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COMMON DREAMS: A ‘Landmark Victory’ for Consumers and Climate as California Passes Big Oil Price Gouging Law “Whether it’s price gouging at the pump or drilling in people’s backyards, Big Oil’s days of harming our health and our pocketbooks must end,” said one advocate. BRETT WILKINS Mar 28, 2023 Climate and consumer advocates on Tuesday …
“OIL CAPITALISM — Diamond Offshore takes $9.7m from American taxpayers, then earmarks the same amount to execs as bankruptcy bonuses.” “The Trump administration’s favor factory hasn’t stopped with a global pandemic,” Accountable.US spokesperson Jayson O’Neill said in a statement Friday. “As millions of jobs disappear week after week, the Trump administration is prioritizing aid for …
“The Bureau of Land Management was well aware that current oil and gas drilling practices would not protect sources of drinking water in these Montana communities, but rushed the sale anyway,” Forsyth added. “ Court vacates nearly 300 oil and gas leases on public lands The HILL: By Rachel Frazin – 05/04/20 A federal court …
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Disaster Capitalism:”For banks to take over the oil and gas companies, economic journalist Doug Henwood told Common Dreams Friday, they will be using assurances of funding from the Federal Reserve included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed in March to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. Henwood said he found it “appalling” that public …
Senators Requesting Big Oil Bailouts Received Millions in Big Oil Donations Trump’s Move to Suspend Enforcement of Environmental Laws is a Lifeline to the Oil Industry Inside Climate News: The American Petroleum Institute sought the EPA’s help for companies hurt by COVID-19. One former EPA official called the suspension “an open license to pollute.” By …
“These lawsuits are an important step for society to free itself from the grasp of this lethal industry. Most directly, the suits can provide the billions necessary for communities to repair climate damages and fortify their infrastructure for the storms ahead. And if these cases are successful, Big Oil will finally be forced to assume …
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