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Tory MPs Tout Carbon Capture at Chevron-Sponsored Event
2023-10-04 by in DeSmogMANCHESTER – Conservative MPs gave resounding backing to the fossil fuel industry this week at a conference event paid for by U.S. oil giant Chevron. The panel “Can fossil fuel companies play a role in the energy transition?” was hosted on Tuesday in Manchester by Conservative think tank Bright Blue and Chevron. Chevron is headquartered […]
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | UK Politics | Chevron
California sues world's largest oil companies, alleging they caused billions of dollars in damages
2023-09-18 (or before) in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Tagged under: Climate Change | Chevron | Shell | Exxon | California | BP
Upcoming Regulatory Cases in the Supreme Court - Legal Planet
2023-09-11 by Dan Farber in Legal Planet - Environmental Law and PolicyThree weeks from today, the Supreme Court starts its 2023 Term. There are two blockbuster cases on the docket. In one case, the issue is whether to overrule the Chevron case, which has been foundational to administrative law for the past four decades. In the other, the issue is agency power to sanction violations of … Continue reading "Upcoming Regulatory Cases in the Supreme Court"
Tagged under: Chevron
Woodside, Chevron say WA faces gas supply crunch as scientists warn of 'climate time bomb'
2023-09-02 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Chevron
Oil Giants From Shell to Chevron Say Gas Here to Stay for Green Transition - Bloomberg
2023-06-26 (or before) in BloombergThe biggest fossil fuel players are making the message clear: the transition to a green future will require much more natural gas.
Tagged under: Chevron | Shell | Russia
How much do fossil fuel companies owe in climate reparations?
2023-05-25 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterSaudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron are the companies that owe the most for damages to the climate
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Chevron | Shell | Economics | Exxon | BP | Saudi Arabia | Aramco
‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says
2023-05-24 in The GuardianExclusive: investigation finds energy giant’s efforts to offset its huge emissions rely on schemes with little impact
Tagged under: Chevron
This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk
2023-04-14 (or before) by in Pro PublicaAlmost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment.
Tagged under: Chevron | Health
‘Monster profits’ for energy giants reveal a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence
2023-02-09 in The GuardianLast year’s combined $200bn profit for the ‘big five’ oil and gas companies brings little hope of driving down emissions
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies | Fossil Fuels
Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims
2022-09-17 in The GuardianFury as ‘explosive’ documents reveal largest oil companies contradicted public statements and wished bedbugs upon critical activists
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Activism | Exxon | Chevron | Fossil Fuels | US Politics
Oil and gas firms’ green investments fail to match promise of publicity – study
2022-09-08 in The GuardianBP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies spend $750m a year burnishing climate credentials but only 12% of capital on low-carbon development
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies | Fossil Fuels
InfluenceMap Big Oil's Real Agenda on Climate Change 2022
2022-09-08 (or before) in InfluenceMapFollowing up on InfluenceMap's 2019 edition of 'Big Oil's Real Agenda', this latest report compares and contrasts the public communications, business operations, and policy engagement of 5 'supermajor' oil companies: BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies. The report provides evidence of significant inconsistencies between the companies' use of 'green claims' with their investment strategies and policy engagement on climate change.
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Climate Change | Chevron | TotalEnergies
The clean energy claims of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell: A mismatch between discourse, actions and investments
2022-05-02 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceThe energy products of oil and gas majors have contributed significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and planetary warming over the past century. Decarbonizing the global economy by mid-century to avoid dangerous climate change thus cannot occur without a profound transformation of their fossil fuel-based business models. Recently, several majors are increasingly discussing clean energy and climate change, pledging decarbonization strategies, and investing in alternative energies. Some even claim to be transforming into clean energy companies. Given a history of obstructive climate actions and “greenwashing&rd...
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron | Fossil Fuels | Finance
Exxon Announces Weak Net Zero Pledge
2022-01-20 (or before) in Gizmodo | The Future Is HereThe company announced it plans to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. There are just a few teeny, tiny problems.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Chevron | Net Zero | Finance
A Forgotten Oil Well Births a 100-Foot Geyser in West Texas
2022-01-12 in texasmonthly.comThe salty water spewing high on a Crane County ranch could be a sign of a “whack-a-mole” future in the Permian Basin.
Facing Prison, Steven Donziger Refuses to Be Silenced
2021-10-25 in The NationThe environmentalist lawyer says Chevron has “to try and destroy what I represent.”
Tagged under: Chevron
This Attorney Took On Chevron. Then Chevron-Linked Judges and Private Prosecutors Had Him Locked Up.
2021-08-12 by in Slate MagazineAll of their names should be known widely.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Chevron | Judiciary
Donziger Found Guilty on Contempt Charges Related to Chevron-Ecuador Case - Drilled News
2021-07-26 by in Drilled NewsA federal judge has found attorney Steven Donziger guilty on six counts of criminal contempt related to an $18 billion dollar judgement he helped Ecuadorians win from Chevron over the dumping of toxic waste in the Amazon.
