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  1. Making it easier to get permits for carbon capture, transport and storage has been a major lobbying goal of #BigOil group IOGP, which is moderating a panel on “Strengthening Europe’s industrial base with CCS value chain”.

    4 out of 6 speakers on the panel are from the #fossilfuel industry. 🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️

    👇

    1st Conference on European Per...

  2. The ICP is spearheaded by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP), which represents all the big names in #BigOil, from BP, ExxonMobil & Shell to TotalEnergies, Eni & Equinor.

    The #EU Commission is sending 3 high-level speakers, alongside 9 speakers from #fossilfuel industry. 👇

    1st Conference on European Per...

  3. @rolf Maar we subsidieren #bigoil liever met 40 miljard euro per jaar. Schaf dat af en er is geld zat voor de noodzakelijke wateraanpak en energietransitie. Een kwestie van prioriteit.

  4. 🚬🥦 "UC Berkeley unravels the shocking mystery: #tobacco companies invented junk food! Next, they'll reveal that Big Oil is responsible for greasy #pizza. 🍕🕵️‍♂️ Thanks, Berkeley, for pointing out that #corporations like profit! 💡"
    vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/h #UCberkeley #junkfood #BigOil #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🚬🥦 "UC Berkeley unravels the shocking mystery: #tobacco companies invented junk food! Next, they'll reveal that Big Oil is responsible for greasy #pizza. 🍕🕵️‍♂️ Thanks, Berkeley, for pointing out that #corporations like profit! 💡"
    vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/h #UCberkeley #junkfood #BigOil #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🚬🥦 "UC Berkeley unravels the shocking mystery: #tobacco companies invented junk food! Next, they'll reveal that Big Oil is responsible for greasy #pizza. 🍕🕵️‍♂️ Thanks, Berkeley, for pointing out that #corporations like profit! 💡"
    vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/h #UCberkeley #junkfood #BigOil #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🚬🥦 "UC Berkeley unravels the shocking mystery: #tobacco companies invented junk food! Next, they'll reveal that Big Oil is responsible for greasy #pizza. 🍕🕵️‍♂️ Thanks, Berkeley, for pointing out that #corporations like profit! 💡"
    vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/h #UCberkeley #junkfood #BigOil #HackerNews #ngated

  8. 🚬🥦 "UC Berkeley unravels the shocking mystery: #tobacco companies invented junk food! Next, they'll reveal that Big Oil is responsible for greasy #pizza. 🍕🕵️‍♂️ Thanks, Berkeley, for pointing out that #corporations like profit! 💡"
    vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/h #UCberkeley #junkfood #BigOil #HackerNews #ngated

  9. Eight new #gas and #OilWells have been approved for San Ardo.

    “These enhanced# oil recovery methods come with all the risks of traditional production,” says Cooper Kass, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, a watchdog organization which has filed multiple lawsuits regarding California’s oil and gas industry. “They also bring a number of additional risks, including the potential for the high-pressure injection to damage the wellbore and/or crack the surrounding rock, which could lead to migration and #groundwater contamination.”—Report by Katie Rodriguez, #MontereyCountyNow

    #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #SalinasValley #MontereyCounty #SanArdo #AeraEnergy #BigOil #ExxonMobil #Shell montereycountynow.com/news/loc

  10. Documents shed light on the earliest-known instance of #ClimateScience funded by the #FossilFuel industry, adding to growing understanding of #BigOil ’s knowledge of #ClimateChange . Fossil fuel industry sponsored climate science in 1954.

    February 1, 2024, Rebecca John

    Excerpt: "Unknown until now, however, is the fact that Keeling’s earliest research into carbon dioxide across the western U.S. was funded in part by the fossil fuel industry via a private foundation — and that in 1954 this foundation was informed of the potential impact of manmade carbon dioxide emissions on both the climate and human civilization.

    "Newly discovered documents affirm that the #automobile and #petroleum industries funded early climate science #Keeling conducted at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) between 1954 and 1956. Records show that 'oil and auto companies' sponsored the scientist’s research via an organization called the Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, formed in 1953 to tackle Los Angeles’s infamous smog. American Motors, #Chrysler, #Ford, and #GeneralMotors were among 18 automotive companies that gave money to the foundation.

