Agents of Behemoth

As the Hawaiian island of Maui is reeling from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century, the Hawaii Supreme Court on Thursday is set to hear fossil fuel giants' request to dismiss a climate liability lawsuit filed by the City and County of Honolulu on Oahu.

Students at Princeton describe unease that Exxon employee had an office on campus, while dozens of universities have big oil links

Massive failures of methane gas- and coal-fired power plants during "Winter Storm Elliott" left PJM over 40 GWh short over Christmas weekend.

Who says companies aren't exploiting the COVID supply chain issues?

Since the January 6 insurrection, six of the biggest fossil fuel companies in America have given nearly $700,000 to the campaign and leadership PACs of the Sedition Caucus.

Gas utilities and industry trade groups are fighting across the country to prohibit municipalities from taking steps to cut greenhouse gas pollution from buildings, efforts those utilities and groups view as an existential threat, NPR and the Washington Post report.

The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger states: "Now the motive of the will is something perceived through the senses..."

The oil and natural gas industry has a clear favorite in the 2020 presidential election: Republican Donald Trump. Donations from workers and company executives overwhelmingly favor the president.

A moratorium on oil leasing in part of the Gulf of Mexico is set to expire. What would Trump or Biden do?

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Monday announced plans for an oil and gas leasing program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, clearing the way for drilling in the remote Alaskan area.

Oil and gas companies are hurtling toward bankruptcy, raising fears that wells will be left leaking planet-warming pollutants, with cleanup costs left to taxpayers.

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday reiterated his call for the Biden Justice Department to take legal action against the fossil fuel industry, arguing that oil companies have violated a range of federal laws in their campaigns to mislead the public about climate change. 

As House Republicans prepare to vote on H.R. 1 this week, environmental advocates warned Monday that the sprawling package of fossil fuel-friendly legislation would worsen the climate emergency and biodiversity destruction while saddling U.S. households with higher energy bills. H.R. 1

Authors of paper accepted for publication in Harvard Environmental Law Review argue firms are ‘killing members of the public at an accelerating rate’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom called Friday for a windfall profits tax on oil companies that would go directly back to California residents.While crude oil prices are down nationally, big oil companies have increased gas prices in California by a record 84 cents per gallon in just the last 10 days

The Line 3 route traverses land that Native American pipeline opponents say is protected by US treaties with Ojibwe nations

Exploratory drilling began this week for an offshore oil well just 150 miles from South Florida, prompting a warning from 18 members of Congress, including the entire South Florida delegation, of the potential for "severe, even catastrophic, impact" if a spill occurs.

Washington, DC — This week, Donald Trump announced his intent to move forward with controversial plans to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.  

Environmentalists fear changing Kenya’s resolve would lead to all of Africa becoming a plastics dumping ground

That the Interior Department has now blessed oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge comes as no surprise. It was a foregone conclusion once Lisa Murkowski, in 2017, persuaded her Senate colleagues to authorize drilling in the refuge as part of a tax bill, ending protections that have been in place since the Eisenhower administration.

Egos come large at the super-major end of the oil business. And Oil Search's Peter Botten now finds himself a "facilitator and influencer" squeezed between oil emperors Exxon of Texas and Total of France.