Oil companies are dropping renewable goals — and more importantly, expanding fossil fuels

Grist
By Tik RootMar 7, 2025, 4:30 am134 pts
Last week, British Petroleum announced that it was slashing more than $5 billion in planned green energy investments. It was a marked departure from the early 2000s, when the oil giant branded itself as “beyond petroleum,” and even 2020, when the company targeted a 20-fold increase in its renewables…

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