horizontal directional drilling for a planned 21‑foot‑wide concrete tunnel beneath the straits, which split Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
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