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As Pandemic Paralyzes Global Economy, World Is 'Awash in Seas of Oil' With Nowhere Left to Store It

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'Moving to Rob Us Blind in Broad Daylight'? Trump to Hold In-Person Meeting With Big Oil CEOs to Discuss Coronavirus Relief

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Right now money is needed for people's health, direct relief, and making sure we have a resilient future—not bolstering the fossil fuel industry."

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Amid Climate Crisis and Raging Pandemic, Trump Blasted for 'Morally Bankrupt' Multibillion-Dollar Big Oil Bailout

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Mnuchin and Trump

"The last thing Trump should be doing in this time of generational crisis is...

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At 'Shock Doctrine Press Conference,' Trump Bails Out Oil Industry, Not US Families, as Coronavirus Crisis Intensifies

Jon Queally, staff writer

Surrounded by members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, US President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference on COVID-19, known as the coronavirus, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, March 13, 2020. (Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP)

"Trump has once again put the interests of oil and gas executives ahead of the...

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus response while flanked by Vice President Mike Pence during a briefing with health insurers at the White House on March 10, 2020.

'Corporate Socialists' Denounced as Trump Considers Fracking Industry Bailout Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Jane Fonda

'We Have to Get a Climate President in Office': Jane Fonda Says Sanders Is the Only Climate Candidate

Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) looks on as Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) speaks

Pelosi Carries Right-Wing Rep. Henry Cuellar Over Finish Line to Defeat Progressive Jessica Cisneros

Greenpeace UK shuts down Barclays branch

Activists Urging Barclays to 'Stop Funding the Climate Emergency' Shut Down Nearly 100 Branches Across UK

JPMorgan chase protest

Even 'Worst Fossil Fuel Banker' JPMorgan Chase Will No Longer Fund This Way of Destroying the Planet

Environmental and Indigenous activists protested outside a hall at the start of a plenary session during the COP25

'Amazing News': Climate Activists Celebrate Victory After Forcing Company to Abandon Proposed Tar Sands Project

Crudeau Oil protest

42 Nobel Laureates Urge Trudeau to Act With 'Moral Clarity' and Stop Climate-Wrecking Teck Frontier Mine

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

Over 570 Groups Endorse Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez's Fracking Ban Act as 'Essential and Urgent Climate Action'

Flames from a flaring pit

Study Suggests Fossil Fuel Use Emits Up to 40% More Climate-Heating Methane Than Previously Thought

'Surprised, No. Disgusted, Yes': Study Shows Deepwater Horizon Oil Spread Much Farther Than Previously Known

California Communities Sue Fossil Fuel Companies, Demanding State Court Hold Them Accountable for Climate Crisis

'Colonialism In All Its Ugliness': Indigenous Land Defenders Condemn Violent Police Raid on Camp Blocking Pipeline Construction

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Everything Is Not Awesome

Furious that Arctic-trashing Shell is using kid-friendly LEGO to clean up its image - reportedly selling 16 million Shell-branded toys worth $116 million - Greenpeace has begun a campaign aimed at pressuring LEGO to end the sketchy partnership. Protests at England's Legloland, and a darkly stunning new ad in which an idyllic Arctic, huskies and all, drowns in oil.

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Food & Water Watch

Trump’s Dangerous, Foolish Scheme to Rent Out Storage to Oil Companies

Western Values Project

Senators Requesting Big Oil Bailouts Received Millions in Big Oil Donations

350.org

350.org responds to announcement that TC Energy will proceed with Keystone XL pipeline

Western Values Project

Trump Unleashing Historic Carbon Pollution During Global Pandemic

Oil Change International

Oil Change International Response to Keystone XL Subsidy Announcement from Alberta

Friends of the Earth

Dirty Energy Pitfalls in Final $2T Stimulus

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Kelly Trout

The Loopholes Lurking in BP’s New Climate Aims

Robert Reich

5 Ways Donald Trump Has Not Drained the Swamp

Amanda Follett Hosgood

At the Unist'ot'en Outpost, a Tightknit Group Readies for Police

Wenonah Hauter

Banning Fracking: Politically Smart and a Climate Necessity

Hannah McKinnon

"Grand Coalitions" With Big Oil and Gas Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

Andy Rowell

Is BlackRock Announcement "Beginning of the End for Fossil-fuel System?"

Juan Cole

Trump Has Conducted a War on Iran for 19 Months; Iran Finally Hit Back

Juan Cole

Iraqi Parliament Resolves to Kick Out US Troops, and Trump Threatens Mother of All Sanctions

Wim Laven

Trump Must Be Removed From Office and We Must Create a Pathway to Peace

Juan Cole

While Americans Slept in 2019, Uprisings Reshaped Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, and Algeria