Oil Companies
The New Yorker Documentary
An Early Requiem for Oil
In the documentary short “Black Gold,” Sydney Bowie Linden offers a portrait of a California oil town and the anxieties of some of its residents who see an unwelcome transition on the horizon.
Shouts & Murmurs
A Breakup Letter from the U.S. Government to Big Oil
I should have left you after the first oil spill.
Annals of a Warming Planet
Big Oil’s Bad, Bad Day
Crushing blows to three of the world’s largest oil companies have made it clear that the arguments many have been making for decades have sunk in at the highest levels.
Annals of a Warming Planet
On Climate, Wall Street Out-Orwells Orwell
BlackRock’s C.E.O. says divestment from fossil-fuel stocks would be “greenwashing.”
Annals of a Warming Planet
Our Best Chance to Slow Global Warming Comes in the Next Nine Years
We are precisely halfway through the six-decade cycle that could delineate the crucial years of the climate crisis.
Daily Comment
When “Creatives” Turn Destructive: Image-Makers and the Climate Crisis
If money is the oxygen on which the fire of global warming burns, then P.R. campaigns and snappy catchphrases are the kindling.
Annals of a Warming Planet
The Most Important Global Forecast That You’ve Never Heard Of
A new scenario from the International Energy Agency that tries to foresee a world in which we reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 is a step in the right direction.
Annals of a Warming Planet
The World Has Reached Decision Time on the Climate Crisis
In 2020, biology, history, and physics are making the choice between transformation or disintegration clearer than ever.
Daily Comment
North Dakota Oil Workers Are Learning to Tend Wind Turbines—and That’s a Big Deal
In many ways, clean energy produces jobs at least as good as those in the oil fields, where boom-and-bust cycles make stability hard.
Annals of a Warming Planet
What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common
Oil companies don’t become solar companies for the same reason that Facebook doesn’t rein in misinformation.
Annals of a Warming Planet
Are We Past the Peak of Big Oil’s Power?
The political power of the fossil-fuel industry has always been the single biggest obstacle to making real progress in the fight against climate change, and it now seems to be weakening.
Annals of a Warming Planet
Big Oil’s Reign Is Finally Weakening
The removal of the former ExxonMobil C.E.O. Lee Raymond as the lead independent director of JPMorgan Chase’s board is a victory for climate activists after a decade of relentless campaigning.
Dispatch
How the Russian-Saudi Oil War Went Awry—for Putin Most of All
Unwilling to tap his country’s financial reserves, and facing a pandemic and ever-worsening oil prices, Putin became inclined to make a deal, but the details reveal its dangers for Russia.
Annals of a Warming Planet
Will the Coronavirus Kill the Oil Industry?
As a result of the virus, we may well have already seen the peak demand for petroleum on planet Earth.
Daily Comment
In the Midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Construction Is Set to Resume on the Keystone Pipeline
With a large Canadian investment and several new state laws designating pipelines as “critical infrastructure,” after a decade of protest, the project may be moving ahead—now that there is no one to stop it.
Annals of a Warming Planet
What Comes After Fossil Fuels?
The need for well remediation could provide ongoing work for precisely the workers who drilled them, allowing them an easier transition to the future.
Reflections
How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.
Letter from Luanda
Extreme City
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