Winning awards is usually considered a good thing. There are, however, various tongue-in-cheek honours that are more about mocking their recipients than celebrating their work.
During a hearing Thursday, Democrats compared Big Oil's tactics to those long deployed by the tobacco industry to resist regulation “while selling products that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans."
Giving companies like Microsoft, which is the biggest tech partner to the fossil fuel industry, a principal partner position at COP26, is more than just a bad message, say the authors, it gives them space that should be reserved for non-polluters.
Canadians are — and will remain — among the biggest consumers of energy over the next decade even as policies ramp up to make the country more energy-efficient, a global energy forecast suggests.
A resolution calling for the Anglo-Dutch company to set binding carbon emissions reduction targets received 30 per cent of votes at the oil company’s annual meeting on Tuesday.