Fossil Fuels

36 Companies Drove Half The World’s Climate-Altering Emissions In 2023

March 9, 2025 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. Educate! Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Corporations, Fossil Fuels, Polluters

Half of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2023 came from just three dozen companies, according to a new report released today by the Carbon Majors project, with the list dominated by coal, cement, and oil producers. Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Aramco, the year’s worst offender, drove 4.4 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found. Five publicly-traded oil companies — ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies, and BP — combined to produce an additional 4.9 percent of the year’s global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the report adds.

Fossil Fuel Industry Wants To Keep New Buildings Dependent On Gas

February 27, 2025 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. Educate! Energy, Fossil Fuels, Gas Industry, Politics and Policy, Report

A new report from InfluenceMap reveals the fossil fuel industry has been waging an international lobbying war to prevent cities and towns from requiring newly built homes and businesses to install climate-friendly heating and other appliances. So far, 26 U.S. states have passed laws designed to prevent towns, cities, and other local governments from crafting new “natural gas bans” or enforcing those laws, according to the report. The analysis shows how utilities and their trade associations have pushed to take away local government’s power to phase out fossil fuel appliances or to limit new buildings’ connections to natural gas pipelines.

Energy East Pipeline Revival: Why Canada Shouldn’t Waste Billions

February 25, 2025 Mitch Anderson, DeSmog. Educate! Canada, climate crisis, Donald Trump, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines, Trade Wars

Like zombies rising from the grave, many long-rejected oil pipeline projects like Energy East are suddenly being promoted as national necessities in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings about annexing Canada. To be clear, most Canadians agree that Canada needs to take Trump’s threats seriously and accelerate long-overdue efforts to make our country less economically dependent on our newly menacing neighbour. Previous political impediments to building interprovincial infrastructure are melting away as Canadians realize protecting our national sovereignty is more important than the priorities of any given region or industry. But before the country considers writing another blank cheque for an oil industry mega-project that may take a decade to complete, let’s make sure to “skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.”

Join Groups In Houston Fighting Against Oil And Gas Billionaires!

February 22, 2025 People Vs Fossil Fuels, Popular Resistance. Resist! Big Oil and Gas, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Houston

Every year in Houston, the CEOs of the world’s most polluting oil and gas companies gather for a massive industry conference called CERA Week, where they conspire on new ways to increase their profits while continuing to harm our communities with their toxic products. We are witnessing in real time the results of unchecked corporate greed from oil and gas CEOs. We are seeing the destruction of raging wildfires, powerful hurricanes, and extreme flooding impacting communities across our country and the globe, caused by the continued burning of fossil fuels.

Chaos In London As McKinsey & Co Targeted By Extinction Rebellion

February 18, 2025 The Canary. Resist! climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, London, United Kingdom (UK)

On Monday 17 February, Extinction Rebellion climate activists occupied McKinsey & Co and its London headquarters to demand it cuts all ties to its fossil fuel industry clients and starts putting planet before profit. Dozens of police arrived on the scene and arrested four campaigners, including two who were stood outside the building holding a banner. The protest began at midday when activists sprayed fake crude oil over the building’s glass and steel exterior. A group of climbers scaled the entrance portico, lighting up smoke flares and unfurling a massive banner reading, “McKinsey & Company: Cut the Ties to Fossil Fuels”.

Another University Just Ditched Fossil Fuel And Arms Companies

February 16, 2025 The Canary. Resist! Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Activism, Victory, Weapons Maker

Arts University Bournemouth has announced it will boycott fossil fuel industry recruitment, implementing a new Ethical Careers Policy. The university has now excluded oil, gas, and arms industries from attending careers fairs or advertising vacancies through the university’s Careers and Enterprise Service. Arts University Bournemouth is now the 11th UK university to end fossil fuel recruitment on campus, following a wave of student pressure for universities across the UK to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry over environmental and social justice concerns.

Canada OKs ‘Massive’ $20 Billion Loan For Trans-Mountain Pipeline

February 10, 2025 Taylor Noakes, DeSmog. Educate! Canada, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, TransMountain Pipeline

The Canadian government quietly approved a staggering $20 billion loan to support the Trans-Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. According to Canadian environmental advocacy organization Environmental Defence, this raises the Canadian government’s total financial commitment to the pipeline to $50 billion, drawing sharp criticism from environmentalists and economists. “At a time when Canada should be accelerating its clean energy transition, providing $20 billion in public financing for the TMX pipeline is a step in the wrong direction,” Laura Cameron, a policy advisor with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) who specializes in fossil fuel subsidies, told DeSmog in an email.