    "A 1959 internal U.S. Public Health Service memo also identifies the #AmericanPetroleumInstitute ( #API ) and the #WesternOilAndGasAssociation — the oldest petroleum trade association in the U.S., which is now known as the #WesternStatesPetroleumAssociation — as 'major contributors to the funds of the Air Pollution Foundation.' Its Board of Trustees included top-level representatives from the Southern California Gas Company, the Southern California Edison Co., Chrysler, General Motors, and Union Oil (now #Chevron).

    "And from mid-1955, these trustees were also appraised of research projects by a seven-man 'technical advisory committee,' which included a senior official from API as well as scientists from the Richfield Oil Corporation (now #BP ) and #Chrysler.

    "With the discovery of these Air Pollution Foundation documents, it is now possible to date the earliest sponsorship of climate science by the fossil fuel industry to 1954, approximately a quarter of a century before Exxon’s internal research program of the late 1970s. These new documents provide important evidence that the fossil fuel industry has been intricately connected to climate science from its earliest beginnings — not only as a driver of the greenhouse effect behind climate change, but also as a contributor to the scientific discoveries that would transform our understanding of humanity’s relationship with the Earth and its atmosphere. "

    Read more:
    theinteldrop.org/2024/02/02/bi

    #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew #FossilFuels #ExxonLied #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #ClimateDenial #BigOil #BigOilStillLies #ClimateDeception #ClimateCrisis
    #Capitalism #Exxon #ClimateCrisis
    #MakeCorporatePollutersPay #Glaciers
    #GlobalWarming #FossilFools #BigOilAndGas

  11. There was some coverage of the #PortlandME No Immunity for #BigOil rally today. Hubby is sending me a gift article link later tonight, but here's a photo from today's march... You can see my sign in the far left corner.

    #MainePol #USPol #ResistanceIsFertile #BigOilKnew #ClimateCrisis
    #MaineEvents #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy #Polluters #MakePollutersPay #CorporatePolluters #WaterIsLife

  12. The #PortlandME No Immunity for #BigOil rally was small, but powerful! We chanted and marched from #UselessSusanCollins office to #AngusKing 's office to #ChelliePingree 's office. Only Chellie committed to making Big Oil pay. I did NOT volunteer to go into Susan Collins' office, as I'm still on her shit-list. Met some good folks from #ThirdAct and #NRCM . It seems I was the only #MaineDSA member there, but that's okay -- a rally should have at least one card-carrying #Socialist! My hand-painted signs were a big hit. Someone asked if I hand painted #NoJobsOnADeadPlanet one. "Yup! No AI involved!" to which everyone laughed. I'm glad I went. I've been burnt out from protesting, so it was good to get my activist batteries recharged hanging out with good people!

    #MainePol #USPol #ResistanceIsFertile #BigOilKnew #ClimateCrisis
    #MaineEvents #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy #Polluters #MakePollutersPay #CorporatePolluters #WaterIsLife

  13. Fossil fuel industry is worsening Western water scarcity, study finds

    In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #BigOil #CA #Canada #cementcompany #climatechange #decline #Drought #gascompany #globalwarming #morewater #recentyear #research #researcher #river #Science #scientist #study #West
    newsbeep.com/ca/872801/

  14. I found about this rally from the #MaineDSA mailing list! #DSA and #EnvironmentalGroups working together!!!

    #PortlandME and #LewistonME - August 27, 2026

    No Immunity for #BigOil Rallies!

    "While making record profits, Big Oil and their allies in Congress are trying to get off the hook from paying for damages caused by their pollution by passing sweeping immunity legislation to protect their #corporate interests. Let's be clear: if you make a mess, you clean it up. #Maine taxpayers have been stuck paying for climate damages with no support from the corporations that caused the problem, and that isn't right.

    "Join NRCM and our coalition partners on Thursday, August 27th in Portland and/or Lewiston to tell Maine's Congressional delegation to oppose Immunity for Big Oil and Make Polluters Pay for the damages they've caused in Maine.

    Portland
    When: 12 PM
    Where: Lobsterman Park, 1 Temple Street
    What: Rally followed by a march to deliver letters to the offices of Sen. Collins, Sen. King, and Rep. Pingree. Bring your signs, your voice, and your energy!


