With promises of Singapore- and Shanghai-style ports and businesses, Japan’s development agencies are pushing fossil fuel projects in Bangladesh
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Greenpeace Fights for Survival Against a Fossil Fuel Giant’s $345-Million “SLAPP” Suit
Energy Transfer’s lawsuit set up the First Amendment battle of the year and threatens to silence support for grassroots protest against the fossil fuel industry.
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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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Inside a Pipeline Giant’s Bid to Block Greenpeace’s Historic Anti-Intimidation Lawsuit
A Fieldnotes investigation reveals Energy Transfer is using an astroturf group run by a powerful DC shadow lobbying firm in a bid to block a first-of-its-kind countersuit in the Netherlands.
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“We Don’t Deserve This”: Survivors of Super Typhoon Odette File Claims Against Shell
Last week the survivors of Super Typhoon Odette that struck the Philippines in 2021 filed what may be the most ambitious climate lawsuit to date against global oil giant Shell.
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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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Selling Seaweed: An Australian Green Startup’s Chemical Insurance Policy
Sea Forest embodied the promise of green capitalism: grow seaweed, solve climate, get rich. It appears the company was playing with a stacked deck.
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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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In Attempt to Spam Climate Information Integrity Investigation, Australia’s Climate Skeptics Score an Own Goal
In attempting to thwart the investigation, anti-climate and anti-renewables groups revealed important information about themselves and why such an inquiry was necessary in the first place.