Protesters Blockade DNC Party Meeting

February 1, 2025 Zach D. Roberts, DeSmog. Resist! climate crisis, Democrats, DNC, Fossil Fuels

Spurred on by the recent wildfires in Los Angeles that experts say were climate-change related, the activist group Climate Defiance held a protest on January 31 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C., against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), calling on it to get dirty fossil fuel money out of Democratic politics forever. The protest started inside the resort’s main atrium with a three-story banner drop from a hotel room that said, “Oil $$$ Out of the DNC.” Dozens of protesters then marched around the hotel’s ground floor, chanting, “Which side are you on?” and “We need clean air, not another billionaire.”

Over 1000 People Block The Strand Outside Hearing For Just Stop Oil

January 31, 2025 Just Stop Oil. Resist! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Just Stop Oil, Legal System, United Kingdom (UK)

Over a thousand people have taken part in a peaceful demonstration blocking the road outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Inside, the appeal against the draconian sentences given to 16 Just Stop Oil supporters last year is continuing. The mass appeal concerns 16 supporters with combined sentences of 41 years handed down between July and September 2024. [1] [2] All 16 Just Stop Oil supporters were jailed in the months following the publication of a report to the government written by ‘Lord Walney’, a paid lobbyist for the oil and arms industry that called for groups such as Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action to be banned in a similar way to terrorist organisations.

Alberta’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement Strategy Doesn’t Apply To Polluters

January 26, 2025 Mitch Anderson, DeSmog. Educate! Accountability, Canada, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Politics and Policy, Regulations

“Alberta is taking a zero-tolerance approach to crime,” bragged Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in 2023 on social media after her government announced more enforcement, greater emphasis on public safety, and limited discretion of prosecutors to let offenders off the hook. “ “There is an increasing sense that the system is not holding criminals properly accountable and letting the public suffer the consequences,” chimed in Alberta Minister of Justice Mickey Amery during the announcement. “This is simply unacceptable.” If only the governing United Conservative Party applied those laudable principles to oil sands companies that repeatedly flout legal requirements not to pollute waterways, air and land.

New York Climate Activists Show A Powerful Path Forward

January 25, 2025 Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Accountability, climate crisis, Extreme weather, Fossil Fuels, New York (NY)

On the evening of Dec. 10, 12 self-identified elder climate activists sat around the Christmas tree in the New York State Capitol, in Albany, singing carols as they waited to be arrested. The protesters, who were there to support New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, had been told by police they would face criminal misdemeanor trespass charges if they stayed put. “Normally, for a protest like this, we’d expect to be written a citation rather than charged with a misdemeanor,” said Michael Richardson of Third Act Upstate New York, which helped plan the civil disobedience.

Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network

January 22, 2025 Adam Barnett, DeSmog. Educate! climate crisis, Donald Trump, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Politics and Policy, Science Denial

As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming to 1.5C and curb the worst effects of climate change are doomed. At the start of 2025, Trump’s “government efficiency” chief Elon Musk (who donated $250 million to Trump’s campaign), pushed grooming gangs to the top of the UK political agenda – with the help of Conservative and Reform UK politicians, and their allies in the media.

Climate Activists Protest Over Role Of Oil Firms At World Economic Forum

January 18, 2025 Al Jazeera. Resist! climate crisis, Davos, Fossil Fuels, World Economic Forum

Scores of climate activists have gathered in Davos to protest against the role of big oil companies at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and demand stronger action to tackle the climate crisis. The annual meeting of global business and political leaders in Switzerland starts on Monday. It will be attended by some 1,500 business leaders, including major energy firms like BP, Chevron and Saudi Aramco. “We are demanding concrete and real climate action,” said Nicolas Siegrist, the 26-year-old organiser of the protest, who also heads the Young Socialists party in Switzerland.

Climate Protesters Storm Phillips 66 Facility Over Recent Wildfires

January 17, 2025 Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times. Resist! climate crisis, Climate finance, Fossil Fuels, Los Angeles, Wildfires

Dozens of climate protesters with Sunrise Movement LA rallied outside Phillips 66’s Los Angeles Lubricant Terminal on Thursday morning, with 16 demonstrators storming the facility’s office building. As Los Angeles reels from what is projected to be one of the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history, the youth climate activist group says big oil companies are culpable, by emitting greenhouse gases while internally acknowledging the practice’s link to climate change, which, in turn, has worsened wildfires in California. Sunrise Movement LA is demanding big oil companies, including Phillips 66, “pay up” to support wildfire relief and aid the state’s transition to clean energy.

As The World Heats Up, FERC Cools Regulations

January 17, 2025 Phil Pasquini, IndyBay. Resist! climate crisis, Donald Trump, FERC, Fossil Fuels

Washington, DC – For the past 10 years a group of resolute environmental activists from Beyond Extreme Energy, Third Act and others have been attending and protesting at the monthly public meetings of FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission). Each month the climate change activists stand vigilant outside the Commissions FERC headquarters building before each meeting, protesting, picketing and greeting attendees, calling their attention to concerns and informing passersby on how the commissions decisions exacerbate the global climate crisis.

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