Big Oil's California Connection
State insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara has taken campaign money and gifts from fossil fuel interests and “done almost nothing” to address climate change.
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Breaking news and critical investigations into the world’s mounting climate crisis, with a focus on those who are exacerbating and profiting from the disaster.
Fossil Fuel Investments Are Burning California Pensioners
California’s top investment funds have resisted divestment and funneled big money into fossil fuel firms like those behind Dakota Access — costing public workers billions.
1/5 Live Chat: “Don’t Look Up” Director Adam McKay
The Oscar-winning filmmaker will discuss collaborating with Sirota on the new climate film “Don’t Look Up.”
Pipeline Giant Seeks Jackpot Before Climate Cataclysm
A fossil fuel behemoth is citing the climate crisis it is intensifying as rationale to jack up consumer prices.
Insuring — And Ensuring — The Apocalypse
Regulators are taking aim at how insurance companies are helping to fuel the climate crisis.
Build Back Better’s Gift To The Gas Industry
Hidden in the reconciliation bill’s clean energy rebate program is a provision that could tether homeowners’ appliances to natural gas for a long time to come.
Biden Just Nominated Joe Manchin-Lite
The president has quietly nominated an energy consultant who has long championed carbon capture incentives as a way to sustain the fossil fuel industry in a burning world.
The U.S. Is Blocking Climate Reparations
At COP26, the U.S. and its rich allies refused to consider how to pay for the damage their emissions are wreaking on developing nations.
How Workers Are Inadvertently Propping Up Fossil Fuels
As pension funds buy into private equity, workers’ retirement savings are being used to bankroll oil and gas companies’ climate destruction.
The U.S. Is Reneging On Its Climate Commitments
By refusing to define “climate finance,” the U.S. and other developed nations are avoiding their environmental responsibilities and forcing other nations into debt traps.