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Another Setback for Plans for a New Pipeline in NY’s Harbor
This article discusses how plans for a pipeline in NY’s Harbor has had another setback.
Three weeks after New York State rejected a bid to build a natural gas pipeline through its waters, the state of New Jersey did the same on Wednesday.
Like their counterparts in Albany, […]
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Mobil sought to fight environmental regulation, documents show
This The Guardian article discusses documents that show how Mobil sought to fight environmental regulation. Oil giant looked to make tax-exempt donations to universities and civic groups in the early 1990s to promote the company’s interests.
Oil giant Mobil sought to make tax-exempt donations to leading universities, […]
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The White House tried to stop climate science testimony, documents show.
This NY Times article discusses how the White House tried to stop climate science testimony, documents show.
The White House tried to stop a State Department senior intelligence analyst from discussing climate science in congressional testimony this week, internal emails and documents show.
The State Department’s Bureau of […]
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Ohio’s Nuclear Bailout Plan Balloons to Embrace Coal (while Killing Renewable Energy Rules)
This Inside Climate News article discusses Ohio’s Nuclear Bailout Plan Balloons to Embrace Coal (while Killing Renewable Energy Rules). It’s a trifecta the Trump administration has pushed for nationally, with businesses and homeowners footing the bill for uneconomical power plants.
While other states are embracing renewable energy, Ohio is heading in […]
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Report: Addressing the Urgency of More Stringent Climate Change Policy
This report discusses the urgency of more stringent climate change policy. This paper highlights scientific findings and features of the climate system that, together, suggest that the need for stronger policy action to mitigate emissions of carbon dioxide is urgent. It identifies four ways that economists can address this […]
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DeSmog Blog
This week’s edition includes a discussion of:
After DeSmog’s Revelations, Enbridge’s Weymouth Gas Facility Air Permit in Jeopardy
First, Climate Change, Now the Global Extinction Crisis: Industry-Paid Hacks Deny Science to Congress
Secrecy Versus Sunshine: Efforts to Hide Government Records Never Stop
Op-Ed: Climate Change: ‘We’ve Created a Civilization Hell […]
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Pipeline opponents strike back against anti-protest laws
This article discusses how pipeline opponents strike back against anti-protest laws in Louisana and South Dakota, and soon, Texas. OPPONENTS OF OIL and gas pipelines in three states are fighting back against new anti-protest laws aimed at suppressing fossil fuel industry dissent. Two lawsuits in Louisiana and South Dakota, and a […]
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Quoting ‘The Lorax,’ Court Pulls Permit For Pipeline Crossing Appalachian Trail
This article discusses a recent court decision to pull the permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
A federal appeals court has thrown out a power company’s permit to build a natural gas pipeline across two national forests and the Appalachian Trail – and slammed the U.S. Forest Service for granting […]
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DeSmog Blog, week of 5/23/2019
This week’s blog includes discussions about transporting fracked gas via trucks instead of pipelines; new laws in Louisiana that criminalize pipeline protests; Trump, DOJ, and “clean coal”; shipping companies and GHGs; a report on plastics; Biden and his Dominion Energy connection; Warren Buffet and fracking; FER$C and its pipeline […]
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DeSmog Blog – May 16, 2019
This blog discusses multiple environmental issues, including the puzzling deaths of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico; Oregon’s refusing to allow a LNG terminal to be built over water quality concerns; carcinogens and other pollution at a Boston gas compressor station; attempts by the fossil fuel industry to eliminate the […]
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