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Oil

August 2024

  • Flares burn off methane and other hydrocarbons at an oil and gas facility in Texas

    Texas comptroller adds NatWest to list of companies ‘boycotting’ fossil fuel firms

    The bank is latest to be named by officials in the US state, which has law to protect oil and gas sector
  • Donald Trump<br>President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks about American energy production during a visit to the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig, Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Midland, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    ‘The dumbest climate conversation of all time’: experts on the Musk-Trump interview

    Trump talked about ‘nuclear warming’ while Musk said the only reason to quit fossil fuels is that their supply is finite
  • A flare burns natural gas at an oil well

    Project Syndicate economists
    Trump would pull out of Paris climate treaty again – and Harris faces tough choices

    Barry Eichengreen
    If elected, the Democrat is likely to face a trade-off over manufacturing jobs and economic independence from China

July 2024

  • A swamp with a LNG plant in the background flaring off gas.

    US energy reform bill a ‘wishlist for the fossil industry’, say environmental groups

  • BP logo

    BP to hand investors $7bn this year as it expands oil operations

  • A illustration shows an white oil pipe with the Azerbaijan flag

    The other petrostates
    How ‘world’s first oil town’ is wrestling with fossil fuel legacy

  • A middle-aged man and woman stand in a neatly groomed yard while an oil refinery looms in the background.

    The other petrostates
    Costly climate ‘solutions’ look like more pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

  • The other petrostates
    Climate hero or villain? Fossil fuel frenzy challenges Norway’s green image

  • The other petrostates
    UN chief urges wealthy countries to beat fossil fuel ‘addiction’ amid expansions

  • The other petrostates
    Canada is proposing to lead on climate – but it’s doubling down on oil

  • The other petrostates
    ‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Tensions rise in Guyana as Maduro uses border dispute to build support ahead of Venezuela poll

  • Cop29 host Azerbaijan seeks $1bn from fossil fuel producers for climate fund

  • Big oil uncovered
    US oil company ran 1977 article predicting climate crisis could cause starvation

  • Shell quietly backs away from pledge to increase ‘advanced recycling’ of plastics

  • London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors

  • The Latin oil rush
    Mexico’s love affair with Pemex: will its bid to save the fallen oil giant block the shift to clean energy?

  • The Latin oil rush
    Argentina’s future lies in the balance as vast oilfields poised for extraction

  • The Latin oil rush
    ‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence

  • The Latin oil rush
    Pristine forests and grinding poverty: why shouldn’t Brazil’s Amapá state embrace oil wealth?

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