November 2nd, 2020 | by Vijay Govindan
Given the US president's pro fossil fuel behavior, the question is simple: How come he has done major damage to ExxonMobil and Big Oil? I can't answer that directly, but I can show how severe the damage has been
October 1st, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
These are sad days in the oil patch. US fossil fuel firms eliminated about 105,000 positions — roughly 20 percent of their workforce — between March and June, according to Accenture. BW Research Partnership puts the job losses at 118,000 between March and July
September 22nd, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
In a new article by the Houston Chronicle, the author penned his thoughts on how Tesla's "Texas takeover" would impact oil-dependent Houston
August 3rd, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
OPEC is beginning to see the writing on the wall. Demand for oil is declining and may never recover. That's good news for the Earth.
June 2nd, 2020 | by Gerard Reid
The oil and gas industry has been in a recession, effectively since the global financial crisis 11 years ago. Each year, production volumes have increased by more than global demand, meaning that the market has been in decline, with lower prices for crude oil and natural gas the natural result
April 23rd, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
We should not bail out oil companies. But we probably will since Trump is scrambling to do just that. As we know, the price of oil in the US fell below zero for the first time ever the other day
April 21st, 2020 | by Daryl Elliott
Yesterday, the price of oil dropped below the $0 line. For the first time in history, the price was negative. Bloomberg reports that the price reached minus $37.63 per barrel. This means oil companies are paying people to haul oil away because they have so much of it, more is on the way, and they have to make room for the new oil deliveries already en route
March 16th, 2020 | by NRDC
We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the British Petroleum (BP) disaster, which killed 11 men, injured 17 others, and spilled more than 130 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico
March 4th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
Recent reports show that political appointees at the Department of the Interior (DOI) ignored experts who opposed issuing a rule rolling back safety measures for offshore oil rig workers
December 31st, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Given the accelerating effects of climate breakdown — established by scientific consensus and visible with our own eyes — it is rational for investors to expect much tighter carbon regulation in the near future
June 7th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Many have wondered why the mainstream press coverage of Tesla is so relentlessly negative. Someone who wasn’t familiar with the company, glancing at a typical day’s headlines, might imagine that Tesla is a company that uses child labor to manufacture chemical weapons to sell to terrorists, rather than one that builds universally-admired cars in American factories with the goal of reducing air pollution and making the roads safer
March 30th, 2019 | by Robert Dee
The environment is not a political issue, it is an ethical issue
March 24th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Below is an excerpt fromInsane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil by Hamish McKenzie.*
November 23rd, 2018 | by Susanna Schick
One of the speakers was Saudia Arabia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi. He began with the official statement (as of that day, November 1st, 2018) about the massacre of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Then he and Secretary Condoleezza Rice got down to the business of how Saudi Arabia plans to remain a viable country as demand for oil shrinks. As oil represents 46% of its GDP and 87% of its exports, this is a massive challenge to its (rather imbalanced) economy. Rice asked him a host of touchy questions with the utmost diplomacy, as expected from a former Secretary of State
November 23rd, 2018 | by Susanna Schick
Governor Jerry Brown and William Perry. Stanford University Staff Photographer: Harmer. While America was focused on the upcoming election, and before Global Warming rendered most of Northern California completely uninhabitable, the leaders in energy production got together on a beautiful day at Stanford to discuss the future of energy. Not just clean energy, but all energy.
July 23rd, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against 5 major oil companies, ruling that Congress has given the EPA the exclusive right to file such legal actions. Yes, that EPA. Is there no branch of government that will protect citizens from the damage caused by fossil fuels or hold the companies responsible for their war on climate science?
June 25th, 2018 | by George Harvey
Since it is being backed by oil industry lobbyists, one might ask, could a carbon tax actually be a benefit for the oil industry in some way? It is a question worth asking
