99% Of BP Shareholders Back Climate Change Resolution
More than 99 percent of BP’s shareholders voted in favor of a climate change shareholder resolution on Tuesday, pushing the UK oil and gas supermajor to set out a business Continue Reading
Rise in global sea levels could have ‘profound consequences’
How climate change is sinking an Indian island. Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica. The long-held Continue Reading
BP’s chairman says world is on ‘an unsustainable path’
BP’s chairman said he recognized that the world’s energy consumption was on “an unsustainable path” and the oil major’s days of chasing ever higher output are coming to an end. Writing Continue Reading
States aren’t waiting for the Trump administration on environmental protections
A pump jack over an oil well in Colorado, which is tightening its methane emission regulations. (David Zalubowski/AP) More than a dozen states are moving to strengthen environmental protections to Continue Reading
California Threatens Gasoline Car Ban
California might ban gasoline-powered cars if the federal government goes ahead with a plan to relax emission and fuel economy standards, Bloomberg reports , citing the chair of the California Continue Reading
Midwest Flooding Exposes Another Oil Pipeline Risk — on Keystone XL’s Route
Standing on the banks of the Keya Paha River where it cuts through his farm, Bob Allpress points across a flat expanse of sand to where a critical shut-off valve Continue Reading
Meet America’s Newest $9 Trillion Climate Change Solution
Democratic Presidential hopeful and Washington Governor Jay Inslee unveiled a plan today for combating climate change through an oft-before cited transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy. The Continue Reading
Secret Exxon Research from 1982 Reveals Some Startlingly Accurate Predictions for Today
A document entitled CO2 “Greenhouse” Effect, A Technical Review, Prepared by the Coordination and Planning Division, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, April 1, 1982 , which is accompanied by a Continue Reading
Campaigners: UK’s Oil, Gas Production Undermines Climate Goals
The UK’s goal to maximize oil and gas recovery from the North Sea will harm the country’s Paris Agreement climate goals, a new report by climate campaign groups showed on Continue Reading
Drought hit Australia to import wheat for first time in over a decade
Australia will import foreign-grown wheat for the first time since 2007 following an approval issued by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources late Tuesday. The permit issued is for Continue Reading