At CERAWeek, Big Oil Executives Call for ‘Energy Security’ and Longevity for Fossil Fuels Heads of the world’s top oil companies met in Houston and said the war in Ukraine has helped make the case for fossil fuels and a “balanced” energy transition. As one executive put it: “Our strategy is to stay as oily as we can for as long as we can.” By Nicholas Kusnetz
Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science By Nicholas Kusnetz
Oil Companies Had a Problem With ExxonMobil’s Industry-Wide Carbon Capture Proposal: Exxon’s Bad Reputation By Nicholas Kusnetz
Oil Companies Are Eying Federal Climate Funds to Expand Hydrogen Production. Will Their Projects Cut Emissions? By Nicholas Kusnetz
Corpus Christi Sold Its Water to Exxon, Gambling on Desalination. So Far, It’s Losing the Bet By Dylan Baddour
New Jersey Joins Other States in Suing Fossil Fuel Industry, Claiming Links to Climate Change By Jon Hurdle
Exxon’s Long-Shot Embrace of Carbon Capture in the Houston Area Just Got Massive Support from Congress By Nicholas Kusnetz
Q&A: The Activist Investor Who Shook Up the Board at ExxonMobil, on How—or if—it Changed the Company By Nicholas Kusnetz
California Attorney General Investigates the Oil and Gas Industry’s Role in Plastic Pollution, Subpoenas Exxon By James Bruggers
Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public By Nicholas Kusnetz
Fossil Fuel Companies Stand to Make Billions From Tax Break in Democrats’ Build Back Better Bill By Nicholas Kusnetz
Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People By Nicholas Kusnetz
Big Oil’s Top Executives Strike a Common Theme in Testimony on Capitol Hill: It Never Happened By Nicholas Kusnetz
ExxonMobil Shareholders to Company: We Want a Different Approach to Climate Change By Nicholas Kusnetz
From Denial to Ambiguity: A New Study Charts the Trajectory of ExxonMobil’s Climate Messaging By Nicholas Kusnetz
Maryland’s Capital City Joins a Long Line of Litigants Seeking Climate-Related Damages from the Fossil Fuel Industry By David Hasemyer
A Disillusioned ExxonMobil Engineer Quits to Take Action on Climate Change and Stop ‘Making the World Worse’ By Nicholas Kusnetz