Big Oil Scores $56B Windfall on Spiking Fuel Prices [1]
"Big Oil reaped more than $50 billion in windfall profits as conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Russia roiled energy markets and drove refining results to record highs."

"Big Oil reaped more than $50 billion in windfall profits as conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Russia roiled energy markets and drove refining results to record highs."
"Heating oil, gas and electricity are driving campaigns across the U.S., but the elections will also determine the future of clean energy."
"In the final stretch of the 2026 midterm campaigns, the most potent climate issue in American politics arrived by delivery truck across the country.
"Large batteries that store electricity have revolutionized power grids and car markets. Now some start-ups are betting that “heat batteries” could be just as transformative."
"The conditional commitment aims to boost output across 15 reactors in three states, expanding clean power capacity far faster than building new reactors."
"The Trump administration loves coal plants. The rest of us are paying the price in higher electricity bills, poorer health, and worsening climate change." "A new report finds nearly half of U.S. coal plants benefit from federal handouts and pollution exemptions, harming public health, our wallets, and the climate."
"An oil spill from a damaged tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates has widened, satellite images showed, triggering more beach closures and raising environmental concerns."
"Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders chose to let it resume operations."
"The sponsors of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act say it will improve energy infrastructure development. The truth is that it will fast-track environmental destruction."
"Headlines say the dirtiest fossil fuel is “back in fashion” — but there's much more to the story."
"Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone."
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