Mideast war exposes fragile oil, gas dependency
Paris (France) (AFP) - As in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, the new war in the Middle East is exposing ...
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TotalEnergies in high-stakes French trial over climate change
Paris (France) (AFP) - TotalEnergies faces cutting back oil and gas production if NGOs prevail in a trial that began ...
US lawmaker moves to shield oil companies from climate cases
Washington (United States) (AFP) - A US lawmaker is drafting legislation to block a wave of state and local climate-damage ...
Greenpeace slams fossil fuel sponsors for Winter Olympics
Milan (Italy) (AFP) - Greenpeace activists staged a protest in Milan on Thursday against the sponsorship of the Milan-Cortina Olympics ...
Czechs wind up black coal mining in green energy switch
Prague (AFP) - The Czech Republic will stop mining black coal at the end of January, closing its last mine ...
Venezuelan interim leader vows oil sector reform after Maduro ouster
Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela's interim president on Thursday announced pending legal reforms to the country's critical fossil fuel sector, as ...
Brazil oil drilling near Amazon halted over ‘fluid leak’
Sao Paulo (AFP) - Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt ...
ExxonMobil slows low-carbon investment push through 2030
New York (AFP) - ExxonMobil is slowing medium-term investments in low-carbon ventures by some $10 billion compared with its outlook ...
Amazon summit seals climate deal without fossil fuel plan
Belém (Brazil) (AFP) - Nations sealed a modest deal at the UN climate summit in the Amazon Saturday, as Europe ...
UN climate talks deadlocked as EU pushes fossil-fuel phaseout
Belém (Brazil) (AFP) - The UN's COP30 climate talks spilled into overtime on Saturday, with the European Union in a ...
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