Big Oil finds it hard to ignore pollution amid investor, court pressure

Big Oil finds it hard to ignore pollution amid investor, court pressure

3 years ago
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/big-oil-under-fire-from-investors-and-courts-for-carbon-pollution/

Yesterday was a bad day to be an oil company.

First, a court in the Netherlands ruled that Royal Dutch Shell needs to slash its emissions more than it had planned in order to meet Paris Agreement targets. The court ordered the oil supermajor to cut carbon pollution by 45 percent by the end of the decade.