Oil was the “black gold” of the last century, and lithium might be called the “white gold” or “silvery-white gold” of this century. (No one calls it that, but that’s okay.) So, it’s only fitting that Exxon is planning to extract and sell some of this white gold now. In … [continued]
Oil companies are benefiting from public subsidies for carbon capture and blue hydrogen technologies that don’t work.
Donald Trump has made a prophet out of Bruce Cain, a political scientist at Stanford. Four weeks ago, he told New York Times contributor Thomas Edsall that some of the conservative victories in campaign finance law — particularly Citizens United — have strengthened “the power of elected officials to coerce … [continued]
Climate advocates argued for a national research program as early as 1971 when Richard Nixon was in office. It never happened.
Fossil fuel interests are perfectly willing to lie and distort information in order to protect their profits.
Exxon is asking a federal court to protect it from a shareholder motion by Follow This that asks it to reduce its Scope Three emissions.
Electric vehicle sales continue to grow faster than most people expected, even faster than professional analysts in the field expected, and — surprise, surprise — they’ve grown much faster than oil companies have forecasted. That’s one of the big takeaways from BloombergNEF’s latest Zero-Emission Vehicles Factbook. In the forecasts used … [continued]
In case you haven’t caught wind of the hottest new show on YouTube, it’s Jo Borras and me talking about electric vehicles! Jo has decades of experience in the EV world, and even deeper history in the auto world. I’ve been covering the EV sector for more than a decade … [continued]
ExxonMobil has just announced that it aims to be a top lithium producer and supplier for the electric vehicle (EV) battery industry by 2030, and it is just now getting to work on its first lithium well. This first lithium production site is in southwest Arkansas, which is a lithium-rich region. … [continued]
New zinc bromine flow batteries take center stage in the long duration energy storage field, while adding to the list of things that Exxon knew about.
