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🦠 Terra Oleo’s oil-producing microbes could replace destructive palm oil plantations
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/terra-oleos-tiny-oil-producing-microbes-might-replace-sprawling-palm-oil-plantations/

Exclusive: Terra Oleo’s oil-producing microbes could replace destructive palm oil plantations | TechCrunch
Terra Oleo had operated in stealth for years, developing yeast strains capable of producing high-value oils that don't need refining. It has raised $3.1 million.

The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades
The proposed lease sales in the Pacific Ocean would primarily be off Santa Barbara County, Calif.,
where a small amount of drilling is already occurring, according to two of the people familiar with the Interior Department’s draft plan

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

🛢️ Whistleblower Reveals Colombia’s Oil Spill Coverups
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Whistleblower-Reveals-Colombias-Oil-Spill-Coverups.html

Whistleblower Reveals Colombia's Oil Spill Coverups
Colombia's oil industry faces growing outrage over decades of environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon, as whistleblowers and indigenous communities demand accountability.

Tried a new mechanic as I was looking at a car they were selling in their lot. They botched the oil change by not tightening the oil filter properly. At least I noticed it before the leak was too bad, but damn.

"Oil Field Restoration and Grassroots Action Transforms Former Oil Site"
#Environment #Restoration
https://ha…

Oil Field Restoration and Grassroots Action Transforms Former Oil Site | Happy Eco News
Oil field restoration by Friends of Coyote Hills transforms former Chevron land into preserved habitat through two decades of grassroots organizing and community advocacy in Orange County.

AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/ai-data-centers-desperate-for-electricity-are-building-their-own-power-plants-291f5c81?st=rJGSQZ
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p164#a251016p164

growoil

Ukrainian drones strike major Russian oil refinery in Leningrad Oblast, key unit halts production, Reuters reports
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drones-strike-major-russian-oil-refinery-in-leningrad-oblast-governor-says/

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/big-oil-isnt-part-of-the-clean-energy-push-despite-its-claims-study-shows/

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

AI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet soaring electricity demand amid permitting and supply challenges (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Are you selling NYLON OIL WELLS?? If so, we can use TWO DOZEN!!

And BTW, the decline rate issue was at the very heart of the concerns about “peak oil.” We were doing the math on that 20 years ago and projecting what would happen when shale got to be a larger share of production. Now the shale mask is coming off, after hiding the underlying decline rates of conventional fields for ~15 years.
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This tea is *intense*. Cinnamon smell I can notice from several feet away from the box after opening it, and the tea bag is visibly oily looking from all the orange oil.
But very good. 10/10 would buy again. Probably doesn't even need the dash of sugar I added.

lmao

If the AI was as good as they pretend it is, we wouldn’t need MCP.
It would use the existing human UI.
And if it could be trusted, it wouldn’t output Python—it would generate highly optimized binaries.
…or something closer to that, anyway.
There are some good bits, but also a *lot* of snake oil sales going on here.

Norway Labour now dependent on Left-Green bloc.
Norway’s Election Opens Door to More Restrictive Oil and Gas Policies - Oil Change International
https://oilchange.org/news/norways-election-opens-door-to-more-restrictive-oil-and-gas-polici…

Norway’s Election Opens Door to More Restrictive Oil and Gas Policies - Oil Change International
Oslo, Norway – The Norwegian election is a turning point for climate and energy policy. With a Labour-led government strengthened by the Green Party (MDG) crossing the parliamentary threshold of 4%

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
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KIRISHI BIGGEST OIL REFINERY & PERM TOP METHANOL PLANT ON FIRE Vlog 1167: War in Ukraine
Last night Ukrainian #drones hit #Russia

Russia is importing gas and selling more crude than ever. What kind of gas station only imports gas?
Better question, why does Europe continue to support the Russian warcrimes and genocide by purchasing Russian oil and LPG?
Spoiler: some rich bastards decided it was better to make money than to be a decent human being, and we all get fucked as a result.
Georgio is a reported in Ukraine who reports from the trenches of democracy - where US media is not allowed to venture or …

Ukraine Targets the Core of Russia’s Terror Regime
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

How much does it cost to squint at the sun or feel the breeze on your cheek?
**World Must Spend $540 Billion a Year Looking for Oil and Gas, IEA Says** | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/world-must-spend-540-billion-a-year-looking-for-oil-and-gas-iea-says

#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

Multi-robot Multi-source Localization in Complex Flows with Physics-Preserving Environment Models
Benjamin Shaffer, Victoria Edwards, Brooks Kinch, Nathaniel Trask, M. Ani Hsieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14228

Multi-robot Multi-source Localization in Complex Flows with Physics-Preserving Environment Models
Source localization in a complex flow poses a significant challenge for multi-robot teams tasked with localizing the source of chemical leaks or tracking the dispersion of an oil spill. The flow dynamics can be time-varying and chaotic, resulting in sporadic and intermittent sensor readings, and complex environmental geometries further complicate a team's ability to model and predict the dispersion. To accurately account for the physical processes that drive the dispersion dynamics, robots must…

Trump has said he is ready to impose sanctions on Moscow,
-- but on the condition that all Nato allies agree to completely halt purchases of Russian oil and other implement their own sanctions.
He also suggested members of the transatlantic alliance consider imposing tariffs of 50% to 100% on China for its purchases of Russian petroleum as a way to help end the war.
Turkey, a Nato member, is the third largest buyer of Russia’s oil products, after China and India, according …

"Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

Trump says Modi has agreed to stop buying Russian oil (Danielle Kaye/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8gdl54n1go
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p65#a251016p65

Love this art.
#art

Nearly 47 million Americans at high risk of potential health hazards from fossil fuel infrastructure, study finds https://phys.org/news/2025-11-million-americans-high-potential-health.html

Nearly 47 million Americans at high risk of potential health hazards from fossil fuel infrastructure, study finds
Fossil fuels release pollutants into the air when extracted and burned, but there's more to their production than massive oil rigs diving deep into Earth and smoky power plants. Those processes are examples of only the first and last—and generally most visible—moments in a fossil fuel's five-stage journey.

