Royal Dutch Shell

Companies operating in rich, successful capitalist economies including Britain, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and especially the U.S. must prepare for an onslaught of activist-driven climate litigation, a report released Friday warns.

City attorneys in San Francisco and Oakland, California, sued five oil companies in two coordinated lawsuits on Tuesday, arguing that the courts should hold these companies responsible for climate change, and force them to financially compensate the cities for harm the plaintiffs claim those companies are causing to the planet’s environment.

NEW YORK — Congressional and U.S. court moves currently put the Trump administration at the center of a debate about the Boeing firm’s multibillion dollar deals to sell airplanes to two Iranian companies partially owned by the Iranian government.

TEL AVIV – Royal Dutch Shell Plc is considering buying natural gas from Israel and Cyprus in a measure that could turn the Mediterranean region into a major gas-producing hub, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

Iran is adopting Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal strategy by scrambling to sign Western energy deals as bargaining chips before confronting the President-elect, who once called the Iran nuclear deal “one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history.”

Royal Dutch Shell confirmed Monday that it had signed an initial deal with Iran’s National Petrochemical Company, paving the way for its return to the Islamic republic.

Royal Dutch Shell has announced it will layoff 2,800 more workers.