    Lewiston
    When: 4 PM
    Where: Dufresne Plaza, 72 Lisbon Street, Lewiston
    What: Rally followed by a march to deliver letters to Sen. Collins and Rep. Golden. Bring your signs, your voice, and your energy! "

    Coalition: #MaineDSA #NRCM #ThirdActMaine #MainePeoplesAlliance #MaineConservationVoters #UnionOfConcernedScientists #MCAN #ClimateDefenders #MaineYouthForClimateJustice #SierraClubMaine

    FMI:
    act.nrcm.org/a/no-immunity-big

    #MainePol #USPol #ResistanceIsFertile #BigOilKnew #ClimateCrisis #MaineDSA #MaineEvents #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy #Polluters #CorporatePolluters

  15. Peer-Reviewed Study Exposes How #BigTech and #BigOil Work ‘Hand-in-Glove’ to Profit Off #AI

    “New research confirms: AI, on sum, is a loser for #GlobalClimate.”

    by Jessica Corbett
    Aug 11, 2026

    Excerpt: "Welcoming the study, Clara Vondrich, senior policy counsel for the Climate Program at the watchdog group #PubliCitizen, said that 'this research exposes #BigTech as a lead accomplice to the #FossilFuel industry in ways we never imagined. It’s bad enough that communities are being hammered by rising energy bills as data centers gobble up insane amounts of fossil fuel power, but now we see that those emissions are just a fraction of the #ClimateHarms Big Tech is responsible for.'

    " 'To be clear, oil companies are not simply using publicly available AI tools: Big Tech is entering into bilateral contracts with oil companies, and selling them proprietary tools specifically designed for the purpose of accelerating oil production,' Vondrich stressed. “You can’t make this up: Big Tech companies, self-avowed climate champs for decades, are working hand-in-glove with Big Oil to find, dig, and burn more fossil fuels to make a buck.”

    " 'AI’s promise as a tool for advancing solutions to the #ClimateCrisis is fading as a cruel reality takes shape: Big tech companies are selling AI to the fossil fuel industry to accelerate our demise so they can turn a profit,' she added. 'These are the perverse outcomes resulting from our rigged market economy: access to cutting-edge AI goes to the highest bidder and Big Oil has some of the deepest pockets in the world. Meanwhile the externalities—runaway climate change manifesting this summer as historic #HeatDomes and fires—are never counted, except as body counts. Today, Big Tech is Big Oil’s number one accomplice.' "

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/ai-and-f

    #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #BigOilKnew #WorldPol #DrillBabyDrill #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism

  16. I will likely never own or drive a fossil-fueled car. Why? Not only cars are money-wasting machines and a pain in the ass to park, but also the private ownership of fossil-fueled cars is the biggest attributable source of carbon emissions.

    "Guardian analysis found that the eight listed oil producers made almost $93bn (£69bn) in the three months to the end of June – the first full financial quarter after the US-Israeli war on Iran triggered a surge in global oil prices to highs above $126 a barrel.

    The companies have used the biggest disruption of fossil fuel supplies in the market’s history to almost double their combined profits from just under $50bn in the same period last year, with campaigners warning that millions of households are left paying the price in higher bills and climate chaos.

    The data suggests the eight oil companies – Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron and ExxonMobil – made more than $700,000 of profit every minute over the spring quarter.

    While their market valuations were swelling by about $600bn to above $3tn, temperatures built towards a run of deadly heatwaves, all made more likely and more severe by burning fossil fuels.

    Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms were directly linked to fatal spells of hot weather for the first time by scientific analysis published last September. It found the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were each enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible."

    theguardian.com/business/ng-in

    #BigOil #FossilFuels #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

  17. #hitze #hitzewelle #klima #klimawandel #klimakollaps #klimaumbruch #klimakrise #wetter #extremwetter #BigOil #CO2 #KeepitInTheGround

    dr #MarkBenecke IM #Rhein bei #Köln

    Kommt schon Leute, wir schaffen das! Wir können doch die Franzosen nicht gewinnen lassen 🙄 Kurbeln wir noch ein bisschen die Fossilverbrennung an, dann schaffen wir auch einen niedrigeren Pegel im Rhein als in der Loire! 💪🔥 (😣)

    youtu.be/gZ3nzNUtxac

  18. “When you compare that to the hundreds of millions of people who are struggling with rolling #blackouts, with #electricity curbs, #rationing, waiting in line for #food queues, or the disruption to #fertilizers & the potential impact that that has on food #prices, we don’t think that it’s a justifiable price for the rest of the world to be paying,” Galey added.
    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #inflation #affordability #oil #energy

