Baltimore Sues Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Change

Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams Jul 21, 2018 The city's filing comes just a day after a federal judge dismissed New York City's suit against five top fossil fuels firms, and about a month after another federal judge tossed out a pair of suits brought by two cities in California. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

More Than Exxon: Big Oil Companies for Years Shared Damning Climate Research

By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams Dec 23, 2015 New investigative reporting exposes that a task force headed by the American Petroleum Institute also knew about global warming since the 1970s. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Oct 5, 2015 Two prominent Green Party members call for third-party involvement in city council and other local races. This, they rightly say, is a fundamental step toward the large-scale changes needed to save society. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Canada Clears Way for Ecuadorean Case Against Chevron Over ‘Amazon Chernobyl’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 6, 2015 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that Ecuadorean villagers can go after Canadian assets of the U.S.-based oil company Chevron in one of the most bitterly contested environmental cases in history. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

25 Years After Exxon Valdez, BP Was the Hidden Culprit

Greg Palast / Truthdig Mar 24, 2014 Two decades ago I was the investigator for the legal team that sold you the bullshit on the crackup of the Exxon Valdez Now, on the 25th anniversary of that disaster, and four years after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, the Obama administration has authorized BP to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico -- and it's all set to happen again Now, on the 25th anniversary of that disaster, it's all set to happen again. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Indigenous Groups Win Right to Try to Seize Chevron’s Canadian Assets

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 20, 2013 A Canadian court Tuesday granted Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen the right to attempt to seize the oil giant's Canadian assets due to a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court that found the company liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution and the ruined health and livelihoods of people living in nearby areas of the Amazon rainforest. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Corporations Enlist Ex-U.S. Spies to Surveil Nonprofits

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 26, 2013 A new report reveals how corporations use ex-U.S. intelligence agents to spy on environmental, anti-war, consumer safety and other kinds of nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch May 23, 2013 We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group, and one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment. But we don’t have one for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on. “Terracide,” from the Latin word for earth, has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Big Oil Raked in Billions as Consumers Paid Record Gas Prices

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Feb 4, 2013 While you were paying record prices at the pump in 2012, the cash was flowing to oil companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron, according to recently released earning reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mission Accomplished for Big Oil?

By Greg Muttitt, TomDispatch Aug 23, 2012 Big Oil has replaced U.S. troops in Iraq, and the country’s oil output, crippled for decades, is growing again, with Iraq recently reclaiming the number two position in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Now there’s talk of a new world petroleum glut. So is this finally mission accomplished? Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

It’s Industry Over Environment in New ‘Bioeconomy Blueprint’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 27, 2012 Critics say a new White House-sponsored program aimed at encouraging the development of “green solutions" to energy and manufacturing problems is a green light for corporate giants like Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, Monsanto and Dow to develop the “bioscience” industry without government oversight. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Tough-Oil World

By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Mar 14, 2012 The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but they are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, “tough oil” variety that will be more costly to extract, refine and buy at the pump. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )