petroleum industry

GOP Senators Attack Biden’s Interior Pick As ‘Radical’ For Wanting To Protect Land, Air

Turns out that Deb Haaland, a Native American lawmaker determined to tackle climate change, scares Republicans bankrolled by the oil and gas industry.
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Trump Scraps Rule On Potent Greenhouse Gas As Climate Disasters Mount

Even Exxon Mobil and BP oppose the EPA’s decision to eliminate regulations on methane.
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Big Oil’s Fallback Plan Is Falling Flat

But the industry’s political lobbying during the pandemic has been a smashing success.
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10 Years After Deepwater Horizon, The U.S. Is Even More At Risk Of A Major Oil Spill

"Deepwater Horizon is not the worst-case scenario,” one oceanographer warned.
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Paul Krugman Bashes Trump Scheme To Boost Oil Profits While Stonewalling Post Office Aid

A new deal to slash oil output will benefit Trump's campaign contributors and "favorite autocrats" in Saudi Arabia and Russia, the economist points out.
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Oil Drilling Plan Near Sacred Utah Monument Draws Tribal Opposition

Numerous indigenous groups consider Hovenweep National Monument and its prehistoric structures to be sacred.
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Trump Administration To Undo Limits On Methane, Ignoring Environmental Concerns

Even some oil and gas companies oppose the EPA plan to loosen regulation of the potent greenhouse gas.
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Trump’s Attack On Climate Science Echoes Big Oil’s 1998 Denial Campaign

The oil industry hatched a plan to recruit scientists to sow doubt about the climate change threat. The White House carries that torch.
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Interior Nominee’s Swampy Industry Ties Take Center Stage At Confirmation Hearing

The former oil and gas lobbyist said Thursday that extending his ethics recusals would leave him “handcuffed.”
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Big Business Spent $1.4 Billion On PR, Advertising Over The Last Decade

The oil industry “leads the pack by a mile,” with the American Petroleum Institute accounting for nearly half the total.
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