Minnesota, Ellison Announces Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon, Koch, and API
Minnesota launches a bold climate lawsuit. What are its odds of prevailing?
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Who Pays for Stranded Assets? Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For 100-Year Old Oil Wells
Why shuttering oil wells is a physical, economic, and political mess.
Read more...CEOs Bank Big Bonuses As Oil Companies Go Bankrupt
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Read more...U.S. States Just Lost Pipeline Veto Rights And That’s A Big Deal For Oil
The EPA issued new regulations on pipeline approvals that narrow state authority to intervene. But the fight may not be over.
Read more...Big Oil Taking $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Aimed at Helping Small Businesses in ‘Stealth Bailout’: Report
$1.9 billion in CARES Act tax breaks intended to allow small businesses to keep people employed are instead being funnelled to fossil fuel executives.
Read more...Is EIA Data Disguising A Disastrous Decline In U.S. Shale?
Tallying some of the recent shale production cuts.
Read more...The Federal Reserve’s Coronavirus Crisis Actions, Explained (Part 6)
What the Federal Reserve has been up to lately, such as bailing out the shale gas industry.
Read more...Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End of Easy Pipeline Permits
Important pipeline legal ruling, plus some context: the Trump administration didn’t pioneer US policy of greenlighting oil pipelines.
Read more...Why the Oil and Gas Industry Will Never Be the Same
An overview of the dislocations in the oil market.
Read more...The Worst Is Yet To Come for Oil Prices
Collaping oil prices demonstrate the severity of the fall in real economy activity.
Read more...Oil, Gas, Petrochemical Financial Woes Predate Pandemic — And Will Continue After, Despite Bailouts, Report Finds
Problems with the oil, gas, and petrchemical industries predate the COVID-19 pandemic – and now will be even more difficult to rseolve.
Read more...Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Pipeline Projects Push Forward While Others Falter Nationwide
Pipeline projects proceed, sometimes on a stealth basis, under cover of the COVID-19 crisis and despite the collapse of world oil prices.
Read more...The First Victims of the Oil Price War
Why Russia has the upper hand in the oil price war, and what that might mean for US shale players.
Read more...How Far Will Trump Go To Save U.S. Shale
The U.S. shale oil industry had considerable problems before Saudi Arabia and Russia launched their oil price war. What comes next?
Read more...The Pros and Cons of Planting Trees To Address Global Warming
Why planting more trees is not a climate change magic bullet.
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