Eine wöchentliche Presseschau zu allen Aspekten der Klimakrise aus der Schweiz und der ganzen Welt zusammen. Die Beiträge sind thematisch sortiert und lassen sich nach Themen und Schlagwörtern filtern. Jede Woche empfehlen wir eine Handvoll besonders interessanter Beiträge.

Big Oil & Gas

ANTI-KLIMA KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

ExxonMobil helps Amazon nation Guyana build ‘petrostate’, while people stay poor

Guyana’s rapid ascent to major oil producer has come at a steep price: rising inequality, weakened environmental regulations and unchecked gas flaring

RECHT

Chevron Must Pay $745 Million for Coastal Damages, Louisiana Jury Rules

The verdict will likely influence similar lawsuits against other oil companies over coastal damage in the state.

WIRTSCHAFT

* TRUMP & OIL * Oil Executives Are Quiet on Trump Policies. Privately, They’re Worried.

Eager to stay in Mr. Trump’s good graces, oil executives refrain from publicly criticizing the president. But privately, ‘Everybody’s afraid.’

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER V. GREENPEACE * A Quarter-Billion Dollars for Defamation: Inside Greenpeace’s Huge Loss

A pipeline company’s lawsuit against the environmental group could chill free speech, experts said. First Amendment issues are likely to figure prominently in an appeal.

RECHT

* USA * She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.

A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER V. GREENPEACE * Greenpeace loss will embolden big oil and gas to pursue protesters: ‘No one will feel safe’

As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activism

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER c. GREENPEACE * Greenpeace condamnée à verser des centaines de millions de dollars à l’exploitant d’un oléoduc américain

L'ONG Greenpeace a déclaré à l'AFP qu'elle ferait appel du jugement. «Vous ne pouvez pas mettre en faillite un mouvement», a lancé Sushma Raman, de Greenpeace USA à l'AFP.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER V. GREENPEACE * Jury Orders Greenpeace to Pay Pipeline Company More Than $660 Million

The environmental group had said the lawsuit, over its role in a protest movement, could mean an end to its operations in the United States.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER V. GREENPEACE * Greenpeace soll Millionenstrafe zahlen: Klagen gegen NGO nehmen zu

Auch in der Schweiz nehmen Klagen gegen Nichtregierungs­organisationen zu. «Solche Rechtsfälle binden massiv Ressourcen», sagt Iris Menn, Chefin von Greenpeace Schweiz.

POLITIK

* TRUMP * What Oil Executives Want From the President

Tariffs, tax credits and deregulation are among the industry’s top priorities.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER V. GREENPEACE * It Fought to Save the Whales. Can Greenpeace Save Itself?

The storied group has a remarkable history of daring protests and high-profile blunders. It faces a reckoning in North Dakota.

TECH. & ENERGIE

* TRUMP * U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change

To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”

ANTI-KLIMA

*TRUMP* Team Trump tries to spread the crazy abroad

We’re reaching the point with the second Trump administration where, as Wall Street investors would say, the crazy is “priced in.” There’s absolutely no reason to expect anything other than aggressively dishonest and profoundly stupid governance.

POLITIK

*TRUMP* Will the Shift to Clean Power Continue Under Trump?

Earlier this week, Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer and I reported on the head-spinning moves by the Trump administration that are undermining the government’s ability to combat climate change.

ANTI-KLIMA

*TRUMP* What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

“The Trump administration will end the Biden administration’s irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change that imposed endless sacrifices on our citizens", Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told on Monday.

KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

Supreme Court Rejects an Effort to Block States From Suing Oil Giants

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an argument that aimed to restrict states from suing oil companies for financial damage related to climate change.

URSACHEN

Hälfte der globalen fossilen Treibhausgas-Emissionen geht auf das Konto von nur 36 Konzernen

Dabei nehmen staatliche Player wie die saudi-arabische Erdöl-Gesellschaft Saudi Aramco die vordersten Plätze in dem Negativ-Ranking ein.

