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The Daily Climate, March 31,2021
Articles include: Michigan flooding & sea walls; forest destruction accelerated in 2020; rivers as a climate change solution; Kerry to India and UAE; Climate change, Canada, and hurricanes (report in the ScienceBrief Review website); thaw-driven landslides; wind energy; Scottish wind farm success; UAE, automakers and EV’s; keeping the planet […]
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Major pipelines take hit, but oil networks keep growing
Politico discusses how major pipelines have taken a hit, but oil networks keep growing. Despite recent high-profile courtroom losses, the oil and gas industry has succeeded in putting tens of thousands of miles of new steel in the ground.
“One thing for sure is there is a lot going on in […]
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Emails Reveal U.S. Justice Dept. Working Closely with Oil Industry to Oppose Climate Lawsuits
This Inside Climate News article discusses emails that reveal how the U.S. Justice Department is working closely with the O&G industry to oppose climate lawsuits. DOJ attorneys describe working with industry lawyers as a ‘team,’ raising questions about whether government was representing the American people.
In early 2018, a few […]
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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
This blog post discusses the following:
Why Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate
Peak Shale: Is the US Fracking Industry Already in Decline?
Backed by Big Oil, Opponents of Washington’s Proposed Carbon Fee Claim Latino Businesses Support Them—Except […]
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Trump “draining the swamp”? No – he dove right in
The Daily Climate’s Weekend Reader, Sunday March 11 (email) contains the following analysis:
What is the Trump Administration’s role on keeping lobbyists out of government? “Apparently, President Trump’s operative plan for draining the Washington swamp is to hire former lobbyists to do cannonballs into it. The Associated Press reports that of […]
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