In a time when malware attacks against the oil and gas industry are on the rise, two similar spear-phishing campaigns aimed at the oil and gas industry have been launched within the past month. 

As the United States appears to be on the precipice of a staggering recession thanks to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, a group of Illinois-based activists is looking out for the country’s disenfranchised. A movement spearheaded by Reverend Jesse Jackson aims to bring a new natural gas pipeline to the people of Pembroke Township. 

It is a grim time in the United States and the world abroad. Economies are struggling. Some estimates indicate that unemployment numbers in the US have reached the same level as the Great Depression. Every industry is currently experiencing a downturn because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but few sectors have been hit as hard as oil and gas. 

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency invoke the wrath of anti-energy advocates across the United States when they chose to relax a handful of regulations regarding oil and gas emissions.