URSACHEN

*TRUMP* Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda could keep the world hooked on oil and gas

Donald Trump’s repeated mantra of “drill, baby, drill” demands that more oil and gas be extracted in the United States, but the president has set his sights on an even broader goal: keeping the world hooked on planet-heating fossil fuels for as long as possible.

URSACHEN

Oil giant Pemex fails to control methane emissions, threatening Mexico’s net zero goal

A Climate Home investigation shows Mexico’s state oil firm has struggled to cut its methane emissions as promised, risking the country’s net zero ambitions

WIRTSCHAFT

BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works

Companies will never solve the climate emergency alone. The impetus for change needs to come from government

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER V. GREENPEACE * A Tough Start for Greenpeace in Court Fight With Pipeline Giant

The environmental group, battling a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, told the North Dakota Supreme Court it can’t get a fair trial.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER V. GREENPEACE * ‘Day of Reckoning’: Trial Over Greenpeace’s Role in Pipeline Protest Begins

Energy Transfer, which owns the Dakota Access Pipeline, is seeking $300 million, a sum that Greenpeace says could bankrupt the storied environmental group.

WIRTSCHAFT

BP enterre son ambitieuse stratégie climat et remet les gaz sur les hydrocarbures

Le géant britannique des hydrocarbures BP a enterré mercredi une stratégie climatique autrefois ambitieuse et annoncé un recentrage sur la production et les investissements dans le pétrole et le gaz, avec l'espoir de doper ses bénéfices en berne et ses redistributions aux actionnaires.

POLITIK

*TRUMP* Climate advocacy groups file two lawsuits against Trump administration

Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration.

POLITIK

Environmentalists Sue to Block Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plans

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to stop the Trump administration from opening up vast new areas to offshore oil and gas drilling.

URSACHEN

*TRUMP* Feds Approve Another Deepwater Oil Export Terminal Off Texas

The Trump administration on Friday approved plans for a second deepwater oil loading terminal off the Texas coast, opening another door for continued long-term growth in American crude production and exports.

WIRTSCHAFT

Von wegen Energiewende: Das Erdöl hat die besten Jahre noch vor sich

Erstmals macht die Schweizer Firma Vitol ihre Prognosen zum Erdölbedarf öffentlich zugänglich. Der Bericht zeigt: Die Energiewende dürfte deutlich mehr Zeit in Anspruch nehmen.

ANTI-KLIMA

* TRUMP * Trump names oil and gas advocate to lead agency that manages federal lands

Kathleen Sgamma to oversee Bureau of Land Management, agency that manages quarter-billion acres of public land

URSACHEN

Shell dodges paying compensation for sham carbon credits in China

Shell has avoided paying compensation for nearly 2 million sham carbon credits it supported in China, as registry Verra has been unable to hold the world’s largest offsets buyer to account for the scandal.

ANTI-KLIMA

* MUSKTRUMP * You already know Elon Musk. You need to know Harold Hamm.

The billionaire oil tycoon's fingerprints are all over Trump's high-speed push to crush environmental regulation and renewables.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

Klimapolitik als Treibstoff der Klimawandelleugner

Klimawandelleugnung ist ein weltweites Phänomen. Das stetig wachsende Anti-Klima-Netzwerk aus Unternehmen, Thinktanks und Interessensverbänden gibt jedes Jahr Millionen aus, um Zweifel an den menschengemachten Klimaveränderungen zu säen.

RECHT

* L.A. FIRES * Fire Survivors Call for Accountability for Big Oil’s Role in Causing Infernos in Los Angeles

Victims of the fires raging across Los Angeles today demanded justice and accountability from the actors most responsible for the climate change that exacerbated suffering and losses: the Big Oil companies that created the climate conditions driving the fires.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

* L.A. FIRES * Los Angeles is a climate disaster. The fires will change nothing

Los Angeles is burning. Fossil fuel companies laid the kindling. Soon the world will stop caring.

