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API CEO spews double-talk on polluter bailout
If polluters want to deny the existence of the ongoing bailout, Congress should swiftly repeal these blatant corporate tax giveaways and make fossil fuels ineligible for stimulus lending programs.
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Report: G20 Governments Bankrolling the Fossil Fuel Industry by at least $77 Billion a Year
A new report released by Friends of the Earth U.S. and Oil Change International reveals G20 countries have provided at least $77 billion a year in public finance to oil, gas and coal projects since th…
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Remembering S. David Freeman, the ‘green cowboy’
Dave was a giant in the fight against climate change and nuclear power. His lasting legacy will be the green energy “seeds” he planted across the country and the communities that are safer from hi…
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Activists protest BlackRock’s ‘hot air’ on climate change
In a series of demonstrations after BlackRock’s annual shareholder meeting today, activists in New York City, San Francisco, and London staged socially distanced protests to criticize the financial…
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Golden Veroleum Liberia Lays Off Workers, Endangers Communities, Highlighting Failure of Industrial Plantation Model
Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a palm oil company operating in Liberia since 2012, announced recently that it is laying off 440 workers – about a tenth of its workforce – due to unsustainable loss…
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Farm and Environmental Organizations Rebuke New USDA Regulatory Review
Today, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released their official rules revising federal regulation of genetically engineered (GE) organisms. Under the new federal rules, USDA has significantly r…
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Big Oil scores $1.5 billion in COVID tax scam
According to a review of over 40 quarterly filings, at least 12 oil and gas companies are expected to claim a total $1.4 billion in tax breaks.
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Steny Hoyer backs Big Oil
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer publicly supported the idea of filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve today — a giveaway to the fossil fuel industry that Trump and the GOP had previously pursued.
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Groups call on Harvard University to stop land grabs as new report exposes harm done to communities in Brazil
Rural communities in Brazil are suffering from food shortages, chemical pollution and violent human rights abuses because of large land deals made by Harvard University in the years following the 2008…