The White House is threatening to veto the House Republicans’ pro-fossil-fuel legislative package that defies President Joe Biden’s progressive climate-focused agenda. The 175-page bill, known as the Lower Energy Costs Act and given the symbolic priority of H.R. 1, is heading to a vote later this week. The package includes measures that would, among many…

A climate change protester has spray-painted the Woodside Energy logo onto the front doors of Western Australia (WA) parliament house to criticise the government’s investment in fossil fuels. The protest action on Thursday was part of a campaign by WA-based climate change group Disrupt Burrup Hub. The group targets Burrup Hub, which it described as…

The Liberal government has released its “just transition” plan that claims it will not trigger massive unemployment in the country’s energy towns. Released on Feb. 17, the “Sustainable Jobs Plan” says the federal government aims to create “sustainable jobs” in every region of Canada as it looks to move the country to a “net-zero world.”…

Australia’s third most populous state, Queensland, will fast-track approvals for Ampol to upgrade one of the two remaining oil refineries in the nation within two years. Acting Premier Steven Miles has declared the stock exchange-listed fossil fuel producer’s upgrade of its ageing Brisbane plant to produce low-sulphur petrol by the end of 2024, when it…

The State of Kentucky on Tuesday released a list of 11 financial companies that included BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase, warning that they are at risk of divestment because of their ideologically driven boycott of the fossil fuel industry. “When companies boycott fossil fuels, they intentionally choke off the lifeblood of capital to Kentucky’s signature industries,”…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) decried his colleagues for playing “toxic tribal politics” as the West Virginia Democrat continues to face opposition from members within both parties to a scheme to loosen regulations on fossil fuel permitting. Manchin’s proposal would make it easier for new fossil fuel ventures to receive a federal green light. Currently, these…

Most people are taught that petroleum is formed deep under the Earth over the course of millions of years and is derived from the remains of plankton, plants, and other biological organisms. This explanation is stated matter-of-factly on certain government and educational websites. This theory for oil formation is, however, just that—a theory. There is…

Commentary The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) came and went with less fanfare than these gatherings usually have. The annual gabfest provides the opportunity for activists, politicians, and celebrities to fly private jets across the world to gather in luxury hotels and chide people for their consumption of petrochemical products. Usually, many nations…

It’s for the world to double down on efforts to reach net zero, according to a report released last week by the United Nation’s “High-level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities,” a group of international environmentalists the institution formed in March. The group was tasked with investigating how to develop stronger…

Commentary Australia Energy Minister Chris Bowen left the country on the weekend to attend COP27 at the luxurious location of Sharm-el-Sheik on the Red Sea, Egypt. Leaving aside the huge carbon emissions just for getting himself there, one would have thought that presiding over the steepest rise in energy prices since records began should be…