An Open Benchmark Dataset for GeoAI Foundation Models for Oil Palm Mapping in Indonesia
M. Warizmi Wafiq, Peter Cutter, Ate Poortinga, Daniel Marc G. dela Torre, Karis Tenneson, Vanna Teck, Enikoe Bihari, Chanarun Saisaward, Weraphong Suaruang, Andrea McMahon, Andi Vika Faradiba Muin, Karno B. Batiran, Chairil A, Nurul Qomar, Arya Arismaya Metananda, David Ganz, David Saah

An Open Benchmark Dataset for GeoAI Foundation Models for Oil Palm Mapping in Indonesia
Oil palm cultivation remains one of the leading causes of deforestation in Indonesia. To better track and address this challenge, detailed and reliable mapping is needed to support sustainability efforts and emerging regulatory frameworks. We present an open-access geospatial dataset of oil palm plantations and related land cover types in Indonesia, produced through expert labeling of high-resolution satellite imagery from 2020 to 2024. The dataset provides polygon-based, wall-to-wall annotatio…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
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⁠⁠RUSSIA’S #ECONOMY COLLAPSED: OIL MONEY GONE Vlog 1226: War in #Ukraine
Collapse for the Russian government as

Evolution of surfactant-free 'pristine' emulsions
Andrei Dukhin, Renliang Xu, Darrell Velegol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13529 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Evolution of surfactant-free 'pristine' emulsions
The term pristine interface was introduced by Beattie and Djerdjev 20 years ago for emulsions that consist of only water and oil with no surfactant. They are different from Pickering emulsions, which are also surfactant-free but stabilized with colloidal particles. In contrast to previous studies, we monitor the kinetics of the initial stages of emulsion formation. We conducted such tests in an open setup when samples are open to air and CO2 content in the water varies, and in closed setup when…

Kazakh oil giant denies cyberattack, says incident was 'planned' phishing drill https://therecord.media/kazakstan-oil-company-kazmunaygas-phishing-simulation-not-cyberattack

Big Oil should help foot the bill for lost school time, students say
https://hechingerreport.org/students-want-to-send-bill-for-lost-school-time-to-big-oil/

Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/trump-china-soybean-cooking-oil.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p116#a251014p116

⓿ Study outlines steps for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045
#california

Study outlines steps for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045
A 2022 California law mandates net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and negative emissions every year thereafter. The state can achieve this but will have to act quickly and thoroughly, and success will require new technologies for sectors difficult to decarbonize, a new Stanford University study finds. The state will need to decarbonize not only cars and electricity but also trucks, trains, planes, agriculture, and factories, while slashing pollution from its oil refineries.

Trump Threatens China Cooking Oil Trade as Retaliation for Soybean Boycott | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-threatens-china-cooking-oil-trade-as-retaliation-for-soybean-boycott

"Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time"
#FossilFuels #Heatwave #Climate

The news appeared over the past weekend in a business trade online news publication called Hunterbrook.
A disgruntled Sable Oil investor had leaked a tape recording of a Zoom meeting held last week by company CEO Jim Flores with a group of investors.
Santa Barbara County Supervisor Steve Lavagnino said what he read qualified as some of the worst stuff he’d ever read.
In the tape, Flores can be heard outlining why the company will need to spend $200 million to extend its d…

Santa Barbara County Votes Against Combative Oil Company
A pro-oil supervisor says Sable has gone too far.

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations #health

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations
A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac health and other internal functions in offspring and subsequent generations.

"Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells"
#US #USA #America

Texas Says It’s Strict on Oil Field Emissions. New Data Shows It’s Not.
The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

The Trump administration said Thursday it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting from future oil and gas leasing vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other wildlife.
The U.S. Interior Department said the final rule would be published next week but announced it is repealing rules put in place last year.
Those rules restricted future leasing and industrial development in areas within the National …

Trump administration repealing rules to protect parts of Alaska petroleum reserve
The Trump administration says it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other wildlife. The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday said the final rule would be published next week. But it announced it is repealing rules put in place last year. The rules restricted future leasing and industrial development in areas within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that were designat…

Methane leaks at California oil facilities are also spewing toxic chemicals #California

Methane leaks at California oil facilities are also spewing toxic chemicals
Large methane leaks at oil and gas facilities across the United States not only unleash massive plumes of the potent greenhouse gas, but also carry a toxic mix of air pollutants that jeopardize the health of communities nearby, according to new research.

"AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%
Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage. Traditional numerical models, such as MEDSLIK-II, simulate the movement and transformation of oil particles in seawater, but their accuracy has been limited by dependence on expert judgment for tuning critical physical parameters. This manual calibration process, while informed by experience, is not always…