A big week for climate hearings.
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Manchin’s Inflation Reduction Act: What’s Good and Bad for Climate
A breakdown of what’s in the IRA
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IHS Markit Report: “Guyana aims to strengthen institutions to avoid petro-state pitfalls”
A report from IHS Markit, part of S&P Global, on Guyana’s burgeoning fossil fuel industry. Report authors note that “Guyana is laying the groundwork to address pitfalls that have plagued the world’s petro-states for decades. Good-governance institutional reforms aimed at managing oil revenues, mitigating corruption, regulating the upstream sector, and ensuring political stability are not […]
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False Friends of the Court, with Senator Whitehouse
Why every rightwing think tank has an amicus program
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Big Fossil’s Disaster-Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine
The gas industry moved quickly to capture the narrative in the early days of the invasion, going from disinformation blitz to policy wins within a matter of weeks.
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IEEFA Report on 2016 Petroleum Agreement between Exxon and Guyana
IEEFA analyst Tom Sanzillo writes: “Guyana government officials face an upcoming decision on a request to renew an environmental permit for offshore oil operations in the Liza 1 field, an extensive area of seabed owned by Guyana. ExxonMobil has requested that the government weaken the environmental protections contained in the prior permit. Although Guyana and […]
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As Australia Heads to the Polls, a Look at Greenwashing & CSS
Australia’s “gas-fired” pandemic recovery, enabled by CCS and “clean” hydrogen
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Summary of IEEFA Report Findings: 2016 Petroleum Agreement Between Guyana, ExxonMobil, et. al.
This report summarizes three IEEFA studies and several analytical commentaries on the 2016 petroleum agreement (the “contract”) entered into between the government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil), CNOOC Nexen Petroleum Guyana Limited and Hess Guyana Exploration Limited. The agreement governs oil exploration, production and profit sharing between […]
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Zimbabwe Critical Infrastructure law proposal
Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2019, call for public comment.