  19. “When you compare that to the hundreds of millions of people who are struggling with rolling #blackouts, with #electricity curbs, #rationing, waiting in line for #food queues, or the disruption to #fertilizers & the potential impact that that has on food #prices, we don’t think that it’s a justifiable price for the rest of the world to be paying,” Galey added.
    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #inflation #affordability #oil #energy

  20. “When you compare that to the hundreds of millions of people who are struggling with rolling #blackouts, with #electricity curbs, #rationing, waiting in line for #food queues, or the disruption to #fertilizers & the potential impact that that has on food #prices, we don’t think that it’s a justifiable price for the rest of the world to be paying,” Galey added.
    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #inflation #affordability #oil #energy

  21. “When you compare that to the hundreds of millions of people who are struggling with rolling #blackouts, with #electricity curbs, #rationing, waiting in line for #food queues, or the disruption to #fertilizers & the potential impact that that has on food #prices, we don’t think that it’s a justifiable price for the rest of the world to be paying,” Galey added.
    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #inflation #affordability #oil #energy

  22. “When you compare that to the hundreds of millions of people who are struggling with rolling #blackouts, with #electricity curbs, #rationing, waiting in line for #food queues, or the disruption to #fertilizers & the potential impact that that has on food #prices, we don’t think that it’s a justifiable price for the rest of the world to be paying,” Galey added.
    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #inflation #affordability #oil #energy

  23. The money that #oil companies accrued between the beginning of April & the end of June could receive extra scrutiny this year. #Gasoline, #diesel & #JetFuel prices climbed sharply during that period, increasing costs for drivers & airline passengers. Supplies ran low in some countries, leading to sporadic #fuel #rationing in Australia & government office closures in Nepal & Sri Lanka.

    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #affordability #energy

  24. The money that #oil companies accrued between the beginning of April & the end of June could receive extra scrutiny this year. #Gasoline, #diesel & #JetFuel prices climbed sharply during that period, increasing costs for drivers & airline passengers. Supplies ran low in some countries, leading to sporadic #fuel #rationing in Australia & government office closures in Nepal & Sri Lanka.

    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #affordability #energy

  25. The money that #oil companies accrued between the beginning of April & the end of June could receive extra scrutiny this year. #Gasoline, #diesel & #JetFuel prices climbed sharply during that period, increasing costs for drivers & airline passengers. Supplies ran low in some countries, leading to sporadic #fuel #rationing in Australia & government office closures in Nepal & Sri Lanka.

    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #affordability #energy

  26. The money that #oil companies accrued between the beginning of April & the end of June could receive extra scrutiny this year. #Gasoline, #diesel & #JetFuel prices climbed sharply during that period, increasing costs for drivers & airline passengers. Supplies ran low in some countries, leading to sporadic #fuel #rationing in Australia & government office closures in Nepal & Sri Lanka.

    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #affordability #energy

  27. The money that #oil companies accrued between the beginning of April & the end of June could receive extra scrutiny this year. #Gasoline, #diesel & #JetFuel prices climbed sharply during that period, increasing costs for drivers & airline passengers. Supplies ran low in some countries, leading to sporadic #fuel #rationing in Australia & government office closures in Nepal & Sri Lanka.

    #BigOil #WarProfiteering #ClimateChange #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Trump #economy #affordability #energy

  28. "In effect, the rest of #Canada is being asked to subsidize the #oilsands into global competitiveness. This is an impossible task and a profound misallocation of public resources at a moment of converging #climate, #environmental, economic and security crises." nationalobserver.com/2026/07/3

    #cdnpoli #BigOil #fossilfuelSubsidies #climateCriminals

  29. The report #OilCompanies are worried about: #ClimateAttribution science

    New report says our ability to tie weather damages to #ClimateChange is improving.

    John Timmer – Jul 17, 2026

    Excerpt: "Climate change is being driven largely by the greenhouse gases we’ve pumped into the atmosphere, which trap more of the Sun’s energy there. That added energy increases the odds of extreme events: longer, more intense heat waves and droughts, interspersed with excessive precipitation. But these sorts of events have happened in the past—how can we tell if any given weather disaster has been made more likely by the climate?

