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In the clean car battle, the oil industry leans on friends—including Donald Trump—to keep gasoline transport alive, while carmakers steer toward an EV future.

As the urgency of addressing climate change grows across the United States, one unprecedented heat wave and flood at a time, cities are finding ways to cut fossil fuels out of their future.

A recent report by the non-profit Center for Climate Integrity chronicles a “decades-long campaign of fraud and deception” from Big Oil and the plastics industry to promote recycling as a solution to the plastic pollution crisis.

Irving Oil said on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, that a strategic review of the company is underway and that it is looking at a series of options about its future, including a possible sale of the business.

He has an engineer's conviction that humans can solve anything we put our minds to. Then he started wondering how he could convey that to children and their parents.

Fury as "explosive" files reveal largest oil companies contradicted public statements and wished bedbugs upon critical activists.

The Rockefeller Foundation, created with wealth generated from the oil industry more than a century ago, plans to make the fight against climate change central to all of its work, including its operations and investments.

The ruling, and another crucial court decision last week, will force the oil giant to face charges it lied about global heating.

The longer prices stay at these nosebleed levels, the more likely it is that consumers, businesses, industry and even entire countries will look to find alternatives, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The International Energy Agency has clearly stated that no new sources of fossil fuels can be developed if humanity wants to keep the climate crisis within the guardrails set in the global Paris Agreement. The oil industry in Canada, however, shows no sign it plans to do what's needed voluntarily.

Adam Lichter says he spent his last year in Newfoundland and Labrador's oil industry teaching himself to code while working on a supply vessel in an oilfield about 350 kilometres off the coast of St. John's.

The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, to top executives of ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil giants, charging that the companies have not turned over documents needed by the committee to investigate allegations that the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global warming.

A judge is to hear arguments this week over whether Alberta's public inquiry into the purported foreign funding of environmental charities is a valid defence of the province's ailing oil industry or an attempt to silence dissent.

The Farmers Information Service says it will help educate farmers about the industry and their rights, help them prepare for meetings with companies, and give referrals to other services.

Excess space in the oil transport system is vital to provide optionality, energy security and stable pricing, said Canadian Energy Pipeline Association CEO Chris Bloomer, who agreed Keystone XL is needed to ensure future growth rather than short-term demand.