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Trump plans massive expansion of offshore oil drilling
Nov 20, 2025 (AFP)
The move comes as Washington looks increasingly out of step with much of the developed world, where there is growing acceptance of the reality of human-caused c...
Belgian climate case pits farmer against TotalEnergies
Nov 19, 2025 (AFP)
Backed by environmental groups including Greenpeace, Hugues Falys from Belgium's western Hainaut province is hoping the case will prove a turning point in the t...
Next-generation hydrogen truck engine achieves major gains in efficiency and power
Nov 18, 2025 (SPX)
Originally converted in 2023 from a natural gas engine to run exclusively on hydrogen, the engine was fitted into a Class 8 truck for the H2-ICE demonstration p...
Record support in Norway for fossil fuel drilling: study
Nov 17, 2025 (AFP)
Second only to Russia as Europe's largest producer of oil and natural gas, Norway's vast fossil fuel reserves have made the Scandinavian country wealthy while c...
Iran confirms seizure of Marshall Islands-flagged tanker
Nov 15, 2025 (UPI)
The IRGC Navy said in a statement the Talara was carrying 30,000 tons of petrochemicals and had been monitoring it after a court ordered the ship's seizure on F...
A rare oil CEO shows up at COP30, spars with activists
Nov 14, 2025 (AFP)
After speaking in a panel at COP30 in Belem, TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanne was confronted by a Greenpeace activist over demands that the fossil...
Quake rocks Dutch gas extraction area
Nov 14, 2025 (AFP)
The tremblor, which struck at 01:16 local time (0016 GMT) was the third-largest to hit the region of Groningen, said the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Instit...
Fossil fuel lobbyists out in force at Amazon climate talks: NGOs
Nov 14, 2025 (AFP)
A total of 1,602 delegates with links to the oil, gas and coal sectors have headed to Belem, equivalent to around one in 25 participants, according to Kick Big ...
Norway appeals court backs climate activists in oil permits dispute
Nov 14, 2025 (AFP)
"The climate and emissions impact of burning (the oil and gas from the fields) has not been sufficiently studied or evaluated," the court said, ruling in favour...
World 'will suffer' without fossil fuels: Russia's COP30 negotiator
Nov 14, 2025 (AFP)
Russia is the world's fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China, the United States, India and the European Union. Its delegation at the UN talks in ...
French minister faults TotalEnergies over fossil fuel project
Nov 14, 2025 (AFP)
TotalEnergies, among the world's biggest energy companies, announced last year that it would invest some $10.5 billion in Suriname -- South America's smallest c...
Iran likely seized oil tanker off UAE: security firms
Nov 14, 2025 (AFP)
The ship, which had left Ajman in the United Arab Emirates destined for Singapore, was heading for Iranian waters. Ellie Shafik of Vanguard Tech told AFP the Ta...
25 oil-supplying states accused of 'complicity' in Gaza war
Nov 13, 2025 (AFP)
Panama denies US military exercises on its soil aimed at Venezuela
Nov 13, 2025 (AFP)
US forces have carried out survival and combat exercises in Panama's Darien jungle bordering Colombia this year, and at a police base on the Caribbean coast. Th...
We need to talk about our fossil fuel addiction: UNEP chief
Nov 13, 2025 (AFP)
UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen thinks so, pointing to progress made since the Paris Agreement a decade ago, but says nations must go further, and wean o...
Brazil tribal chief ready to give Lula a 'talking-to'
Nov 13, 2025 (AFP)
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva openly backed the controversial drilling project which began in October when oil giant Petrobras secured a license after a y...
China 'massively' fuels Russia's war chest: Finnish defence minister
Nov 12, 2025 (AFP)
Speaking to AFP, Hakkanen said Russia's cooperation with China had "gone so far" that "China is currently massively financing Russia's war chest". "Russia would...
Venezuela announces big military deployment to counter US presence
Nov 11, 2025 (AFP)
Washington is carrying out a military campaign in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, deploying naval and air forces it says are aimed at curbing drug traffickin...
Trump grants Hungary exemption from Russian oil, gas sanctions
Nov 08, 2025 (UPI)
Trump is a close ally of the far-right populist and authoritarian, who came into power in 1998 but was out of office from 2002 to 2010. On Friday at the White H...
EU airlines agree to drop misleading climate claims
Nov 07, 2025 (AFP)
The pledge from 21 carriers will oblige them to clarify that the emissions of a specific flight cannot be "neutralised, offset, or directly reduced" by contribu...
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