"Will you act on your word to reject fossil fuel money in the future in your campaign?" the activist asked. "I do not have—I have money from people who have worked for fossil fuel companies," Clinton said, pointing her fingers at the activist. 

The first right turn on our road trip brings us to a sweeping view of the Texas Republican's Energy Renaissance Act, a proposal so studded with fossil fuel favors that it ought be called the "Exxon Mobil Relief Act."

Too often, this is framed as a false choice—“fossil fuels” versus “renewables,” economic growth versus environmental stewardship, “dirty” versus “clean.” This binary framing implies that simple, clear options exist.

Tehan called for immediate amendments to environmental laws that he claims are stalling critical fossil fuel projects. "We should look at coal-to-liquid fuel. We should look at drilling for oil," he told Sky News.

fuel resources.

California's push to phase out fossil fuels has accelerated the closure of the refineries that still supply fuel to its military bases, airports, and 40 million drivers.

With the United States no longer playing the fool, public and private entities are withdrawing from or reducing their climate commitments and reembracing fossil fuels.

President Donald Trump is traveling to southern Texas on Feb. 27 to promote his economic and fossil fuel agenda. The president is set to speak in Corpus Christi, the nation’s top exporter of liquefied natural gas.

Global Expansion of Fossil Fuel Production Canavan’s comment came as major economies around the world are implementing new policies to step up their fossil fuel production. On Nov. 7, 2025, the U.S.

Despite this acknowledgment that the path to lower emissions and pollution—improving public health—is through fossil fuels, the IEA isn’t willing to say the plain truth: Africa needs fossil fuels.

A U.S. judge on April 15 dismissed a federal government lawsuit seeking to stop Hawaii from ​suing fossil fuel companies in state court over climate-related actions. U.S.

"Since the start of the Middle East conflict, our bill for fossil fuel imports increased by 25 billion [euros]. Without a single molecule more of energy," she wrote in an X post on April 24. "We need to reduce our overdependency on fossil fuels.

The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.

Instead, a significant portion of it is tied up in a system that requires fossil fuels to grow crops that are then turned into fuel to supplement fossil fuels.

If this index outperforms others linked to the extraction of carbon, it will give wary investors (who have to do right by their clients) the license to divest from fossil fuel companies.

A federal appeals court upheld on June 2 the dismissal of a lawsuit brought on behalf of 22 children challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuel development. The U.S.

If left unchecked, Europe’s embrace of near-total disarmament; shocking demographic decline; unending hostility toward fossil fuels and nuclear energy; mass illegal immigration from the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere; and steadily expanding socialism

Against such minimal or nonexistent benefits, such laws will likely increase U.S fossil fuel prices to consumers, reduce production and employment in the U.S fossil fuel industry, and increase U.S. dependence on foreign fossil fuel production.

And the agenda is simply they were going to replace fossil fuels with green energy that is unreliable and inefficient, and they’ve lost their global competitiveness.

may carry out federally authorized fossil fuel development on its own lands."

When governments require shifts from cheaper to more expensive energy options (such as from fossil fuels to more expensive renewables), they raise energy costs across the entire economy.

Levine’s predecessor, Brad Lander, criticized these asset managers last year over what he said was their unwillingness to use their corporate proxy votes to push companies to implement anti-fossil-fuel policies. 

Persuading the world to abandon its fossil fuel reserves and leave them in the ground is what it will take in order not to bake this planet. It's the tallest of orders, but never has anything been so important.

Second, the Green New Deal—the ambitious plan to wean the United States from fossil fuels—was and continues to be an energy belly flop.

The moves come as the administration has aggressively championed fossil fuels while stopping or challenging offshore wind projects citing national security, as well as economic and environmental concerns in some cases.

Energy Costs Remain a Risk Japan remains particularly vulnerable to swings in global energy markets because it imports nearly all of its fossil fuels.

The Sierra Club is calling for the state to permanently protect the national preserve around the facility from future development, fossil fuel exploration, and drilling.

The idea of “leapfrogging” fossil fuels and moving straight to renewables is delusional.

“The current volatility in global fossil fuel markets underlines the benefit of homegrown nuclear electricity to Britain,” EDF Energy UK Chair Sir Alex Chisholm said in comments included in the briefing notes.