Shell talks a good game when it comes to climate change and to Arctic drilling, and we can expect to hear more of this rhetoric at the firm's annual shareholder meeting in The Hague. But look closer, and you see a company whose actions consistently fail to live up to its positive rhetoric.
Washington DC - March 19, 2015 - President Obama signed an executive order today to reduce carbon pollution from the federal government’s operations by encouraging increased use of renewable energy and energy efficiency. In response, Greenpeace Climate and Energy Campaign Director Kelly Mitchell said:
Washington DC - March 17, 2015 - In a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies today, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell called for an “honest and open conversation about modernizing the federal coal program,” and asked “How do we manage the program in a way that is consistent with our climate change objectives?” In response, Greenpeace coal campaigner Diana Best said:
Washington DC - Documents obtained by Greenpeace and the Climate Investigations Center through public records requests shed new light on the influence of fossil fuel interests on the research of Dr. Willie Soon, which has been prominently promoted by climate denier politicians like Senator Inhofe. Dr. Soon, an aerospace engineer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has received over $1 million from fossil fuel interests including ExxonMobil, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the American Petroleum Institute, as well as Southern Company, a major coal burning utility, and anonymous donations through DonorsTrust.
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