RECHT

Exxon Sues California Official, Claiming He Defamed the Company

The lawsuit, an unusual strategy for the oil giant, comes after California’s attorney general sued Exxon last year alleging it misled the public about plastics recycling.

RECHT

Climate Criminals – How do we take Big Oil to the criminal courts? Aaron Regunberg

There's been a major wave of climate litigation over the past 12 months, mostly in civil courts. But groups around the world are figuring out how to make polluting the planet a criminal offence. They're targeting the fossil fuel industries to attempt what governments, so far, are failing to do: Hold Big Oil to account, and stop them dead in their tracks before the whole world goes up in smoke.

RECHT

* NEW YORK * Hochul Signs Law That Penalizes Companies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The measure will seek to raise funds to pay for some of the damage caused by extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent because of the combustion of fossil fuels.

RECHT

New York to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change

Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul

URSACHEN

How Shell greenwashed gas with sham Chinese carbon credits

Shell used rice-farming offsets for “carbon neutral” LNG campaign – but farmers and local authorities said no project activities took place

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP29 * Sabotage auf der UN-Klimakonferenz

Etwas mehr als zwei Wochen hat die UN-Klimakonferenz in Baku gedauert. Am Ende stand ein Minimalkompromiss. In der Abschlusserklärung steht unter anderem, dass die Industrieländer die Klimahilfen für die ärmere Länder verdreifachen – auf mindestens 300 Milliarden Dollar jährlich.

POLITIK

* UN-PLASTIKGIPFEL * Saudi-Arabien verhindert Abkommen vorerst

Die Erwartungen waren hoch: Ein "Paris-Abkommen für Plastik" sollte verabschiedet werden, das als "Polarstern" eine Vorgabe für die Plastikproduktion enthält. Doch Plastik wird aus Öl hergestellt und eine Reihe ölexportierender Länder hat das verhindert.

ANTI-KLIMA

* UN-PLASTIKGIPFEL * Rettungsboot der Erdöl-Lobby

Plastik ist eine Gefahr für Menschen und Erde, doch beim UN-Gipfel konnten sich die Staaten nicht auf ein Abkommen gegen die Vermüllung einigen. Die fossile Lobby kämpft für mehr Plastikproduktion, und der progressiven Staatenmehrheit fehlt es an politischem Mut.

ANTI-KLIMA

«Der Ölkonzern Eni will unbequeme Stimmen zum Schweigen bringen»

Der Mineralölkonzern Eni verklagt den bekannten italienischen Klimaaktivisten Antonio Tricarico. Es geht um eine Aussage Tricaricos zur zeitlichen Nähe eines Gas-Deals von Eni mit Ägypten und dem Mord am italienischen Wissenschaftler Giulio Regeni.

ANTI-KLIMA

* UN PLASTIC SUMMIT * Saudi Arabia Leads Pushback Against Global Plastic Treaty

Delegates from more than 170 countries are working to salvage a treaty that would tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution.

ANTI-KLIMA

* UN PLASTIC SUMMIT * Failure of Busan talks exposes fossil fuel barrier to UN plastics pact

Countries told they can’t afford to miss the opportunity to tackle plastic pollution next year – but can they resolve a row over cutting oil-heavy production?

ANTI-KLIMA

* TRUMP * Big Oil’s Plan for GOP Control

Internal documents from AXPC, a powerful fossil fuel trade group, lay out its strategy for demolishing climate policy and boosting oil & gas production under Trump 2.0.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP29 * It smells like oil

What’s happening—and not happening—at the biggest and most influential climate summit in the world.

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

* COP29 * Energiekonzern Socar: zwischen Schein und Sein

Der aserbaidschanische Konzern Socar will die Förderung von Erdgas stark ausbauen. An der Klimakonferenz in Baku stellt Socar hingegen vor allem das Engagement für Sonnen- und Windstrom in den Fokus. Der Bericht von der Klimakonferenz und das Gespräch mit Zentralasienexperte Stefan Meister.

