The much-hyped blue hydrogen actually has a shockingly large greenhouse gas footprint, according to new research.
The settlement will bring an end to a 13-year-long court battle, but the oil giant still claims the spill was caused by third parties.
An Exxon executive was recorded saying that the company's support for a carbon tax was nothing but a "great advocacy tool."
Companies like Shell and Exxon spent more than $9 million advertising on the platform in 2020.
The streaming service's advertising opportunities have opened a new door for Big Oil.
New documents show how the oil industry is attempting to promote natural gas as part of the climate solution.
There's a danger in ad campaigns that don't feel like they're selling you something.
A new report chronicles the history of one of the most prominent denier groups—and helps us preview what's coming next.
The UK may greenlight a huge new oil project just months before it hosts a "last-chance" global climate summit. Greta isn't having it.
Big Oil has made small forays into the world of Instagram influencer marketing—but if history is any indication, they're just getting started.
Biden is letting major climate proposals fall from his infrastructure plan. Recent history shows that's a bad idea.
Oil-producing heavyweights like Russia and Saudi Arabia will not go quietly into the night. This week, ministers from those and other countries slammed the latest report from the International Energy Agency calling for all new oil and gas development to stop by next year, using some pretty heated (and funny) rhetoric. The “euphoria” around the…
Guess intersectional oil is really a thing we're doing now.
Two Guyanese climate activists are taking their nation’s government to court. Late last month, the plaintiffs filed a lawsuit alleging that a deal Guyanese officials struck with Exxon allowing the energy company to expand its oil production off the country’s coast violates their right and the right of future generations to a healthy environment. “These…
Russia’s national oil company has begun construction on a massive project in the Arctic that officials say will produce 25 million tons of oil each year by 2024. The new operation is possible only because the Arctic is now traversable in places and at times it previously wasn’t, due to sea ice levels plummeting as…
An activist investor that staged a coup at Exxon on Wednesday over the company’s mishandling of climate change and got two new board members elected has generated headlines around the world. But that coup is a little more complex than it seems at first glance. Wednesday’s win was, in part, a victory because of just how…
The world may surpass the key 1.5-degree-Celsius (2.7-degree-Fahrenheit) global warming threshold within the next five years, a major new outlook on climate trends shows. It’s the latest sign that we’re speeding toward the grim future that climate scientists have warned about for years unless we change course. The report released by the World Meteorological Organization…
To say Tuesday was a bad day for Big Oil is an understatement. Chevron and Exxon, the two largest oil companies in the U.S., got rolled by their own investors. Shell also suffered a crippling defeat in a Dutch court in what may end up being the biggest win for the climate. But it’s the…
History was made at ExxonMobil’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday when investors essentially staged a coup, voting to oust at least two members of the board due to the company’s poor performance on climate change. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Those members will be replaced by climate activists backed by investor…
A court in the Netherlands just handed down a landmark ruling, ordering Shell to slash its carbon pollution 45% by 2030. It’s hard to overstate how radical the ruling is and the far-ranging impacts it could have not just for the Dutch oil giant but oil companies around the world. Milieudefensie, the Dutch chapter of…
