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 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 |
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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... Read more |
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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... Read more |