ANTI-KLIMA

Anti-Klima-Abkommen: Italien verliert Energiecharta-Prozess und soll Ölkonzern Millionen zahlen

Der italienische Staat wurde zur Zahlung von über 250 Millionen Euro an das britische Öl- und Gasunternehmen Rockhopper Explorations verurteilt. Die Entscheidung traf ein Investor-Staat-Streitbeilegungsgericht im Rahmen des Energiecharta-Vertrags.

ANTI-KLIMA

* COP29 * The Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Exert Undue Influence Over COP29, Activists Say

This year’s COP29 climate conference started right where last year’s meeting in Dubai left off—with more conflict-of-interest woes around a senior official recorded trying to use the meeting to arrange fossil fuel development deals.

WIRTSCHAFT

Why Oil Companies Are Walking Back From Green Energy

As leaders gather for a global climate summit, investors are rewarding oil giants like Exxon Mobil that did not embrace wind and solar.

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

* COP29 * Saudi Arabia Is a ‘Wrecking Ball’ in Global Climate Talks

Despite endorsing a transition away from fossil fuels last year, Saudi officials have since worked to undermine it in at least five U.N. forums, diplomats said.

POLITIK

* TRUMP * Trump Picks Gas Executive as Energy Secretary

Chris Wright is a TV-ready evangelist for fossil fuels who lacks government experience.

POLITIK

* COP29 * Weed Out the Snakes: KBPO denounces number of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP29

Members of Kick Big Polluters Out campaign decry the 1,770+ fossil fuel lobbyists at COP29 and demand: “Weed Out The Snakes!”

ANTI-KLIMA

* TRUMP * Oil Industry Asks Trump to Repeal Major Climate Policies

The American Petroleum Institute’s list of requests to the incoming Trump administration would remove many of the available federal tools to rein in deadly global warming.

URSACHEN

Öl- und Gasindustrie weiter auf Expansionskurs

Die Öl- und Gasindustrie will ihr lukratives Geschäftsmodell keineswegs aufgeben, zeigen neu veröffentlichte Daten unmissverständlich. Im Gegenteil werden neue Gas- und Ölfelder erschlossen und Milliarden in die Suche nach neuen Vorkommen gesteckt.

RECHT

Des ONG déboutées en appel dans une affaire climatique contre Shell

La cour d'appel de La Haye a rejeté mardi en appel un recours de groupes de défense du climat qui estimaient que Shell ne faisait pas assez pour réduire ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Elle a ainsi annulé un jugement historique rendu il y a trois ans.

RECHT

Urteil aus den Niederlanden – Klimaklage abgewiesen: Shell muss CO₂-Ausstoss nicht senken

Der britische Öl- und Erdgaskonzern Shell muss seinen CO₂-Ausstoss nicht drastisch reduzieren. Ein Zivilgericht in Den Haag hob ein entsprechendes Klimaurteil der ersten Instanz auf und wies die Klage von Umweltschützern ab. Das Urteil gilt als Sieg für den Energiekonzern.

RECHT

Setback in Shell climate lawsuit: we won’t stop until all large polluters deliver on green promises

You are doing everything in your power to help stop climate change. It’s no more than fair to expect big companies to do the same. And yet, for decades, they have failed to act.

ANTI-KLIMA

* USA | ELECTIONS * Oil Interests Gave More Than $75 Million to Trump PACs, New Analysis Shows

Oil moguls are big donors to Donald Trump. But so are engineering firms, hedge fund managers, shipbuilders and others that profit from fossil fuels.

WIRTSCHAFT

BP Profit Falls, but It Still Sees ‘Potential to Grow’ in Oil and Gas

The energy giant’s chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, has taken a profit-oriented approach and said in an interview that the company’s “principal aim” was increasing earnings.

