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Exxon and Shell Sue The Netherlands in Secret Tribunals for Closing Europe’s Biggest Gas Field

Following billions in profits and over a thousand gas extraction-related earthquakes, the oil and gas giants filed claims against the Dutch state in four separate investor-state disputes concerning compensation for home damages and the permanent closure of the Groningen gas field

September 17, 2025Sep 17, 2025
International climate negotiations
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The Golden Age of Oil-Funded Influence

Casey Michel, author of ‘Foreign Agents,’ on the state of lobbying and corruption in America.

UPDATED September 12, 2025
Books (Drilling Deep)

Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere

The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.

UPDATED September 08, 2025
Politics

Uganda’s Crude Oil Pipeline Faces Fresh Hurdles from Campaigners

After clearing its many financing hurdles, now EACOP is facing various legal claims that could slow its progress.

UPDATED September 03, 2025
Africa
Litigation and Law Firms

“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.

Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.

UPDATED August 25, 2025
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Climate Obstruction

Climate disinformation doesn’t begin and end with science denial. As the world moves towards climate action, the fossil fuel industry has begun using familiar tactics to advocate for solutions it knows will never actually do anything but keep profits flowing.

UpdatedSeptember 16, 2025Sep 16, 2025

Carbon Capture

Carbon Bros

Where the climate crisis meets the crisis of masculinity.

UpdatedSeptember 07, 2025Sep 07, 2025

Gender

SLAPP’d

The story of an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protestors.

UpdatedAugust 19, 2025Aug 19, 2025

Indigenous Affairs
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Information Pollution

The fossil fuel industry’s favorite narratives.

UpdatedAugust 01, 2025Aug 01, 2025

Advertising and PR industry
Fossil Fuel Industry
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Welcome to the World of Obstruction

Everyone agrees that the reason the world hasn’t acted on climate has less to do with science or technology than with political will. So, how do you build it? And what’s stopping it being built?

September 16, 2025Sep 16, 2025
Academia
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