Despite U.S. claims of legal impunity, companies engaging in the refining, shipping and sale of illegally seized oil—particularly those headquartered in the EU—might face judicial hurdles.
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Showing Our Work: The Real U.S. Oil Payoff in Venezuela, a Timeline
The U.S. invasion of Venezuela was at least partly driven by oil, but not in the ways most people are talking about.
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U.S. Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too
The Trump administration’s oil grab and plans to expand Venezuelan production flouts last year’s landmark climate ruling from the International Court of Justice.
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The U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana Oil Triangle
The U.S. interest in Venezuela isn’t just about the oil there, but also about the oil next door in Guyana, and the U.S. oil companies that have staked their future on it.
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Isolated and Without Food in Brazil’s Corn Ethanol Capital
Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso, birthplace of Brazil’s first 100% corn ethanol plant, claims to be sustainable while its population suffers from pesticide contamination, high temperatures, food shortages, and extreme weather shifts exacerbated by climate change.
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COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
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Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?
Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations.
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The Day the Mountains Won
How a Peruvian farmer sued a German coal giant and helped create a legal blueprint to hold fossil producers accountable for climate harms.
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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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Dispatch: For a Preview of Project 2025, Look to Argentina
It’s hard for people to imagine the environmental impacts of fascism until they experience them firsthand. Argentina holds a warning for the U.S.
