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March 12, 2015
The Real Reason Behind the Oil Price Collapse
It’s not overproduction in shale fields, and it’s not global economic stagnation. It’s something far more threatening to Big Oil’s business model.
Michael T. Klare
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March 3, 2015
Royal Dutch Shell Wants to Look for Oil in the Most Dangerous Drilling Environment in the World
An ice-choked ocean, tens of thousands of whales, no proven technology in case of emergency and a mission for oil: what could possibly go wrong?
Subhankar Banerjee
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January 28, 2015
The Main Problem With Obama’s Climate Policy? It Makes No Sense
One week after the president stated that “no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” his administration proposes to open up vast stretches of ocean in the Atlantic and Arctic to oil and gas drilling.
Zoë Carpenter
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January 8, 2015
Big Energy Says the Future Is Bright and Full of SUVs for Everyone
Carbon companies have a new strategy: focus on the positive.
Michael T. Klare
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December 10, 2014
To Save the Planet, We Need to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground—but Oil Companies Have Other Plans
They say no to any “stranded assets.”
William D. Cohan
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November 25, 2014
4 Reasons Keystone Really Matters
Pipeline apologists tell us the president’s decision isn’t that important for the climate—the dirty oil will flow anyway. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Naomi Klein
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November 21, 2014
What Does it Take for One Small City to Vanquish an Oil Giant?
Progressives in Richmond, California, trounced Chevron on Election Day, but the company remains a powerful local force.
Harriet Blair Rowan and Jimmy Tobias
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November 18, 2014
The Grand Oil Party Takes Washington by Storm
Prepare for the new Republican majority to speed the exploitation of the country’s oil, coal and natural gas reserves.
Michael T. Klare
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October 9, 2014
Obama Is Fighting ISIS, Iran and Russia With… Oil?
How the US is using trade sanctions and other means to curb the oil exports of its foes.
Michael T. Klare
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October 1, 2014
The Invisible Oil in Louisiana’s Senate Race
The petrochemical industry is devastating the state, but no candidates dare take it on.
Zoë Carpenter