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Oil Companies Are Doing Great, Thanks For Asking
Several oil giants released their capital expenditure budgets for the year ahead this week, including Exxon Mobil and Chevron, the U.S.’s two biggest oil companies. The budgets are an interesting insight into how the industry is going to move forward with the spoils of their banner year — and as the clock increasingly ticks down…
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How Oil & Gas Funding Distorts Energy Research
Journalists like me often seek out academics for comment and insight on stories related to the energy transition, since these professors have often done in-depth research into various fuel sources and their impacts. The hope is that these sources are relatively unbiased; their loyalty is to the data. But a study published Thursday in Nature…
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Oil Companies Want You to Buy Their New ‘Green’ Image
Five of the world’s biggest fossil fuel giants aren’t putting their money where their mouths are. Shell, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies are all spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to look better on climate change — while at the same time investing a relative pittance in their own company-identified, low-carbon or renewable…
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7 Bonkers Corporate Earth Day Campaigns
Friday was Earth Day! And we were absolutely inundated with press releases announcing that every corporation under the Sun is doing something ~*~special~*~ to mark the occasion. There’s no question that this holiday, which started from radical beginnings, has largely become the purview of greenwashing and PR spin.