Andy Rowell
Andy Rowell is a staff blogger for Oil Change International in addition to working as a freelance writer and investigative journalist who specializes in environmental, health and lobbying issues. Follow him on Twitter: @andy_rowell
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Views Wednesday, March 03, 2021 John Kerry Tells Big Oil to Stop Resisting Energy Transition or "You’re Going to End up on the Wrong Side of This Battle." What a difference two years make. This week witnesses one of the most influential and largest oil industry conferences take place, called CERAWeek. Normally, the crème de la crèmeof the oil industry descend on Houston for a pro-fossil fuel frenzy. But this year, due to COVID-19, the event is... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 27, 2021 It's Time for Biden to Join With the EU's Mission to Phase-Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies We are two weeks into a Biden Presidency, with the President set to announce further action and commitments on climate during his so-called “Climate Day” tomorrow. Although Biden has moved quickly to try and repair the climate carnage and environmental vandalism caused by Trump, issuing landmark... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 15, 2021 Impeached Twice, Trump's Presidency Was a Climate Disaster Many people are rightly preoccupied by the unfolding political events in Washington with Donald Trump becoming the first ever President to be impeached twice and Joe Biden waiting to formally take office next week. After the horrific, tumultuous events of last week with the assault on the Capital... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 20, 2020 Crisis, What Climate Crisis? Oil Majors Still Sitting on Tens of Billions of Barrels of Undeveloped Reserves I cannot help but wonder as I look at the images of the devastation caused by Hurricanes Iota and Eta across Central America, and if Big Oil had acted decades earlier to address climate change, whether these hurricanes would have happened at all. We will never know the answer, of course. But as the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation to the Supreme Court "Would Be a Catastrophe for the Climate" This week, President Trump’s highly controversial pick for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, answers questions in front of the Senate Judiciary committee as part of her nomination hearings for the top legal job. Coney Barrett’s nomination to the vacant seat on the Supreme court vacated by the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 19, 2020 A Dying Industry is Leaving A Deadly Legacy Another day and another huge blow to the fossil fuel industry. A key investor in the new coal mine in Australia, operated by mining giant Glencore, has said it will not invest in the AUD 1.5 billion Valeria project as the economics "don't stack up" anymore. The oil industry may be dying, but it... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Hothouse US: Catastrophic Fires Spreading Smoke From the West; Five Cyclones To the East The deadly future that scientists warned us about is here. For years, climate scientists modeled how if we made the earth hotter, the heat had consequences. Unrelenting heat dries vegetation and makes it more likely to burn. It warms the oceans, increasing the fuel available for tropical cyclones... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 09, 2020 Climate Emergency: Records Tumble as 2 Million Acres of California Burn The signs are ominous as yet another climate record is broken. California is once again burning. From near the southern Mexico border, to San Diego and the forests of the Sierra Nevada, over two million acres of the Golden state were on fire yesterday. As the state sweltered in record temperatures... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 02, 2020 “Humiliation”: Exxon Dumped Out Dow Jones Industrial Index After Nearly 100 Years The big financial news yesterday was that, despite the pandemic, Wall Street just recorded its best August in more than 30 years. However, history was also made in what is yet another seismic shift in the financial clout of the oil industry. The once mighty Exxon suffered the corporate humiliation... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 31, 2020 We Have Entered the "End Game" for Oil—With "Permanent Demand Destruction" With many countries and regions trying to open up their economies after COVID-19 lockdowns, many in the oil industry had been hoping that as hundreds of millions of people resume as normal a life as possible, demand for oil would pick up to pre-COVID levels. This is not going to happen. The "old... Read more |