Polluters profiting from pandemic bailouts

5 October 2020

New research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a concerted lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry during Covid-19 to win concessions for climate-damaging energy schemes, gain access to bailout funds, and weaken environmental standards. This is undermining climate action, the EU Green Deal and green recovery.

Bailing out fossil fuels is giving a free rein to polluting coal, oil and gas companies, and is incompatible with climate action.

Civil society concerns on EU critical raw materials plan

28 September 2020

234 civil society organisations and academics from across Europe and the world are expressing deep concerns with the direction being taken by the European Commission in its new communications on Critical Raw Materials, in this open letter. Reacting to the Commission's plans published on Friday 4th September, the signatories urge the Commission to realign strategies on raw materials with the interests of the planet and communities.

No clean-up, no justice in the Niger Delta

18 June 2020

Over five decades, oil and gas extraction have caused large-scale, continued contamination of the water and soil in Ogoni communities.
The continued and systematic failure of oil companies and government to clean up have left hundreds of thousands of Ogoni people facing serious health risks, struggling to access safe drinking water, and unable to earn a living due to the contamination of waterways.

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