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Exclusive: Australian scientific agency rejects ‘ghostwriting’ claims made by US law firm representing victims of Deepwater Horizon oil spillGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Greens have warned that fossil fue…
Advocates warned of ‘tragic consequences’ should the project in a remote part of northern Alaska go aheadA federal judge has upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow oil-drilling project in a remote part of northern Alaska in a move tha…
Energy firm’s lawsuit seeks indefinite block on protesters targeting its infrastructureBusiness live – latest updatesShell is suing Greenpeace for $2.1m in damages in one of the biggest ever legal threats against the group after its campaigners occupie…
Campaigners call Graham Stuart’s comments ‘laughable’ and say Conservatives are weaponising climate actionOil and gas are “not the problem” for the climate, but the carbon emissions arising from them are, the UK’s net zero minister has told MPs.In word…
Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’The world’s fossil fuel producers are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over, a UN report h…
Why Rishi Sunak signalled changes in the king’s speech – and whether it will result in lower billsThe government has confirmed its plans to grant new North Sea oil and gas licences every year at the opening of parliament, deepening a political fault li…
Government aiming to limit rights of railway workers, ambulance staff and border officials to go on strikeRishi Sunak has not accepted that Suella Braverman’s description of rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” was offensive – although he declined to…
Campaigners accuse government of failing to stick to promises made at Cop26 climate summit in 2021UK politics live – latest updatesBeef, soy and palm oil products driving deforestation are still being imported into the UK, despite government promises t…
French banks have financed $154bn to firms running biggest fossil fuel projects since 2015 climate pactFrance is Europe’s biggest supporter of “carbon bomb” extraction projects that hold enough fossil fuels to pump out more than a gigaton of CO2 each, …
Results are company’s first since shock exit of its chief executive Bernard Looney last monthBP has reported weaker than expected profits of $3.3bn (£2.7bn) for the third quarter of this year amid lower global energy market prices and a slump in its ga…