POLITIK

* COP29 * Was Kaviar mit dem Weltklimagipfel zu tun hat

Aserbaidschan und sein Staatsunternehmen Socar waren schon in viele Korruptionsskandale verwickelt. Vor dem Klimagipfel in Baku zeigt ein neuer Bericht, wie groß der Einfluss des Ölkonzerns in Europa ist und welche Banken Aserbaidschans fossile Expansion finanzieren.

POLITIK

* COP29 * Mukhtar Babayev leitet die diesjährige Uno-Klimakonferenz in Baku. Was Fachleute für Klimapolitik von dem Mann aus der Ölindustrie erwarten

Am 11. November ist es wieder so weit: Für zwei Wochen kommen Vertreter von knapp 200 Staaten zur jährlichen Weltklimakonferenz zusammen. In der neuen Ausgabe von «Planet A» geht es darum, welche Rolle die Präsidenten der Konferenz für deren Erfolg spielen – und wer Mukhtar Babayev ist, der Verhandlungsleiter aus dem Gastgeberland Aserbaidschan bei der diesjährigen Konferenz.

RECHT

Court of Appeal rules in favour of Nigerian communities over alleged pollution by oil giant Shell

The Court of Appeal has granted a landmark appeal in the claim of two Nigerian communities whose environment has been devastated by oil pollution, allegedly caused by Shell plc’s Nigerian subsidiary SPDC.

URSACHEN WIRTSCHAFT

BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy

BP (BP.L), opens new tab has abandoned a target to cut oil and gas output by 2030 as CEO Murray Auchincloss scales back the firm's energy transition strategy to regain investor confidence, three sources with knowledge of the matter said.

ANTI-KLIMA

BP und Deepwater-Horizon: «Alles nur halb so schlimm»

Der Ölmulti finanzierte Studien, um die Auswirkungen des Öllecks auf das Meeresleben herunterzuspielen. Dies zeigen neue Dokumente.

ANTI-KLIMA

* MILTON * Big Oil knew monster storms were coming. We have the receipts

Internal documents over the last 45 years reveal the fossil fuel industry has long known their products would supercharge extreme weather.

ANTI-KLIMA

How the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US

Lobbyists and lawmakers have coordinated to enact new laws that increase criminal penalties for peaceful protests

RECHT

California Sues Exxon Over Plastics Pollution and Recycling ‘Myth’

The lawsuit, seeking ‘multiple billions of dollars,’ opens a new front in the legal battles with oil and gas companies over climate and environmental issues.

RECHT

Climate Lawsuits Are Exploding. Are Homicide Charges Next?

The courts have become one of the most important battlegrounds in the fight over planet-warming emissions. Here are prominent cases to watch.

EMPFOHLEN RECHT

Big oil faces a rising number of climate-focused lawsuits, report finds

Communities, states and advocacy groups push to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for role in climate crisis

ANTI-KLIMA

‘Massive disinformation campaign’ is slowing global transition to green energy

UN says a global ‘backlash’ against climate action is being stoked by fossil fuel companies

TECH. & ENERGIE

To Stay Relevant, a Spanish Energy Giant Turns to Waste

Repsol figures that there is still life in vehicle fuels as long as they can be portrayed as low carbon.

BEWEGUNG RECHT

* ENERGY TRANSFER V. GREENPEACE * Greenpeace Tries a Novel Tactic in Lawsuit Over Dakota Access Pipeline

The environmental group, which is being sued by the pipeline company in North Dakota, threatened to use new European rules to try to limit potential damages.

URSACHEN

Why vilify the oil and gas industry?

The richest man in world has a new message about climate change: It’s real, but don’t knock the industry most responsible. – A response to Elon Musk's latest climate talking point.

RECHT

Survivors of climate disasters demand US inquiry into big oil’s ‘climate crimes’

More than 10,000 people sign letter to justice department for federal investigation into industry’s misinformation

BEWEGUNG

To keep its profits, Big Oil stole our future 

Children’s education, and their prospects, are suffering as a result of extreme heat driven by climate change – and dirty energy giants are the culprits

WIRTSCHAFT

Why Is the Oil Industry Booming?

