Fossil Fuels

Data Centers Are Fueling The Lobbying Industry

November 8, 2025 Carolyn Neugarten, Scheer Post. Educate! Data Centers, Fossil Fuels, Lobbying, Regulations

From the farmlands of Northern Virginia to the industrial parks of New Jersey, massive new data centers are popping up across the country to power America’s artificial intelligence revolution. The energy needed to power these data centers is driving national energy usage to record levels, and these costs are falling on American households as soaring electricity consumption has translated into higher home utility bills, as well as health and environmental risks. As the demand for computing power increases, the technology, utility and finance industries have poured millions into supporting the policies and resource allotment they need to expand data centers.

Climate Justice At The University: Integrating Struggles For Liberation

November 4, 2025 Semine Long-Callesen, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Activism

Universities are not simply places for learning and research but are also centers of power and influence that can shape society. This idea about the power of higher education is cemented over and over again in the panel conversation between Fernando Racimo, Associate Professor of Molecular Ecology and Evolution at the University of Copenhagen and Jennie Stephens, Professor of Climate Change at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. They met at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen to discuss the state of university institutions in the context of the urgent climate crisis.

Action Alert: Keep Our Highways Safe From Hazardous Materials

November 1, 2025 Truckers Movement for Justice, Earth Justice. Resist! Fossil Fuels, Hazardous Waste, Truckers, Workplace Safety

Every day, oil and gas companies haul potentially hazardous materials from oilfields onto our highways without following adequate safety rules, thanks to lack of federal enforcement. This is putting truckers and communities at greater risk of catastrophe. Join Earthjustice and our client, Truckers Movement for Justice, to demand that Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies enforce existing hazardous material rules when it comes to hauling oilfield waste. The waste that is created during the fracking and extraction process is often toxic, radioactive, or highly flammable, but because laws are not properly enforced, the waste is not being classified as hazardous materials.

Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws

October 31, 2025 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. Educate! Fossil Fuels, LNG, pollution, Regulations, Trump Administration

During the past five years, all seven of the fully operational LNG export terminals in the U.S. violated the Clean Air Act, America’s cornerstone law on air pollution, a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds. The report comes as the Trump administration has moved to accelerate the approval of new export terminals to sell more U.S. LNG around the world, particularly to Asia and Europe. Several major terminals rarely, if ever, managed to spend a full quarter in compliance with environmental laws over the past three years, the report found.

Tacoma Organizations Protest LNG Plant

October 18, 2025 Danielle Krizic, Fight Back! News. Resist! climate crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, LNG, Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma, WA – On October 14, a group of several dozen Tacoma activists gathered in the sunset of Fireman's Park to oppose the expansion of the city’s liquid natural gas (LNG) plant. The event was organized by a broad coalition of Black, brown, indigenous, and other liberation movement groups, led by the of the Coast Salish Water Warriors (WW). Speaker Marilyn Kimmerling with Climate Alliance of the South Sound (CASS) explained that the LNG facility near the Port of Tacoma is both a refinery and storage place. The oil travels from across the country through underground pipelines to the LNG plant at Tacoma’s tide flats.

Oil Pipeline Threatens Catastrophe For Tribes In Michigan – Again

October 14, 2025 Frances Madeson, Truthout. Resist! Environment, Fossil Fuels, Indigenous Peoples Day, Pipelines, Water

This Indigenous Peoples Day, the approximately 2,700 Ojibwe tribal members of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan are marking the holiday amid fear that their region could face another environmental catastrophe like the one that occurred in 2010, when Enbridge’s Line 6B oil pipeline burst and spilled over a million gallons of tar sands crude oil, contaminating the Kalamazoo River and over 40 miles in its watershed. Today, the community is afraid that an even more potentially devastating event is looming: a future rupture of another Enbridge relic, the antiquated 72-year-old Line 5 pipeline, which originates and ends in Canada but travels across Wisconsin and Michigan, and crucially, through the Great Lakes under the Straits of Mackinac.

On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fume As Insurers Hike Rates

October 14, 2025 Marcus Baram, DeSmog. Educate! Energy, Fossil Fuels, Health Insurers, LNG, Louisiana

“I’ve never seen it this bad.” Eddie LeJuine has been fishing and shrimping along the southwestern coast of Louisiana for about four decades. The garrulous 62-year-old can talk for hours about the best fishing spots and the quiet moments at dusk when the ospreys glide through the marshes. He’s raised a family in Cameron Parish, the heel of the boot, as the state is known, with five kids and 10 grandchildren, one of whom just joined the local sheriff’s office. But his life and livelihood have been upended in recent years by the proliferation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the region — once the largest producer of seafood in the entire country. The LNG activity has devastated the environment and polluted the water, leading to significant declines in catches for fishermen.

As Trump Crushes Climate Efforts, Local Projects Persevere

October 5, 2025 Greg Harman, Portside. Organize! Austerity, climate crisis, Community activism, Fossil Fuels, Trump Administration

Standing before the United Nations last week, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed long-held animosity for the body dating back decades to when his company was apparently rejected for a renovations gig. Trump swore he would have delivered mahogany walls and marble floors to the tower. And now look at the state of the place, he grumbled. “You walk on terrazzo. Do you notice that?” Something far worse than composite flooring is in store for nations that fail to rally to Trump’s hypernationalism, anti-immigrant fervor, and fawning embrace of fossil fuels. “Your countries are going to hell,” he said, apparently addressing his comments primarily to the “English-speaking world.”

