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Massachusetts claims ExxonMobil misled on climate change
Oct 25, 2019 (AFP)
"Exxon has known for decades about the catastrophic climate impacts of burning fossil fuels -- its chief product," Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey s...
Oil, gas giants spend 250 mn on EU lobbying: green groups
Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)
Research showed that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total, as well as trade groups acting on their behalf, have held at least 327 high level meetings with E...
NGOs file suit against Total over Uganda oil project
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
The groups hope the court in Nanterre, outside Paris, will force Total to conform with a 2017 law requiring it to elaborate a "vigilance plan" to prevent "serio...
Oil and gas giants spend 250 mn on EU lobbying: green groups
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
Research showed that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total, as well as trade groups acting on their behalf, have held at least 327 high level meetings with E...
ExxonMobil trial likely to star Rex Tillerson begins
Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)
The proceedings, which have been described as "historic" by environmental law experts, is expected to see former US secretary of state Tillerson give evidence a...
Pentagon chief meets Saudi king after troop deployment
Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)
The meeting in Riyadh, where Esper arrived late Monday after an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, also took in defence issues and the current situation in the r...
Japanese defence forces plan MidEast mission: Kyodo
Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)
The move comes after attacks on tankers in the Gulf, as well as on Saudi Arabian oil installations. Washington, other Western states and Saudi Arabia blame the ...
Maritime industry seeks solutions to limit pollution
Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)
Led by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the industry is considering several options to replace so-called heavy fuel oil that propels over 60,000 v...
Venezuela's Guaido holds 'exploratory' talks with China, Russia: envoy
Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)
Oil-rich Venezuela's economy is crumbling amid a political standoff between leftist President Nicolas Maduro and Guaido, the national assembly speaker widely re...
US defence secretary in Saudi Arabia on unannounced visit
Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)
Al-Ekhbariyah television gave no details on the previously unannounced visit, which comes after Esper visited Afghanistan. On October 11, the Pentagon said it w...
Shipping firms look to sail into the future
Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)
"Five years ago, such projects would have gotten us thrown out by security" at shipping firms, said French naval architect Marc Van Peteghem. "Now shipowners ar...
Lack of food pushes S.Sudan opposition troops to desert training camps
Oct 20, 2019 (AFP)
The process of gathering fighters into military camps with a view to forming an 83,000-strong unified army is a cornerstone of a September 2018 peace deal. But ...
Trudeau environment policy a letdown for young Canada activists
Oct 20, 2019 (AFP)
"Three steps forward, three steps back, that's government policy," they chanted. They -- like many other young Canadians -- were railing against what they consi...
Atmospheric pressure impacts greenhouse gas emissions from leaky oil and gas wells
Oct 19, 2019 (SPX)
The unintentional leakage of natural gas from oil and gas wells into the surrounding subsurface - known as fugitive gas migration - is a major environmental con...
S.Sudan rebel leader in Juba for talks as peace deal falters
Oct 19, 2019 (AFP)
The foes, whose falling out in 2013 triggered a bloody civil war that has left almost 400,000 people dead and sparked a major humanitarian crisis, signed a peac...
China calls US outrage over Venezuela UN election 'unjustifiable'
Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)
The leftist government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has jailed opposition leaders and is accused of using torture and arbitrary arrests as it struggle...
Brexit concerns blowing a gale across nervy Falklands
Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)
While Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government and the European Union squabbled over Brexit, conservationists in the Falklands -- a British overseas territory ...
Thunberg brings her climate protest to Canada's oil patch
Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)
"We are doing this because our future is at stake," Thunberg told a crowd organizers estimated to be in the thousands, which gathered in front of the provincial...
Environmentalists slam banks over Aramco IPO support
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
Addressing directly chief executives of Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley -- all reportedly involved ...
Trial set in New York on Exxon's climate statements
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
The litigation dates to October of last year when the New York Attorney General filed suit against the oil giant on behalf of investors victimized by the allege...
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