Last week, the Biden administration released 90 percent of the $3.75 billion in funds dedicated to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which provided an average of $439 to […]
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Back to news homeOil Executives Testify on Industry’s Role in Climate Disinformation
House Democrats have begun questioning the executives of some of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies — Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP and Shell — over allegations that the companies […]
As Western Oil Giants Cut Production, State-Owned Companies Step Up
Kuwait announced last month that it planned to invest more than $6 billion in exploration over the next five years to increase production to four million barrels a day, from […]
Are Tesla and Texas a Perfect Match? It’s Questionable.
Tesla’s move from Silicon Valley to Texas makes sense in many ways: The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, and the conservative lawmakers who run the state share a libertarian philosophy, […]
Why Louisiana’s Electric Grid Failed in Hurricane Ida
Just weeks before Hurricane Ida knocked out power to much of Louisiana, leaving its residents exposed to extreme heat and humidity, the chief executive of Entergy, the state’s biggest utility […]
Hurricane Ida Exposes Grid Weaknesses as New Orleans Goes Dark
Most of New Orleans went dark on Sunday after Hurricane Ida took out transmission lines and forced power plants offline. It was an all too familiar scene in a city […]
Colonial Pipeline Hack Shows Risk to US Energy Independence
HOUSTON — When OPEC barred oil exports to the United States in 1973, creating long gasoline lines, President Richard Nixon pledged an effort that would combine the spirit of the […]
The Exxon of Green Power: A Spanish Company and Its Boss Set Sky-High Goals
MADRID — In the winter of 2015, three directors of a Connecticut electric company met with a potential acquirer: a determined Spanish utility executive named José Ignacio Sánchez Galán, who […]
Ad Agencies Step Away From Oil and Gas in Echo of Cigarette Exodus
Dozens of other ad agencies, most of them small, have signed the same pledge, which was put together by the advocacy group Fossil Free Media. The effort, which is known […]
The City Where Cars Are Not Welcome
HEIDELBERG, Germany — Eckart Würzner, a mayor on a mission to make his city emission free, is not terribly impressed by promises from General Motors, Ford and other big automakers […]