Renewables Are A Global Economic Engine, Not A Culture War Threat

October 5, 2025 Mitch Anderson, DeSmog. Educate! Canada, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Solar power

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith boasted in June that a private sector proponent for a new bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s coast would come forward “within weeks.” Three months have passed and exactly zero companies have bet their own money to back up the pipeline hype constantly coming from Smith. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the first tranche of infrastructure projects to be fast tracked by the federal government, which also conspicuously included no bitumen pipelines. What gives? It is almost as if the oil industry does not share the giddy enthusiasm of the Alberta government for somehow doubling the province’s heavy oil production. Perhaps companies have been reading recent news, which has not been good for those still believing that oil prices and demand would justify billions in long-term investments.

No, The US Doesn’t Need Fossil Fuels To Win ‘An AI Arms Race’

September 28, 2025 Joe Fassler, DeSmog. Educate! Artificial Intelligence, China, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy

As the U.S. braces for a surge in artificial intelligence (AI)–related electricity demand, the natural gas industry has a message for the public: Fossil fuels must power the future’s data centers, the computer-filled warehouses where AI models like ChatGPT primarily train and deploy. A range of oil and gas industry groups and industry-friendly nonprofits are making the case that AI’s growing hunger for power requires a robust fossil-energy scale-up, DeSmog has found. This massive deployment of dirty power is a national security necessity, they say. And Trump administration officials have embraced this message. But experts on renewable energy economics and deployment say this narrative is misleading. They posit that a new era of gas-powered data centers is neither necessary nor inevitable.

Activists Target Starmer’s Back Yard Over Toxic Fossil Fuel Project

September 7, 2025 Willem Moore, The Canary. Resist! Fossil Fuels, Keir Starmer, Rosebank, United Kingdom (UK)

On Saturday 6 September, activists protested against Rosebank, the UK’s largest untapped oil field. Describing it as “toxic”, Fossil Free London (FFL) have warned that even ignoring the climate concerns, drilling Rosebank would be financially detrimental to UK citizens. They’ve also highlighted the links Fossil Free London drew attention to the protest in the London Borough of Camden, which is where you find Starmer’s constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. The group said in a press release: The action in Camden saw over a hundred activists gather outside council buildings in Sir Keir Starmer’s constituency with a giant melting planet earth ice-cream, as part of a coordinated effort across the country to send a clear message to the Prime Minister: pull the plug on the toxic Rosebank field for good.

Join Michigan Tribal Nations In Opposing Line 5 Tunnel

August 29, 2025 Native News Online. Resist! Fossil Fuels, Indigenous Activism, Michigan, Pipelines, Water Protectors

Canadian oil corporation Enbridge is proposing a massive, six-year construction project to build a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac—a location of immense ecological, cultural, and spiritual significance. The plan includes installing towering 400-foot cranes, flooding the area with round-the-clock artificial lighting, and disrupting one of the most pristine freshwater environments in North America. The consequences would be severe. Critical fish habitats would be destroyed, access to fishing—both commercial and subsistence—would be limited, and the construction site would cast light pollution across a designated dark sky park. The towering machinery would be visible from iconic landmarks like Mackinac Island.

The Global Plastics Treaty Process Has Fallen Flat

August 20, 2025 Melanie MacGregor, The Conversation. Educate! Environment, Fossil Fuels, Plastics, United Nations

Progress towards a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, ran overtime. It’s likely to conclude this evening, without agreement. This is an incredibly disappointing result. As a member of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, I was hoping for action to genuinely curb plastic pollution. Our priorities included considering the whole life cycle rather than just disposal, setting targets to reduce plastic production, and regulating the use of harmful additives to reduce risks to human health. Unfortunately, vested interests hijacked the negotiations.

Launching A Global Campaign Against The Insurers Of Israel’s Genocide

August 13, 2025 The Canary. Resist! AIG, AXA, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Genocide, Insurance, International Solidarity, Israel, Palestine

This September, activist groups across five continents plan to strike two of the world’s most powerful insurance companies: AXA and AIG. Together, they are launching a powerful wave of global resistance with a synchronised campaign of disruption. The aim is to expose the companies’ role in fueling genocide, climate destruction, and social collapse. Under the banner ‘Insure Our Survival‘, thousands of campaigners in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas will take action from 8 September. Organisers are calling the wave of action a “coordinated global backlash” against the insurance giants underwriting fossil fuel expansion and weapons war criminal states are using in mass atrocities – particularly in Palestine.

New York Finalizes Rule For New Buildings To Be Electric

August 5, 2025 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Create! climate crisis, Electrification, Fossil Fuels, New York (NY), Urban Design

New York is now the first state in the U.S. to require new buildings to be built entirely electric, without hookups to fossil fuels including gas, the New York State Assembly reported. The rule was initially passed in 2023 as the All-Electric Buildings Act and was finalized with the State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council’s approval in late July 2025. According to the new mandate, residential buildings up to seven stories tall and commercial or industrial buildings up to 100,000 square feet with building permit applications for initial construction approved on or after Dec. 31, 2025 will be required to meet the requirements by that date.

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