As the SEC looks to finalize anti-corruption rules, will it course correct and reassert U.S. leadership in extractive transparency? With the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [...]
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States, Big Oil saw an opportunity to enrich itself. For decades, the fossil fuel industry has deliberately concealed the dangers that its products [...]
Oil companies distort the truth by spending billions of dollars on misleading advertising campaigns. They could be using that money to fund the solutions we need to address the climate crisis. A [...]
Oil Industry: These Climate Change Lawsuits are Sure Losers – and Will Make Lots of Money for the Lawyers Who Only Get Paid if They Win
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In the past few months, we’ve seen a number of oil industry hit-pieces against communities, attorneys, and NGOs involved in litigation against fossil fuel companies over their [...]
The House Financial Services Committee voted today to advance a bill repealing the bipartisan Cardin-Lugar anti-corruption provision (Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act), which requires oil, gas [...]
Are the six international Greenpeace activists who boarded a Shell drilling ship on the high seas dissidents committing a courageous act of civil disobedience? Are they dangerous nuisances who [...]
It’s about 1:30 in the afternoon when I meet Jefferson Vilchez, at Jibaro, a hot, muddy oil company port on the Rio Corrientes in Peru. Jefferson has just come back from viewing a nearby [...]
An agreement has been reached between indigenous federations of four river basins in Peru´s northern Amazon, the National Government, and Pluspetrol, the Argentine oil company currently operating [...]
Over the past 15 years, oil companies have paid more than $3 billion to resolve charges that they “regularly cheated the U.S. government and Native American communities out of royalties on [...]
I was excited to see today that Canadian industry associations representing the world’s largest mining companies have endorsed regulations requiring fully public disclosure of companies’s [...]
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