Colombia’s Wayuú people have struggled to live without water since 2011, as a dam built that year has diverted the tribe’s only water source to a coal mine that consumes an astounding 17 million liters of water a day. The Wayuú say 14,000 children have died since the dam was built.
The very fact that Exxon so strongly endorses the international agreement points to its weaknesses
When President Donald J. Trump announced Tuesday that he was walking back on a key plank of the U.S. plan to live up to the Paris Climate Agreement, many were angry but few were surprised.
The surprise came on Wednesday as it emerged that Trump’s decision to roll back the Clean Power Plan — which makes it “virtually
The news comes after a Koch Industries-backed campaign to rebrand fossil fuels – called Fueling U.S.Forward – was recently launched to undermine clean energy innovations including electric vehicles
Exxon is lobbying the UK government to stop them pushing for electric vehicles as a way of tackling climate change or air pollution, according to documents obtained under Freedom of Information rules (FOI) by DeSmog UK. The documents reveal the firm lobbied UK transport department officials in three separate presentations given after the UK
New research shows that Exxon and the Koch brothers and other entities like them form the heart of the American climate denial machine.
Right now, nearly every leader of nearly every country in the world is gathered in Paris for perhaps the most ambitious and meaningful negotiations humanity has ever undertaken. But if you haven’t heard much about it,
Some climate campaigners have likened the industry to the conduct of the tobacco industry which for decades resisted the evidence that smoking causes cancer.
ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this the firm spent millions over the next 27 years to promote climate denial. The email from Exxon’s in-house climate expert
A case on Exxon Mobil’s alleged human rights abuses in Indonesia can proceed in a U.S. court, but only if it can be proven that the decision-making process that led to those abuses unfolded on U.S. soil.
WASHINGTON --- Two court cases stemming from longstanding human rights abuse allegations against Exxon Mobil Corp. operations in Indonesia are again going forward, following a federal judge’s decision here that supporters call a “huge victory.” Rights advocates say the news is being welcomed by the plaintiffs and others in the
Despite U.S. sanctions, drilling marks business-as-usual for international oil giant.
Despite increasing western sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, Exxon Mobil has begun drilling their first well in Russia's pristine Arctic territory on Saturday.
"Today, commercial success is driven by efficient international cooperation," Reutersreported Russian President
