The “Fueling Ecocide” investigation, led by Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF) and European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), reveals that oil and gas licenses overlap with 7,000 protected areas worldwide. The total overlap is 690,000 km², an area bigger than the size of France – despite existing regulations and ongoing efforts to safeguard key biodiversity zones.
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The Kill Step, Part One: “They’re Waiting for Someone to Wink”
Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. How did Greenpeace wind up taking the fall for it?
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The Kill Step, Part Two: “What the hell is this bullshit?
Energy Transfer tasked its security and law firms with building a RICO case against protestors almost as soon as Standing Rock began.
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The Kill Step, Part Four: “How many of you feel the same way?”
Step one to winning a show trial: pick the right venue, and you’ll get the right jury.
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The Kill Step, Part Five: “It’s part of the treaty.”
As Energy Transfer tries to prove its case against Greenpeace, the tribe is erased from the story.
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The Kill Step, Part Six: “We believed that to be true.”
Amidst Energy Transfer’s claims, a return to what it was all about in the first place: the water.
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The Kill Step, Part Seven: “They’re Scumbags.”
This is the final installation of a seven-part series produced in partnership with Grist as a companion to the SLAPP’d season of the Drilled podcast. You can see all seven pieces together in a beautiful layout over on Grist’s site, where you’ll also find other great climate stories. You can also find the rest of […]
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“All Hell Breaks Loose”: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town
Three export terminals that represent half of the U.S. crude oil export industry have sprouted up around Ingleside on the Bay in the past decade, turning the Texas Coastal Bend town into an unlikely fenceline community.
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In Colombia, Chevron has a habit of buying carbon credits from projects made behind indigenous people’s backs.
Leaders of the Cotuhé Putumayo indigenous reservation, in the Colombian Amazon, say that they do not know about the carbon credit project taking place on their land, which has sold more than 3 million credits. The largest purchaser of credits in the project is a local subsidiary of U.S. oil company Chevron.
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Slow Factory’s Céline Semaan on Climate Justice, Collective Liberation, and Building an Unbreakable Movement
When Céline Semaan began calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, she was surprised at the backlash she and her team at Slow Factory got, including multiple funders pulling their support. Today, Semaan is more determined than ever to push for climate justice and collective liberation.