High prices and growing demand have helped U.S. oil producers take in record profits despite global efforts to spur greater use of renewable energy and electric cars.

RECHT

‘Not Caused by an Act of God’: In a Rare Court Action, an Oregon County Seeks to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Extreme Temperatures

Multnomah County recorded its highest-ever temperatures during heat dome conditions in 2021 that killed 69 people.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

Plongée dans cinquante ans de discrédit des énergies vertes par le secteur pétrolier

Depuis les années 1960, l’industrie pétrolière et gazière s’emploie à disqualifier la transition énergétique, par le biais de messages standardisés parfois mensongers, dénonce le groupe de réflexion britannique InfluenceMap, sur la base d’archives Pascaline Minet Publié le 11 juille

RECHT WIRTSCHAFT

Exxon Suit Over Activist Investor’s Climate Proposal Is Dismissed

A federal judge ruled that the case was moot after the investor, Arjuna Capital, withdrew the proposal with a promise not to try again.

EMPFOHLEN KLIMAGERECHTIGK.

What we are up against

Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it. Let’s go.

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

UN chief calls on governments to ban fossil fuel ads

António Guterres says many nations have already banned tobacco advertising and should do the same for fossil fuels, reining in “the Godfathers of climate chaos”

POLITIK

Zustimmung für scharfe Uno-Kritik an Branche fossiler Brennstoffe

Angesichts der Klimakrise nimmt der Uno-Generalsekretär die Industrie ins Visier, die Profite mit fossilen Brennstoffen macht. Er erntet für seinen Boykottaufruf Zustimmung.

ANTI-KLIMA

‎Kemferts Klima-Podcast : Die neuen Lügen der Ölkonzerne

Ausgefeiltes Greenwashing, Lügenkampagnen und gekaufte Wissenschaftler. Claudia Kemfert erklärt die neuen Strategien der Öl-Konzerne. Und "Klimadiesel": Rettet der neue Kraftstoff HVO100 den Verbrenner? Ausgefeiltes Greenwashing, Lügenkampagnen und gekaufte Wissenschaftler.

ANTI-KLIMA URSACHEN WIRTSCHAFT

Big Oil’s Winning Streak Forces Activist Investors to Regroup

Climate-focused shareholders are rethinking their tactics ahead of this week’s annual meetings at Exxon Mobil and Chevron.

URSACHEN

Der Ölverbrauch wächst – auch wegen des Klimaschutzes

Öl ist ein Auslaufmodell, sollte man meinen. Doch entgegen früheren Prognosen wird ein Anstieg des Ölbedarfs erwartet. Ölaktien sind im Hoch.

ANTI-KLIMA URSACHEN

The fossil fuel industry’s ‹existential choice›

The oil and gas industry has done some truly great things. But it's time for a major change

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

* ELECTIONS * Biden and Big Oil Had a Truce. Now, It’s Collapsing.

Companies were enjoying record profits. But the president’s decision to pause permits for gas export terminals has whipped up industry support, and donations, for Donald Trump.

URSACHEN WIRTSCHAFT

Poche multinazionali sono responsabili di buona parte del riscaldamento globale

L’atmosfera non ha confini e le emissioni antropiche di gas serra provocano un riscaldamento globale che non rimane all’interno del Paese che le ha generate.

ANTI-KLIMA

Fossil fuel firms forcing countries to compensate them, Mary Robinson says

Former Irish president and Ban Ki-moon say fossil lobbying is hampering climate progress

URSACHEN

UK ‘net zero’ project will produce 20m tonnes of carbon pollution, say experts

Government told Net Zero Teesside gas scheme will be massive polluter despite its carbon capture claims

URSACHEN

Oil Companies Expand Offshore Drilling, Pointing to Energy Needs

Shell and others say they plan to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico in part because doing so releases fewer greenhouse gases than drilling on land.