Amy Westervelt
The Guardian
Truckee, CA, United States
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Big oil firms touted algae as climate solution. Now all have pulled funding
Insiders aren’t surprised as ExxonMobil, the last remaining proponent of green algae biofuel, ends research → Read More
New Jersey latest state to sue oil companies over climate misinformation
The state is going after five oil companies – ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, Chevron, BP and ConocoPhillips – for their role in the climate crisis → Read More
The supreme court is in session – and every case is potentially a climate one
Sackett v EPA – an attack on the Clean Water Act – is by no means the only threat to climate policy before the court → Read More
Exxon doubles down on ‘advanced recycling’ claims that yield few results
The petroleum company is under investigation for misleading the public while exacerbating the global plastic pollution crisis → Read More
IPCC Report's Analysis of Fossil Fuel Industry Excluded From Policymakers' Brief
The role of industry was removed from the climate report's initial release that attracts the most media attention. → Read More
Scientists say IPCC climate report holds back against fossil-fuel interests
Experts say criticism of oil and gas’s ‘climate-blocking activities’ cut from final draft, reflective of industry’s power and influence → Read More
How oil companies rebranded deceptive climate ads as ‘free speech’
In two dozen climate liability cases, companies are arguing that their public statements about climate change are not ‘deceptive’ so much as persuasive – and protected free speech → Read More
Our climate solutions are failing
For the first time, a IPCC report has acknowledged the role of misinformation. But it still doesn’t name the culprits, says climate journalist Amy Westervelt → Read More
Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling
Elsevier’s work with fossil fuel companies ‘drags us towards disaster’, climate researcher says → Read More
The great greenwashing scam: PR firms face reckoning after spinning for big oil
A comprehensive study confirms that oil companies are largely all talk and no action when it comes to clean energy initiatives → Read More
Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice
The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains. Describing it this way is how to build a movement, says climate journalist Amy Westervelt → Read More
Why some of your favorite podcasts are filled with oil company ads
Exxon and other fossil fuel companies are running podcast ads that suggest they are taking aggressive climate action. Climate experts call them greenwashing → Read More
The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains
Few are household names, yet these 12 enablers and profiteers have an unimaginable sway over the fate of humanity → Read More
Big oil’s delay tactics are the new climate science denialism
Academic researchers say the fossil fuel industry engages in ‘wokewashing’ to divert attention away from the crisis → Read More
PR Firms Are Being Shamed For Helping Fossil Fuel Companies 'Green' Their Image
Marketing and advertising companies create slick campaigns to make the oil and gas industry look cleaner. Until they choose not to. → Read More
It Took A Pandemic To Prove Individual Actions Alone Won't Solve The Climate Crisis
The coronavirus reveals in stark terms the limits of our personal choices to affect climate change. → Read More
Jay Inslee Would Like Your Attention, Please
Washington's governor must use the first debate to emerge from obscurity—and prove that his climate plan is better than the Green New Deal. → Read More
Federal lawsuit takes aim at Nevada’s brothels
A former brothel worker’s lawsuit raises questions about the system — and about sex work. → Read More
How the fossil fuel industry got the media to think climate change was debatable
It actively worked to make scientific facts seems like partisan opinions. → Read More
The best way to make fathers help out at home? Home economics classes
Home ec classes could not only teach basic housekeeping to everyone but also a real-world approach to family planning → Read More