#fossil-fuel — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fossil-fuel, aggregated by home.social.
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"Germany: Police arrest suspect in power grid sabotage case"
#Climate #FossilFuel #ClimateChange #PowerGrid #Un #EU #Europe #Germany #Government #Electricity #Sabotage #HybridAttack #Security
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-arrest-suspect-in-power-grid-sabotage-case/a-79161142
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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. 🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️
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What do you do when there’s a vampire at the door? Don’t invite them in!
The same thing goes for #fossilfuel industry, which profits from causing climate crisis.
We need #FossilFreePolitics, yet #EU Commission joins #BigPolluters in #Brussels today
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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. 👇
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#derelictionofleadership
Should we not increase our investments of becoming energy independent and transitioning away from all uses of #FossilFuel than transitioning agriculture to become more resilient? Why are we not asking for reparations from the #FossilFuelIndustries, but private citizens to stock up on food and water in anticipation of a calamity? Where are the royals on this? What does #KingCharles do to avoid mass casualties and take care of his peasants?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/angela-eagle-uk-stock-up-supplies-el-nino-warning -
Failed environmental safeguards leave coastal Bangladesh facing coal pollution https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/failed-environmental-safeguards-leave-coastal-bangladesh-facing-coal-pollution/
#Bangladesh #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #coal #pollution
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Fossil-fuel carbon fingerprint reaches the deep North Atlantic https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fossil-fuel-carbon-fingerprint-deep.html
#NorthAtlantic #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #carbon
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To keep drilling, Big Oil needs permission to dump treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. We don’t have to give it to them.
https://heated.world/p/oil-executives-just-accidentally
#BigOil #oilIndustry #fracking #ecoTerrorism #Texas #PecosRiver #AtascosaRiver #ecocide #fossilFuel
Sometime in the next few months, Texas is set to issue its first permits letting the oil industry pour treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland.
Five applications are currently pending, covering more than 18 million gallons of wastewater per day, all bound for the Pecos and the Atascosa Rivers. The Texas environmental regulator is also actively working on the rules that would allow oilfield waste to be sprayed on cropland.
It may sound crazy to dump treated fracking waste on land that is used to grow food, or into waterways connected to drinking water supplies. But last month, oil and gas industry representatives gathered before the state Senate to explain why they desperately need to do exactly this.
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US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/25/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-fight-climate-damage
#UnitedStates #USA #US #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby
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#NY federal judge strikes down state law that would have made #fossilfuel companies pay $75 billion for #ClimateChange effects
https://www.amny.com/law/federal-judge-nixes-climate-change-law-new-york/An upstate federal judge ruled that a New York law that would have forced major fossil fuel companies to foot the bill for infrastructure upgrades necessary
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@Theriac Maybe you should examine your own biases. I'm well aware of Carney's pro- #fossilfuel, pro- #capitalist stances, thank you, & don't need to be informed of them. But he IS standing up to Donald #Trump on behalf of his #country, & THAT is a FACT, so STUFF YOU!
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Tracing #anthropogenic #carbondioxide and #methane #emissions to #fossilfuel and #cement producers, 1854–2010
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0986-y
Abstract
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the historic fossil fuel and cement production records of the 50 leading investor-owned, 31 state-owned, and 9 nation-state producers of oil, natural gas, coal, and cement from as early as 1854 to 2010. This analysis traces emissions totaling 914 GtCO2e—63 % of cumulative worldwide emissions of 315 GtCO2e have been traced to investor-owned entities, 288 GtCO2e to state-owned enterprises, and 312 GtCO2e to nation-states. Of these emissions, half has been emitted since 1986. The carbon major entities possess fossil fuel reserves that will, if produced and emitted, intensify anthropogenic climate change. The purpose of the analysis is to understand the historic emissions as a factual matter, and to invite consideration of their possible relevance to public policy. #climate
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Ketan Joshi: AI versus the climate - the AI bubble as fossil fuel marketing
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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. "
#ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew #FossilFuels #ExxonLied #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #ClimateDenial #BigOil #BigOilStillLies #ClimateDeception #ClimateCrisis
#Capitalism #Exxon #ClimateCrisis
#MakeCorporatePollutersPay #Glaciers
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Fossil fuel industry is worsening Western water scarcity, study finds - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-08-26/climate-change-water-scarcity #ClimateChange #Water #FossilFuel
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$900 million from a canceled #wind deal will benefit a #Trump donor
Government #settlement money is going to a Trump neighbor’s private equity fund.The Trump admin’s latest deal to cancel offshore wind projects & boost #FossilFuel #energy development instead is generating a huge payday for one of Trump’s million-dollar donors.
