Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars
Two billionaireTexas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped millions of dollars into rightwing media outfits...
Category: Environment
US Billboard Campaign Blasts Fossil Fuel Giants for Causing Extreme Heat
As about 111 million people in nearly two dozen states continued to face heat advisories, with temperatures reaching as high...
Biden Admin to Protect Wildlife From Pesticides
The Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday that a legal agreement it has reached with two federal agencies will help...
US Republicans oppose climate funding as millions suffer in extreme weather
Swaths of the US are baking under record-breaking heat, yet some lawmakers are still attempting to block any spending to...
Inflation Reduction Act Already Lowering US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
For those of us following the cleantech industry closely, we already know this: the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is...
Analysts Say Solar Is Saving Texans From Widespread Power Outages Amid Extreme Heat
A sweltering heatwave has gripped Texas over the last two weeks, pushing temperatures to 115 degrees F in parts of...
Power companies spend millions to fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility
Residents in Maine are about to be bombarded with a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign aimed at saving the state’s two dominant electric...
Huge Drop in Oil Demand as Electric Vehicle Sales Rise
We focus a lot on electric cars here at CleanTechnica, but while replacing conventional cars with battery-electric ones will help reduce...
1,300 Scientists Urge JPMorgan Shareholders to Vote for End to New Fossil Fuel Financing
As the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis continues to wreak havoc around the globe, more than 1,300 scientists and researchers on...
Exxon in the classroom: how big oil money influences US universities
The lecturer looked, and sounded, the part. Sporting a pale blue shirt and Princeton University ID badge, he had his...
‘Biggest conservation victory ever!’ Global ocean protection treaty terms established
Ocean conservationists expressed elation late Saturday after it was announced—following nearly two decades of consideration and effort—that delegates from around...
The Fossil Fuel Industry Is “Immorally Undermining Climate Action”
Can 2023 be “a year of reckoning,” so that “game-changing climate action” permeates every government and industry, every local community...
Keystone Pipeline Dumps 14,000 Barrels Of Crude Oil Into Kansas Stream
Approximately 14,000 barrels of crude oil escaped from the Keystone pipeline in northeast Kansas not far from the Nebraska border...
Advocacy groups, lawmakers call out Big Oils’ clean energy lies
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform released findings from an investigation into Big Oil companies showing that giants like...
Harvesting Solar Energy Is a Big Win for Farmers
America’s solar industry has boomed in recent years, and is slated for a big boost from the Democrats’ recently passed climate bill....
UN Chief Blasts PR Industry for Spearheading Big Oil’s Propaganda Machine
During his wide-ranging plea for fundamental change delivered Tuesday at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, U.N....
Democrats Target Big Oil for Stifling Free Speech to Block Climate Action
Civil libertarians applauded Wednesday as a U.S. congressional committee held a hearing to “examine how the fossil fuel industry is...
‘New form of capitalism’: Why Patagonia’s billionaire founder donated his company to fight climate change
The 83-year-old founder of the outdoor-themed clothing brand Patagonia and his family have given away ownership of the three-billion-dollar conglomerate so that...
Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
The CEO of the biggest power company in the US had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a...
Since 2021, Big Oil has spent over $200 million to sabotage climate action
The oil and gas industry, one of the most powerful corporate forces in American politics, has spent more than $200...
GOP-appointed justices make combating climate crisis much harder
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, a variety of observers took note of the lengthy and methodical...
An Atlanta-based utility, Southern Company funded crisis denial ads
In 1980, a report circulated to a division of one of the biggest coal-burning utilities in the US warned that...
The Role Of Unions In Electrifying Everything
As a result of human economic activity, the planet confronts a climate emergency. Bold and conclusive solutions are required to...
Shell Consultant Quits, Citing “Disregard For Climate Change Risks”
Caroline Dennett has been a senior safety consultant for Shell for 11 years, but in an emotional farewell video, she...
How the oil and gas industry is trying to hold US public schools hostage
The oil and gas industry wants to play a word-and-picture association game with you. Think of four images: a brightly...
Solar power for free? This nonprofit offers installation, panels, and maintenance at no cost
For most homeowners in the U.S., it will take roughly eight years to break even on a solar power investment....
Big Oil — PBS Frontline Series On An Industry That Lies To Get What It Wants
A new PBS Frontline 3-part series delves into exactly how Big Oil — led by ExxonMobil — has used its money and...
Despite Big Oil Roadblocks, Poll Shows Majority in US Support Climate Action
A survey published Monday shows that most adults in the U.S. support six proposals to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that lead...
It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation...
Joe Manchin Coal Conflict Of Interest Is Dangerous For The Planet
He has been a one-person barrier against climate action, serving as a US Democrat while manipulating climate legislation alongside most...
How Joe Manchin got rich using his ‘political influence’ to benefit the coal industry: report
Donald Trump drew a great deal of criticism from environmentalists and Democrats when he displayed his “Trump digs coal” signs...
Fonda Launches Climate PAC to Break Big Oil’s ‘Stranglehold’ on US Politicians
Vowing to “do whatever it takes to defeat the political allies of the fossil fuel industry, no matter which side of...
Grassroots energy projects are taking back power from utility companies
From solar power that cuts NYC energy bills and powers streetlights in Detroit to affordable high-speed internet throughout the United...
Thanks to the Infrastructure bill, the US will be replacing all lead water pipes
15 billion of federal money from the Infrastructure bill will go to funding a project that would replace all old...
Majority of World’s Oil and Gas Workers Want to Seek Employment in Renewable Energy Industry
More than half of workers in the global oil and gas sector say they are interested in pursuing employment in...
Solar job numbers keep rising
The ongoing ravages of Covid-19 last year, and related solar power price inflation, failed to dent the photovoltaic industry’s ability...
Exxon, Chevron, & Toyota Are The Largest Anti-Climate Lobbyists
There’s a good chance you have never heard of InfluenceMap. I hadn’t either until today, when I read about it...
Oil, Coal, & Gas Got $5.9 Trillion In Subsidies In 2020
Joe Manchin is perseverating about spending $3.5 trillion over 10 years for Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. “We can’t...
Manchin has received $1.5 million from corporate interests attacking Biden agenda
Sen. Joe Manchin, one of a handful of Democratic lawmakers threatening to tank President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, has received...
Cost of Build Back Better Proposal: Close To $0, Cost of Catastrophic Climate Change: $551 Trillion
Right now, as I’ve highlighted briefly before, there’s a hot negotiation underway between almost every other Democrat in the House...
Lying, Cheating Oil & Gas Companies Stick Taxpayers With Cleanup Bill
In our minds, we envision an oil well faithfully pumping oil for decades after it is drilled. In reality, the...
Manchin Pretends Exxon Does Not Lead Him Around By The Nose
Dana Bash proved surprisingly effective in making West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin sweat this morning, when throwing charges of being...
Extreme weather devastating US raises calls to pass Biden’s infrastructure bill
On August 30, 2021, President Joe Biden committed the federal government to help Louisiana and Mississippi recover from Hurricane Ida’s...
Economist Paul Krugman: Corporations refusing to pay taxes for climate change programs is ‘unforgivable’
While the United States’ west coast was battling wildfires on September 1, the Northeastern Corridor suffered tornadoes, torrential rainfall and...
54 Members of Congress (All Democrats) Push for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer this week, 54 members of Congress called for...
