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Boris Johnson to stress work as the fix for cost of living crisis
May 25, 2022 15:18UK ministers remain unable to decide on ways to relieve poverty as they wrangle over windfall tax for energy companies.
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IEA chief warns climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead
May 14, 2022 16:41Revelations by the Guardian show nearly 200 carbon bomb projects are in planning, or have already started pumping, that will each result in at least 1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over their lifetimes, equivalent to about 18 years of current global emissions.
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'This is robbery': Chevron profits quadruple and Exxon's double amid Russia- Ukraine crisis
May 04, 2022 13:40Chevron and ExxonMobil announced Friday that their profits surged during the first quarter of 2022, prompting fresh calls for a windfall tax as the U.S.-based oil giants continue to exploit Russia- Ukraine crisis to hike prices at the pump and lobby for more drilling.
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Revealed: Leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling
Feb 28, 2022 16:03James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, South West England, said “It’s hard to believe that Elsevier, a Dutch company that publishes research about the dangers of the climate and ecological crises is the very same company that actively works with oil and gas companies to extract more fossil fuels, which drags us towards disaster.”
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GECF ought to model itself on OPEC to defeat US terrorism
Feb 25, 2022 20:27What is needed is a collective strategy based on cooperation among the GECF countries on the model of the Organization of Petrol Exporting Countries (OPEC), so that member states, in addition to their policy of providing fuel for economic development, will possess the clout to thwart and defeat the economic terrorism of the US.
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Biden issues more gas and oil drilling permits than Trump in his first year
Feb 20, 2022 17:57In the Gulf of Mexico, still recovering from an estimated 134 million gallons of oil spilled by BP in 2010, the Biden administration has leased record-breaking off-shore drilling rights to 33 gas and oil companies including Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell, and Chevron.
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‘A perfect storm’: Supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course
Oct 03, 2021 10:17From Liverpool to Los Angles, shortages of energy, labour and transport are threatening recovery from COVID 19.
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Majority of voters want government to rein in Wall Street’s climate destruction: Poll
Apr 16, 2021 08:35Recent studies have shown that Wall Street is a primary driver of the climate emergency. The world's 60 largest banks have poured more than $3.8 trillion into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015.
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Several ways Chevron imperils climate, human rights, and racial justice
Apr 08, 2021 08:38According to an analysis by Richard Heede published by The Guardian in 2019, Chevron is responsible for more carbon emissions since 1965 than any other investor-owned fossil fuel company.
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60 largest banks have dumped $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since 2015, report shows
Mar 31, 2021 16:01A detailed new report released recently by a coalition of environmental groups shows that the 60 largest banks in the world have poured more than $3.8 trillion into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris climate accord was adopted in 2015, providing key financing for destructive projects ranging from coal-fueled power plants in Indonesia to Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline.