The Latest Breaking News from Shell

WASHINGTON — As consumers fume over skyrocketing prices for gasoline and other commodities, congressional Democrats on Wednesday called executives from big oil companies on the carpet to explain why they appear to be making unseemly fat profits in the face of an international crisis.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid Wednesday, extending losses from Tuesday's stock market sell-off, as the 10-year Treasury yield surged.

One CEO called to testify about high gas prices at a hearing Wednesday gave $469,000 since 1993, public records show.

In April 2021, I was one of six Extinction Rebellion protesters acquitted of criminal damage to Shell’s London HQ. Two years earlier, we poured fake oil onto the steps and walls of the oil major’s building in Waterloo, broke windows and painted messages that said: “Shell Knew”, “Shell Lies” and…