    "It’s a question with implications for everything from building codes to disaster preparedness. And there’s some good news: According to a report released by the US National Academies of Science on Thursday, the field of climate attribution is growing increasingly mature and can answer some questions for us with far greater confidence than it could just a decade ago. The report also notes that there are still important limits and suggests steps to address them.

    "Overall, this makes it clear that climate attribution is normal, mainstream science. And the #FossilFuel industry views that as a problem, as it could make it easier to hold companies liable for damages. This has triggered a backlash that has Republicans in Congress and state governments threatening the National Academies’ funding."

    Read more:
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

    #BigOil #BigOilAndGas #BigOilKnew #Oiligarchy #FossilFools #CimateCrisis #CorporateColonialism #ScienceDeniers #MakePollutersPay

  30. They Are Dying. And #Canada Is Watching.

    #Mikisew #Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the #OilSands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.

    by Brandi Morin
    Apr 13, 2026

    Excerpt: "The findings confirmed what this community has carried in their grief, in their graveyards, for generations: cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 percent higher than the rest of Alberta. Since 1993, there have been 149 documented cases — and that number, Tuccaro says, is a gross underestimate. People who leave the community for treatment are no longer counted in local statistics. Factor those in, and the real number for Mikisew Cree members alone, he estimates, is closer to 250 to 300."

    indigenousinsider.substack.com

    #CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism

  31. At #Chevron’s Gates, Communities Demand #Justice and a #FossilFree Future

    #AntiChevron Day 2026 united communities fighting #extraction, #EnvironmentalRacism, and #corporate impunity across continents

    May 21, 2026 | Paul Paz y Miño

    "Nearly three decades after communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon first brought global attention to Chevron’s crimes, and 13 years after activists launched the first Anti-Chevron Day in 20 countries, the resistance continues. Chevron remains one of the most polluting companies on Earth – and one of the most determined to avoid accountability for it.

    Anti-Chevron Day

    "For the 13th year running, Anti-Chevron Day brought frontline leaders from across the globe to the shadow of Chevron’s #RichmondCA refinery, where communities gathered with anger, grief, music, ceremony, and determination to confront one of the world’s most destructive oil companies.

    "The gathering came just weeks after the historic First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, #Colombia, where Indigenous leaders and governments demanded an urgent and just transition away from the fossil fuel economy that continues to poison the territories and devastate the health of frontline communities worldwide. In Richmond, that demand felt immediate and deeply personal. It is being shaped by the people most directly harmed by extraction and pollution, and by movements building solidarity across borders.

    "Chevron must clean up its '#RainforestChernobyl' in the #EcuadorianAmazon!

    "For over three decades, Chevron chose profit over people. While drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964 to 1990, it deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of #ToxicWastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of #CrudeOil, and left #HazardousWaste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor."

    Read more:
    amazonwatch.org/news/2026/0521

    #BigOil #ChevronKnew #OilDrilling #EnvironmentalCatastrophe #OilPollution #AmazonWatch #IndigenousResistance #CleanUpYourMessChevron

  32. The ultra-rich have already declared war to the planet and everyone on it.

    They're laying off hundreds of thousands of employees.

    They're increasing their extractive economies until they've stripped the lands and seas of all their resources.

    They're investing billions in AI slop.

    They're building luxury bunkers and exclusive cities to house and protect them from Global Warming and Climate Change, which they've single-handedly caused.

    It's now or never: EAT. THE. RICH.

    #Capitalism #EatTheRich #PayTaxes #Consolidation #TrickleDownEconomy #BeTheChange #ResetSociety #Decentralization #BigTech #BigCorpo #BigOil #BanFossils #GreenEnergy #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #DirtyPoliticians #NoKings #Fascism #Nazi #ArrestTheRich #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #SaveThePlanet #MotherNature #AI #AISlop #AIAct #BanAI

  33. Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant
    Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
    By EMILY ATKIN
    heated.world/p/charlie-kirks-e #CharlieKirk #climateChange #fossilFuels #extremism #climateDenial #bigOil #conspiracyTheories #rightWingExtremism