In the last two decades, palm oil has become an environmental boogeyman, an ingredient that conscious consumers should try to avoid. The oil, found in everything from baby shampoo to ice cream, earned its bad reputation. Over the last 30 years, palm oil companies leveled acre upon acre of treesContinue Reading
The Biden administration takes the next step toward approving an Alaska oil project opposed by environmentalists. Meanwhile, California has its own proposal on use of the Colorado River, and the Senate introduces a bipartisan bill to restrict SPR sales to China. This is Energy & Environment, your source for theContinue Reading
Imagine that the future of civilization is being decided at a poker table. The four players are the chairman of ExxonMobil, the distinguished climate scientist James Hansen, climate activist Greta Thunberg, and the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, one of America’s most flood-prone cities. The game is Texas Hold’em. TheContinue Reading
The House approved a bill that seeks to set stipulations on when a president can withdraw oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Meanwhile, Chevron posts record profits and Elon Musk meets with the White House about electric vehicles. This is Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focusedContinue Reading
On 8 March 2022, dozens of Indonesian contract farmers gathered in front of the local parliament building at Sintang, West Kalimantan, to protest against three palm oil companies. These contract farmers, also known as “plasma smallholders”, work under a scheme with a company that sends field workers to plant onContinue Reading
The open seas are crucial for sustaining human life: they feed us, generate the oxygen we rely on and regulate our climates. They are also homes to thousands of species of animals and microorganisms that form incredible marine ecosystems. Yet irresponsible human activities, like deep-sea fracking, disposing of untreated waterContinue Reading
An oil spill into Corpus Christi Bay has left lingering questions into what the full impact will be to wildlife and the environment, as well as to how effectively officials notified the public. The spill was first reported on Dec. 24, originating from a pipe failure at the Flint HillsContinue Reading
An oil spill into Corpus Christi Bay has left lingering questions into what the full impact will be to wildlife and the environment, as well as to how effectively officials notified the public. The spill was first reported on Dec. 24, originating from a pipe failure at the Flint HillsContinue Reading
President of Ijaw National Congress, Prof Benjamin Okaba, shares his thoughts with DANIELS IGONI on oil spill in the Niger Delta and the clean-up of Ogoniland, among other issues Shell recently announced that it would pay €15m to farmers in three Niger Delta communities as compensation for damages to theirContinue Reading
The collapse of Venezuela’s once prolific oil industry has triggered an economic and humanitarian crisis that accelerated in 2019 after U.S. President Donald Trump implemented strict sanctions cutting the Maduro regime off from international energy markets. It isn’t only Venezuela’s economy and people which have suffered from a foundering hydrocarbonContinue Reading
