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December 16, 2018
Envoys at a United Nations conference adopted a set of steps on fighting climate change meant to guide efforts to rein in greenhouse gas pollution worldwide.
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October 26, 2018
The oil industry is rolling in cash again, but it’s not time for a party. Instead company bosses are vying to show the most monk-like devotion to austerity.
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October 22, 2018
In Oman, temperatures are so high, roads melt. The searing heat triggers sensors that roughnecks extracting natural gas from a BP well are wearing across their chests.
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September 27, 2018
BP, Equinor, Shell and Total CEOs announce that they have agreed to join forces to create a collaborative approach to human rights supplier assessments in the energy industry.
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September 26, 2018
The world’s biggest oil and gas companies made an unprecedented vow to cut their contributions to global warming, even as they warned of a potential backlash from pushing change too quickly.
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September 20, 2018
ExxonMobil said it will join the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), a voluntary initiative representing 13 of the world’s largest oil and gas producers working collaboratively toward solutions to mitigate the risks of climate change.
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September 12, 2018
Europe’s largest oil companies must roughly double the amount of money they’re now dedicating to “new energies” by the end of the decade to meet key climate targets, according to a report from JPMorgan Chase & Co. that suggests the challenge facing the fossil fuel industry has been vastly underestimated.
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September 10, 2018
Mexico’s next president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will allocate 75 billion pesos ($3.9 billion) in the budget next year to oil extraction in a bid to resuscitate flagging output.
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August 07, 2018
Last week, President Trump proposed gutting California’s unique ability to write greenhouse gas emission limits for cars and trucks.
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July 30, 2018
TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline won a relatively positive review from the U.S. State Department, which found that the conduit’s approved route would have no significant environmental impacts.
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July 24, 2018
A new training initiative to help prevent oil and gas incidents by focusing on human behaviors has been launched free to industry by the International Well Control Forum (IWCF).
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June 29, 2018
To reduce emissions and provide affordable electricity, the world needs to burn more fossil fuels, not less.
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June 13, 2018
A group of the world’s biggest oil companies asked a judge to throw out New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for costs related to climate change.
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June 01, 2018
Shell is attempting to market some of its natural gas as clean energy, packaging it with credits for eco-friendly projects that offset pollution coming from the fuel.
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May 31, 2018
ExxonMobil’s Darren Woods says his company is at the center of a delicate balancing act between those who want a cleaner environment and those seeking economic growth that depends on rising energy demand.
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May 23, 2018
ExxonMobil Corp. plans to reduce the amount of natural gas it burns as waste by a quarter within two years to reduce climate-changing emissions, something long demanded by environmental groups and activist investors.
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May 18, 2018
Some of the world’s biggest fund managers are increasing pressure on oil companies, expressing fear that a lack of action over tackling climate change could risk their investments.
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April 18, 2018
Total deepened its foray into power and gas retail, underlining a strategy shift as European oil majors transition to cleaner energy.
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April 17, 2018
The world’s biggest oil companies, for long typecast as villains of climate change, are seeking to reinvent themselves as environmental pioneers.
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April 16, 2018
Ben van Beurden has the same message for activists seeking to bind Shell to emissions cuts, and investors concerned about the merits of shifting away from O&G: Trust me.
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March 29, 2018
Fifty-five years after starting natural gas production from Europe’s biggest field, the Netherlands have signed its death warrant.
