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  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    Exxon Mobil Corp
    Exxon and Chevron shareholders cut support for climate resolutions

    Annual meeting votes highlight differences between investors at US and European oil companies

  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    Opinion: Time is up for Big Oil’s business model Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, reports of the death of Canada’s oil sands are greatly exaggerated

  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    Live from ‘clean energy Coachella’ Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, just how big are the shale patch’s private drillers?

  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    The energy transition’s ‘shortage of returns’ Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter: the US cannot undo supply chain dependence on China overnight

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    What comes after peak coal? Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, a look at America’s obsession with big cars

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    The energy mega-deal stuck in the pipeline Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, are the new solar sector subsidies worth the cost?

  • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    BP chief: Fossil fuels have done ‘enormous good’ Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, is the gag about nuclear fusion true?

  • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    The clean energy subsidy race is on Premium content

    Plus, asset managers aren’t putting their money where their climate pledges are, report shows

  • Monday, 8 May, 2023
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    What is really driving ExxonMobil’s clean energy commitments?

    The oil major says it is investing in low-carbon technologies. Pressure from shareholders has played a part — but so have tax incentives

  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    Oliver Stone’s plan to revive nuclear power Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, the hottest themes in the shale patch

  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    Energy Source
    America’s cleantech lender-in-chief has a ‘ridiculously good rate of return’ Premium content

    But Big Oil has failed to come to the table

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Exxon Mobil Corp
    Exxon and Chevron profits slide from record highs

    US oil majors facing weaker energy markets as global economy slows

  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    Energy Source
    The energy transition’s big problem Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, Canada catches up with the US on green subsidies

  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    Energy Source
    Big Oil and Big Green make strange bedfellows Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, Biden threatens the second veto of his presidency over solar tariffs

  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
    Energy Source
    The new energy crisis in the pipeline Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, corporate earnings of oil service providers point to a slowdown in the shale patch

  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
    Energy Source
    Inside the flood of clean tech investment in America Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, enforcement of the Russian oil price cap heats up

  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
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    Open AI’s ‘red team’

    BP commits to more fossil fuels as $9bn offshore platform in Gulf of Mexico comes online

  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    Exxon Mobil Corp
    Exxon chief’s pay jumps 52% after oil boom

    Darren Woods joins the list of executives benefiting from a surge in industry profits since start of war in Ukraine

  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    BP PLC
    BP commits to Gulf of Mexico as $9bn platform comes online

    Group’s biggest project in region since Deepwater Horizon follows strategic shift on fossil fuels

  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    Energy Source
    Biden hasn’t changed on fossil fuels, says ConocoPhillips boss Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, renewables are getting pricier — but so is everything else

  • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
    Energy Source
    Americans are not rushing to buy EVs Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter: how the energy transition has become so messy

  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    Energy Source
    Opec puts the power of the Russian price cap to the test Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, the US’s new role as an energy exporting superpower

  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
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    Exxon says low-carbon business could one day eclipse oil and gas

    Texas oil major says government incentives are critical to profiting from energy transition

  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Energy Source
    Opec takes the reins Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, a look at what’s slowing the energy transition

  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Renewable energy
    Texas leaders threaten wind and solar boom with legislative push

    Bills that hobble renewables would slow decarbonisation in power-hungry state

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