Andy Rowell News Today

 

Welcome to Energy Day aka Fossil Fuel Phaseout Day. Today is packed with new data, press conferences, expected new announcements, actions and more - all with the same goal: a full, fast, fair, and funded phase out of fossil fuels. 

The oil giant Shell spends millions of dollars each year to anticipate the future to try and predict the unpredictable. In a corporate game of crystal-ball gazing, Shell likes to play the long game, looking decades into the future to predict upcoming geopolitical or technological trends.

Josh Alfred, a sketch comedian from Nigeria, went viral in 2022 with a sketch where he plays a talent show contestant claiming to be the fastest reader in the world. In 2023, America’s Got Talent brought him on do the character live.

It is abundantly clear that the production and consumption of fossil gas must decline immediately, even if methane reduction goals are met.

Religious groups are stepping up to fill gaps in the government’s precarious climate response.

Our investigation reveals secretive funding sources for think tanks that boast of influencing the government

A PRO-VAPING group and a public relations firm in London were behind an astroturf campaign targeting Scottish Government proposals to regulate the…

Oil companies hid knowledge of global heating for decades, but the captains of petroleum also schemed to turn the ecological crisis into a profit centre.

Sanctioned weapons mogul who supplied Russia’s troops has ties to Philip Morris