Tagged under: Amazon Rainforest | Chevron
Victory for insurgents stuns Exxon as shareholders vote for a low-carbon future - ImpactAlpha
2021-05-27 by in ImpactAlphaImpactAlpha, May 27 – In a single day, separate developments at ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell sent an unmistakable signal to oil companies and investors: ...
Tagged under: Shell | Exxon | Chevron
Supreme Court Delivers a Victory to Big Oil
2021-05-19 in Sierra ClubNarrow ruling allows the carbon barons to keep running down the clock
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron
How Much the Oil and Gas Industry Paid Lying Texas Republicans
2021-02-17 (or before) in Earther | GizmodoAs the crisis of rolling blackouts in Texas unfolds this week, some of the state’s loudest Republican politicians are falsely dragging “frozen wind turbines” as the cause. But behind the wind energy smears is a dizzying amount of fossil fuel money.
Tagged under: Chevron | Economics | Texas | Wind Power | Finance
Fossil Fuel Companies Are No Friend to Democracy | The New Republic
2021-01-14 (or before) in The New RepublicBP and other companies have expressed outrage over the Capitol riot, but they have a history of supporting authoritarians in other countries.
How Oil and Gas Corporations Funded an Attempted Coup
2021-01-11 (or before) in GreenpeaceWashington, DC — Oil and gas corporations, including Chevron and Exxon, have donated a total of $5.4 million to the seven Senators who voted to overturn the presidential election and bolstered a violent, failed attempted coup by pro-Trump extremists [1]. Greenpeace USA Senior Climate Campaigner John Noël said: “Oil and gas corporations aided the political …
Tagged under: USA | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies | Greenpeace
Sustainability
2020-10-15 (or before) by in chevron.comChevron believes the future of energy is lower-carbon and affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy is essential to achieving a more sustainable world for all.
Tagged under: Chevron | Sustainability
Nobel laureates condemn 'judicial harassment' of environmental lawyer
2020-04-18 in The GuardianChevron’s treatment of Steven Donziger branded ‘an exceptionally bad case of intimidation’
Tagged under: Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Chevron
Change climate policy now to avert oil market crisis, warns thinktank
2020-01-31 in The GuardianGovernments risk derailing global fossil fuel demand with ‘handbrake turns’ in future
Tagged under: Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron
How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
2020-01-29 (or before) in The InterceptSteven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron in Ecuador. The company sued him in New York, and now he’s under house arrest.
Tagged under: Chevron
Investors to Big Oil: Make It Rain
2019-11-05 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoInvestors want just one thing from the world’s biggest oil companies—cash—but it is becoming harder for the oil giants to deliver.
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | TotalEnergies
Fossil fuel big five 'spent €251m lobbying EU' since 2010
2019-10-24 by Sandra Laville in The GuardianReport comes amid calls for set up of firewall to protect politics from industry influence
Tagged under: BP | Lobbying | European Union | Oil Industry | Shell | Exxon | Chevron | Fossil Fuels
Oil firms to pour extra 7m barrels per day into markets, data shows
2019-10-10 in The GuardianProjected production surge in next 12 years to be led by Shell despite climate crisis
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Chevron | Fracking | Fossil Fuels | Saudi Arabia | Aramco
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
2019-10-09 in The GuardianNew data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Africa | Chevron | Fossil Fuels | Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Aramco
Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report
2019-03-22 in The GuardianAd campaigns hide investment in a huge expansion of oil and gas extraction, says InfluenceMap
Tagged under: BP | Exxon | Climate Change | Chevron | Fossil Fuels
BP faces shareholder challenge over carbon targets
2018-12-10 in The GuardianCompany is among energy firms being urged to set goals in line with Paris agreement
Tagged under: BP | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Chevron
The fossil fuel industry's invisible colonization of academia | Benjamin Franta and Geoffrey Supran
2017-03-13 in The GuardianBenjamin Franta and Geoffrey Supran: Corporate capture of academic research by the fossil fuel industry is an elephant in the room and a threat to tackling climate change.
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron
1998 American Petroleum Institute Global Climate Science Communications Team Action Plan - Climate Files
1998-04-03 in Climate Files - Hard to Find Documents All in One PlaceApril 1998, American Petroleum Institute’s secret plan was leaked – the Global Climate Science Communications Plan. The plan was created just months after the Kyoto Protocol was signed in December 1997. It was developed by representatives from Exxon (specifically Randy Randol), Chevron, Southern Company and representatives from conservative and libertarian organizations. The plan includes a multimillion dollar, […]
Tagged under: Chevron | Exxon | Kyoto Agreement
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