Andy Rowell

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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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Barrett’s mentor was the arch conservative Antonin Scalia, who was similarly idolized by President Donald Trump. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/Getty Images) 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...
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"The oil industry may be dying, but it will still pollute us for decades after its death." 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...
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The Bobcat Fire burns on hillsides behind homes in Arcadia, California on September 13, 2020. (Photo: Frederic J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images) 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...
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A home is engulfed in flames during the "Creek Fire" in the Tollhouse area of unincorporated Fresno County, California early on September 8, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images) 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...
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"Do not underestimate the significance of this moment," writes Rowell, "Exxon is the oldest member of the influential Index, having joined in 1928." (Photo: Thomas Hawk/flickr/cc) 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...
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The research examined wind power for five countries in Europe and found that offshore wind is going to be so cheap that it will soon no longer need government subsidies to compete, and that significant savings could soon be potentially passed on to consumers. (Photo: arbyreed/Flickr/cc) 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...
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Ice floe with polar bear in Beaufort Sea. (Photo: NOAA Photo Library) Views
Monday, July 27, 2020
Climate Change: Mind-Blowing Warnings from Arctic and Antarctica
2020 is continuing to bring deeply worrying climate news from both the Arctic and the Antarctic. First the Arctic, where our climate emergency is playing out in real time, with devastating consequences. Every day brings new horrors and new insights into how our climate emergency is driving the...
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"We thus demand the Duterte administration, through the Philippine Congress, to repeal the Anti-Terrorism law and stop it becoming effective next week." (Photo: Twitter, @ICHRPGlobal) Views
Friday, July 17, 2020
ACT NOW in the Philippines: We Need You to Stand Against the #JunkTerrorLaw
The clock is ticking. We need you to act now. There is growing international pressure on the Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, to repeal a controversial, dangerous, draconian Terror Bill, which is in the process of becoming law in the country. Having been approved by Duterte, it will become...
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We cannot go back to the dirty past, otherwise we will have no collective future. (Photo: Extinction Rebellion) Views
Monday, July 13, 2020
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Are "Dominating Climate Policy Battles During COVID-19"
For months, a growing chorus of activists, academics, analysts, financiers, and frontline communities have clearly articulated that there should be no Big Oil bailout as governments plot COVD-19 recovery plans. Their voices join many others in arguing that we need a global reset in the wake of the...
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It is clear that nobody should be bailing out the polluters when their profits are evaporating, when they are laying off workers and their pipelines cannot get built. (Photo: Andrew Hart/flickr/cc) Views
Friday, July 10, 2020
As Arctic Temperatures Soar, Trump Lavishes Fossil Fuel Industry With Billions in Bailouts
The Arctic is once again on fire. And the extremely warm temperatures in the region—and concurrent wildfires—are another urgent reminder that we need to divest from fossil fuels as soon as possible. They are a pressing reminder that any post COVID-19 bailout should be focused on an immediate just...
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