Oil Change International is a research, communication, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming transition towards clean energy. The production and consumption of oil, gas, and coal are major sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality.
News
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Obama Scores A for Arctic and Atlantic Protection – Fails to Fight for Gulf
Today the Obama Administration once again demonstrated climate leadership by taking the Arctic Ocean off the table in its five-year offshore oil and gas drilling plan. The move was a logical next step from the exclusion of Atlantic waters announced earlier this year.
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RELEASE: Oil Change Int’l Responds to Marrakech UN Climate Negotiations
In response to the outcome of the COP22 climate negotiations in Morocco, Oil Change International released the following statements from its experts.
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Kerry to Trump: Don’t Make Climate Decisions Based on “Ideology”
Outgoing US Secretary of State John Kerry used his speech at the UN COP climate talks in Marrakesh to lay down the gauntlet to incoming President Donald Trump on climate change.
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RELEASE: IEA “neglects Paris Agreement” with new World Energy Outlook
The International Energy Agency neglects the Paris Agreement with its new World Energy Outlook. The world needs better odds than a coin toss of avoiding dangerous climate change
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RELEASE: New Study Shows Canadian Fossil Fuel Subsidies Drastically Undermine Carbon Pricing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2016 Contacts: Alex Doukas, Oil Change International, +1 202 817 0357, alex@priceofoil.org Tim Ehlich, Environmental Defence, +1 647 468 3641, tehlich@environmentaldefence.ca Dale Robertson, Équiterre, +1 514 605 2000, drobertson@equiterre.org New Study Shows Canadian Fossil Fuel Subsidies Drastically Undermine Carbon Pricing Ottawa, ON – Today, four prominent Canadian environmental groups released a study that…
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Resources
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The Elephant in the Room: Canada’s Fossil Fuel Subsidies Undermine Carbon Pricing Efforts
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Carbon Trap: How International Coal Finance Undermines the Paris Agreement
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Briefing: Canada Not Running Out of Pipeline Capacity
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Fact Sheet: Fossil Free Finance at The World Bank
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The Sky’s Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production
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Briefing: Dakota Access Pipeline’s Massive Government Subsidies
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A Bridge Too Far: How Appalachian Basin Gas Pipeline Expansion Will Undermine U.S. Climate Goals
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Shorting the Climate: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2016
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Swept Under the Rug: How G7 nations conceal public financing for coal around the world
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Still Failing to Solve Energy Poverty
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World Bank Group Funds Fossil Fuel Exploration
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Factsheet: The Dirty Energy Money Cycle
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Briefing: BOEM 5 Year Offshore Drilling Plan and the Climate
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Tar Sands: The Myth of Tidewater Access
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OIL TAX FACTS: Dispelling North Sea Oil Myths
Projects
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Crude-by-Rail Resources
The Crude-by-Rail Resource Hub includes our interactive map charting major rail routes and terminals for the transport of crude oil by rail in the U.S. and Canada. The hub also contains our latest crude-by-rail reports and actions.
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RefineryReport.org
The Refinery Report project will develop and publish data on North America’s refineries, beginning with the amount of crude oil refined from the world’s dirtiest and most destructive source of oil: the Canadian tar sands.
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ShiftTheSubsidies.org
The Shift the Subsidies database is an interactive tool to visually track and analyze the flow of energy subsidies from international, regional and bilateral public financial institutions around the world.
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DirtyEnergyMoney.com
Dirty Energy Money is an interactive tool that tracks the flow of oil, gas and coal industry contributions to the US Congress.
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The Price of Oil Wheel
The price of oil per barrel doesn’t include all of oil’s hidden costs. Learn more about the true cost of oil by using the flash navigation tool.