Just when the legal and legislative jousting over Exxon’s climate record seemed to be bogging down in posturing and partisanship, the powerful Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped in with pointed questions about the oil giant’s disclosures of the risks of global warming.
A Philadelphia energy company has signed a 10-year agreement to produce a mixture of biofuel and jet fuel for JetBlue Airways Corp., a deal aimed at reducing the airline’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Oil traders and analysts increasingly see the statements as an OPEC ploy to prop up prices short term.
Tesla Motors Inc. on Thursday filed a lawsuit against state officials over the right to directly sell its all-electric vehicles to consumers in Michigan.
Former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed the 2006 measure known as A.B. 32 into law, “guaranteed it wouldn’t be a choice between the economy and the environment, that we could do both, and Governor Schwarzenegger was right,” said state Sen. Fran Pavley (D), who wrote the bill.
At a forum, Trump suggested oil seizure would have been a way to pay for the Iraq war, saying: “We go in, we spend $3 trillion, we lose thousands and thousands of lives, and then … what happens is we get nothing. You know, it used to be to the victor belong the spoils.”
Over a thousand archaeologists, anthropologists, curators, museum officials and academics have added their names and voices to the protest against an oil pipeline being built in North Dakota.
Sixty countries, representing just shy of 48 percent of the globe’s emissions, have now formally joined the Paris climate agreement, the most advanced global attempt in history to curb humanity’s effects on Earth’s atmosphere.
After South Sudan briefly cut off oil to the north and then the global price of oil dropped in 2013, an alliance between two rivals fell apart, and a civil war broke out.
Americans wasted over $2 billion last year putting expensive premium gasoline into cars that don’t need it, the automobile ownership group AAA said Tuesday.
