Big Oil

Oil Pipeline Breaks Keep Coming

UPDATE 4:41pm: Reuters now reports the pipeline hasn’t stopped spilling & that the rate could be up to 25,000 gallons (600 barrels) of oil per hour. An oil pipeline owned … Read more

“Astroturf Is A Petroleum Product”

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Big Oil Cuts Jobs Again, Even as They Sponsor Bogus Job Rallies

No lie is too big for Big Oil.  Their tired refrain of late is that they’re job makers. On TV, radio, in print and at bogus Astroturf rallies happening this week. … Read more

North Dakota: The Spills Keep Coming (Video)

NWF’s Tim Warman made the point in a guest column in this week’s Newsweek Magazine, the BP spill is not an isolated incident. Last week a mix of crude and … Read more

Roll Out the Astroturf! Big Oil’s Bringing Fake Rallies Back

The next time you hear of “citizen” outrage about clean energy & climate action, make sure you know who’s really pulling the strings.
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Massive Oil Lobby Spending Sets Stage for Bogus “Citizen” Rallies

The oil and gas industry went hog wild with lobbying in 2009 to defeat climate legislation and industry reforms, says a series of reports this week from the independent Center for Responsive … Read more

Groups Launch Effort to Hold Senate Oil Backers Accountable

In the latest effort to hold Big Oil and their recalcitrant friends in the Senate accountable for sinking climate legislation this summer, a new group called Oil Change International has launched a web campaign … Read more

Big Oil to Mount (Another) Assault on Clean Air Act

Feeling emboldened with scuttling clean energy and climate legislation for the summer, Big Oil is ready to go on the offensive and gut the Clean Air Act, one of the … Read more

Big Oil Bailout Defeated! Time for Senate to do Climate Bill (Video)

A huge thanks to NWF members and partners who turned up the heat on the Senate in recent days as it rejected an awful Big Oil Bailout proposal. With a … Read more

Showdown Today on Big Oil Bailout in Senate

By Washington, DC standards this is high drama.  A close vote is expected that sets the stage for whether the government can move aggressively to rein in global warming pollution. … Read more