September 1, 2020 – The big financial news yesterday was that, despite the pandemic, Wall Street just recorded its best August in more than 30 years. However history was also made in what is yet another seismic shift in the financial clout of the oil industry. The once mighty Exxon suffered the corporate humiliation of […]
Andy Rowell, OIl Change International
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Study shows wealthy countries must begin a managed phase-out of fossil fuels
June 1, 2020 – Wealthy, diversified economies should be the first to phase out fossil fuel extraction and should cover the cost of a global phase-out, according to a new peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Climate Policy. Download the accepted manuscript here. The study – led by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and […]
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Andy Rowell: Post COVID-19, the public demands a cleaner, healthier future, but politicians fund fossil fuels
May 13, 2020 – There is a growing disconnect between the kind of future people envision for a post-COVID-19 world and the fossil fuel world that politicians continue to lobby. After weeks of lockdown, with time to pause, breathe, rethink, and reevaluate, millions of people do not want to go back to the old normal. […]
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Andy Rowell: “Tell me Donald. Exactly how much is a human life being sold for?”
January 29, 2019 – Two years into his Presidency, the fullblown cost of Donald Trump’s assault on human health, the environment and on science is becoming brutally and painfully clear. The cost in lives lost and pollution emitted from his rollback of regulations has been calculated too. The numbers do not lie: Trump is killing […]
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Andy Rowell: 15-Year Old Oil Spill Could Become Bigger than Deepwater Horizon
Jan. 3, 2019 – It may be a New Year, but there is an old oil spill that keeps on spilling. The trouble is that you will probably have never have heard about the spill. But you need to know. Because, for the last fifteen years, some 10,000 to 30,000 gallons of oil has leaked […]
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Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take responsibility
Dec. 3, 2018 – Earlier today, the naturalist Sir David Attenborough addressed the UN climate conference in Poland, saying: “Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Climate change.” “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of […]
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Andy Rowell: “Only A Matter of Time” Before Category 6 Hurricane Hits U.S.
Sept. 17, 2018 – As I write, Typhoon Mangkhut and Hurricane Florence are still making waves on different continents leaving millions of people to pick up the cost of these two destructive storms. In Asia, Typhoon Mangkhut is one of the most powerful storms to hit the region for decades. Although Mangkhut was downgraded from […]
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Andy Rowell: Oil Experts Think Economics of Drilling ANWR Are “Suspect”
Dec. 7, 2017 – Republicans may be celebrating their great tax rip off they sneaked through last Friday night, which included the hugely disputed proposal of drilling of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but opening up America’s last true wilderness to oil exploitation is still far from certain. Firstly, drilling in ANWR is deeply unpopular […]
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US Coast Guard: We Won’t Be Able to Recover Oil if There’s a Spill in the Arctic
July 20, 2017 – For months now America’s climate denying President, Donald Trump, has been maneuvering to open up the Arctic to oil drilling, in another act of defiance against his predecessor, Barak Obama. Back in April, Trump signed an executive order to extend offshore oil and gas drilling to large parts of the Atlantic, […]
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Former EPA Staffers Hit Back at “Severe”, “Unprecedented” and “Orwellian” Cuts
June 14, 2017 – “The Trump Administration claims that it supports clean air and water, but its proposed FY 2018 Budget tells another story.” So begins the devastating ten page analysis and critique of the proposed cuts to the EPA, written by former staffers, called the Environmental Protection Network, which is made up of retired […]
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Andy Rowell: #Exxonknew: Tillerson Used Alias Email Account on Climate
March 20, 2017 – Scandal has a habit of coming full-circle. For months on the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to “lock her up”, referring to Hillary Clinton’s use of private email accounts. The issue became a cause celebre for his supporters. Ironically on Monday, Trump’s Justice Department actually went to court to stop two […]
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Andy Rowell: “They cannot extinguish the fire that Standing Rock started”
Feb. 24, 2017 – Once again Big Oil has been forced to rely on brutal militarized force to bludgeon, bully, beat and intimidate peaceful water protectors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. But in the face of such violence and intimidation, the growing movement against new fossil fuels will not be intimidated, it will only grow. […]
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Andy Rowell: “Dakota Access uses attack dogs against Natives in the name of oil”
Sept. 5, 2016 – The contrast could not have been greater. Over the weekend, speaking on the eve of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, history was made as President Obama and Chinese President, Xi Jinping, announced that the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases would formally ratify the Paris agreement on climate change. “We have […]