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AXA’s Investment Arm to Divest Oil and Gas Climate Laggards After Three Years
Nov 8 2021 // GLASGOW – The fund arm of French insurer AXA said on Monday it would take a tougher line with oil and gas companies over their environmental impact, selling out of laggards after three years if their emissions-reduction...
Vietnam Negotiates With Iran for Release of Seized Oil Tanker
Nov 5 2021 // HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Vietnam was seeking more information Thursday about a Vietnamese oil tanker that was seized at gunpoint last month by Iranian soldiers in the Gulf of Oman, while vowing to ensure the safety and...
Coal in Crosshairs as UN Climate Summit Brings Raft of Clean Energy Pledges
Nov 4 2021 // GLASGOW – Government representatives at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow on Thursday will turn their focus to tackling the global economy’s addiction to fossil fuels with a raft of new pledges aimed at...
AXA Tightens Policy for Insuring, Investing in Oil & Gas Ahead of COP26 Summit
Nov 1 2021 // AXA, France’s biggest insurer, said on Friday it would tighten its policy regarding investing in and insuring the oil and gas sector, as pressure builds on finance to help curtail new production. The announcement,...
Climate Protesters Spill 1,000 Liters of Fake Oil Outside Lloyd’s of London
Oct 29 2021 // Climate protesters spilled a 1,000 liters (220 gallons) of fake oil outside Lloyd’s of London Friday, part of a campaign to draw attention to the finance industry’s financing of fossil fuels. The activists were...
Legal Fights over California Oil Spill Likely to Last Years
Oct 13 2021 // It took little more than 48 hours from the moment a major oil spill was discovered off Southern California until the first lawsuit was filed against the Houston company that owns and operates the ruptured pipeline. Finding...
Popular California Beach City Reopens After Massive Oil Spill
Oct 12 2021 // A Southern California beach that was closed more than a week ago because of a leak of crude oil from an undersea pipeline reopened on Monday, far sooner than many expected, City and state beaches in Huntington Beach...
Oil & Gas Services Company Sued for Racial Harassment, Retaliation at Texas Site
Oct 11 2021 // Federal equal employment officials say an Oklahoma-based inspection services company subjected black employee to a racially hostile work environment, then fired him for complaining. The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Investigators Board Ship That Was Anchored Near California Oil Pipeline
Oct 8 2021 // U.S. Coast Guard investigators have boarded a massive cargo ship as they probe what caused the rupture of an offshore oil pipeline that sent crude washing up on Southern California beaches. The Coast Guard is investigating...
Report: A Fifth of U.S. Insurance Company Board Members Have Worked in Fossil Fuel Industry
Oct 7 2021 // A report out Thursday from a climate change advocacy group alleges that more than one-fifth of U.S. insurance company board members have worked for the fossil fuel industry, and that two-thirds of all U.S. insurance...
Nigerian Oil Producer Sues Shell for More Than $2B Over Ownership of Wells
Oct 7 2021 // A Nigerian oil producer sued Royal Dutch Shell Plc for more than $2 billion over the ownership of oil wells, intensifying a dispute around an asset sale completed six years ago. Aiteo Eastern E&P Co. Ltd. claims that...
Slow Response to Report of California Oil Spill, Records Show
Oct 6 2021 // The U.S. Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than 12 hours before a company reported the major leak in its pipeline and a cleanup effort was launched,...
Officials Probe If Ship Anchor Caused California Oil Spill as Cleanup Continues
Oct 4 2021 // More oil from a massive offshore spill landed on the southern California shore on Monday, with beaches closed and dead fish and birds washing up on shore as officials investigated whether a ship anchor striking a pipeline...
California Oil Spill Called ‘Environmental Catastrophe’
Oct 4 2021 // HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.— A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe. The U.S....
Company to Pay $15M in Fines in North Dakota Oil Spill Case
Sep 28 2021 // The company responsible for the largest oil field spill in North Dakota pleaded guilty to criminal charges after reaching an agreement with the federal government to pay $15 million in fines. Summit Midstream Partners...
Damage from Hurricane Ida to Cut Shell Oil Production Until Early Next Year
Sep 21 2021 // Royal Dutch Shell, the largest U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil producer, said damage to offshore transfer facilities from Hurricane Ida will cut production into early next year, slashing deliveries of a type of crude oil prized by...
After Ida Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Divers Put Containment Dome on Pipeline
Sep 10 2021 // The company overseeing the response to a large oil spill spurred by Hurricane Ida said that a containment dome has been placed over a broken undersea pipeline, stemming the flow into the Gulf of Mexico. Houston-based Talos...
Thanks to Oil Boom, N. Dakota County Sees Fastest Growth in US
Sep 8 2021 // First came the roughnecks and other oil field workers, almost all men. Lured by steady wages as the nation climbed out of the Great Recession, they filled McKenzie County’s few motel rooms, then began sleeping in...
State Recommends More Evacuations After Detroit-Area Fuel Leak
Sep 7 2021 // On Sept. 5, state officials in Michigan recommended more home evacuations in a Detroit suburb following an earlier fuel leak at the Ford Flat Rock Assembly Plant that spread flammable vapor in sewers. Response teams were...
U.S. Probing Nearly 350 Reports of Oil Spills in Hurricane Ida’s Wake
Sep 7 2021 // The U.S. Coast Guard said on Sept. 6 it was investigating nearly 350 reports of oil spills in and along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in the wake of Hurricane Ida. Ida’s 150 mile-per-hour (240 kph) winds wreaked havoc on...
