by Ashley Smith | Apr 9, 2026 | Authoritarianism, Capitalism, ceasefire, China, Displacement, Donald Trump, economic crisis, Economy, Energy, Finance, Food Security, Fossil Fuels, Global Financial Crisis, Global South, India, Interview, Iran, iran war, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Russia, Strait of Hormuz, War, war in Iran
On February 28, the U.S. and Israel expanded their joint genocidal war on Gaza onto Iran as well as Lebanon. After weeks of assassinations and bombing, President Donald Trump agreed to a ceasefire on April 7. This war of aggression by the U.S. and Israel is part of a continued attempt to wipe out any and all opposition to their dominance over the Middle East and its strategic energy reserves.
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by Alex Brown | Mar 25, 2026 | Energy, Fossil Fuels, LNG, New York, News, North Carolina, renewable, Renewable Energy, Renewables, Trump Administration, wind, wind energy, wind farm, Wind Farms
The U.S. government will pay a French energy firm nearly $1 billion to cancel its plans to build a pair of wind farms off the East Coast, the Trump administration announced Monday in its latest move to stymie offshore wind. The French firm TotalEnergies will forfeit its leases for projects off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, with the United States paying $928 million to reimburse…
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by Mike Ludwig | Mar 24, 2026 | AI, aridification, Arizona, Big Oil, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Colorado River, data centers, Drought, Fires, Fossil Fuel Industry, Fossil Fuels, Heat Dome, Heat Wave, Heat Waves, News, Rainfall, southwest, US Southwest, Water
Tucson, Arizona — Deadly heat waves have become the summertime norm in Arizona and much of the Southwest in recent years. But this year, those heat waves are coming months before the height of summer. As an atmospheric “heat dome” planted itself over much of the U.S. West, temperatures outside Phoenix reached 101 degrees on the first day of spring, making Arizona the hottest place on Earth.
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by Kenny Bruno | Mar 21, 2026 | Donald Trump, elections, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Iran, iran war, Israel, Liquified Natural Gas, LNG, Oil, Op-Ed, Russia, Trump Administration, War, war in Iran
Operation Epic Fury makes perfect sense. To understand it, you simply have to ignore previous political and military norms. The simplest explanation is that the war fits Donald Trump’s two primary principles: enrichment and domination. The consensus on the left is that the U.S. war on Iran is impulsive, senseless, incomprehensible, illogical, not strategic, and not in the U.S. national interest.
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by Sharon Zhang | Mar 19, 2026 | Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, Iran, Israel, News, Oil and Gas Industry, Qatar, UAE
Arab countries are fuming after the U.S. and Israel escalated their war on Iran with an attack on a key natural gas field this week, an attack that Arab states reportedly sought to prevent in order to head off further chaos in the global energy industry. The Wall Street Journal reports that Arab countries were “furious” about Israel’s attack on the South Pars natural gas field on Wednesday.
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by Brett Wilkins | Mar 18, 2026 | Big Oil, Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, gas prices, Iran, iran war, News, Oil, war in Iran, windfall tax
With Big Oil poised to profit from a price spike driven by the US-Israeli war on Iran, congressional Democrats on Wednesday revived an excise tax that proponents say would put money back in the pockets of struggling American workers. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act “to curb profiteering by oil companies and provide…
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