#law #corruption #TaxpayersMoney #ClimateSolutions #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/27/how-wind-projects-got-replaced-by-900-million-payday-trump-donors-firm/ -
"These new findings are known as 'source attribution': Conclusions were stark: fossil fuel firms increased the likelihood of the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave by 31 percent."
>40+ cases filed in U.S. against #BigOil since 2017, at least five are entering #discovery phase(!)
>This science will help communities plan for weather tragedies, it seems they're saying. I guess we're #MakingLemonade
#climate #change #FossilFuel #ClimateChange #oil #gas #ExtremeWeather
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/08/it-just-got-way-easier-to-sue-fossil-fuel-companies-over-climate-change/ -
Tracing anthropogenic #carbondioxide and #methane emissions to #fossilfuel and #cement producers, 1854–2010
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"Hotter oceans
exacerbate the sea level rise and extreme storms that threaten billions of people, as well as driving marine heatwaves that decimate sea life and undermine coastal livelihoods, scientists warned.""The average surface temperature was 21.1C, with the rising marine heat a stark indicator of the climate crisis. More than 90% of the heat trapped by carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning enters the oceans."
"Most of the planet-heating CO2 from fossil fuel burning and forest destruction is absorbed by the oceans. However, a hotter ocean is less efficient at absorbing CO2. This is potentially weakening one of the planet’s most important natural buffers against global heating, the scientists said."
“Fossil fuel emissions need to be rapidly reduced. Meanwhile, it is essential that countries protect marine and coastal ecosystems. Kelp beds, mangroves and marshes absorb carbon and coral reefs protect against storms and provide habitat. More than 190 governments have committed to protect and conserve at least 30% of the planet by 2030, and now is the time to turn that commitment into effective, durable conservation on the ground.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/24/worlds-oceans-hit-hottest-temperature-on-record-in-august
#FossilFuel #ForestDestruction #destruction #HotOcean #MarineLife #CoastalEcosystems #HABs #MassMortalities -
30 years into UN climate talks, the world is hotter than ever Provinces & the federal government are battling each other & activists, frustrated by political inertia, are escalating their protest tactics, taking direct aim at the #fossilfuel industry. All the while, the planet is heating up — with tragic results 🔥🌏
#Climate #Documentary #CBC
00:00 - COP28 & global promises
13:54 - The battle in Canada: #DanielleSmith takes on the feds
27:10 - The tragic consequences of rising temperatures -
#News: Offshore #oil expansion threatens vital marine habitats! 🛑🌊 From Australian #whale corridors to Kenyan coral reefs, #fossilfuel projects cause #ecocide. We must END the destruction! 🐋🔥 #ClimateChange #Boycott4Wildlife @[email protected]
Offshore Oil and Gas Rush Thre... -
#News: Offshore #oil expansion threatens vital marine habitats! 🛑🌊 From Australian #whale corridors to Kenyan coral reefs, #fossilfuel projects cause #ecocide. We must END the destruction! 🐋🔥 #ClimateChange #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29062026/offshore-oil-threatens-whale-corridors-coral-reefs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
South Africa’s top court blocks Shell oil exploration off country’s Wild Coast https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/south-africas-top-court-blocks-shell-oil-exploration-off-countrys-wild-coast/
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The risks of normalising cycling in a car-dependent infrastructure
Where is the safe cycling infrastructure?
"Many Australians are interested in cycling but feel intimidated by riding in traffic. Others are uncertain about route planning, road rules or cycling infrastructure. In highly car-dependent places, cycling can feel unfamiliar, risky or at odds with car-related norms. Simply providing technology and infrastructure does not overcome this.""Australia’s investment in cycling infrastructure remains essential. We need safer bike lanes, secure parking and better integration with public transport."
https://theconversation.com/people-are-more-likely-to-ditch-the-car-and-use-an-e-bike-if-they-feel-confident-and-safe-288102
#MobilityDesign #cycling #CarDependency #motorists #CarMinds #risks #infrastructure #FossilFuel #transition #PublicInfrastructure #PrivateVehicles #PublicTrabsport -
I don’t support politicians who are listening to the #fossilfuel lobby above the electorate who put them in power.
