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The GOP and Big Oil can’t escape blame for climate change
This article discusses how the Republican Party and big oil are to blame for global warming. The New York Times magazine blames ‘human nature,’ but fingers have already been pointed at the true culprits.
Last week’s issue of the New York Times magazine was […]
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Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan Is Roiling Coastal Elections
This article discusses the Trump administration’s proposal to allow offshore oil and gas drilling. That has met significant opposition from Republican candidates up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
Carteret County sits in a region of North Carolina known as the Crystal Coast. It’s celebrated for its charming lighthouses, sun-bleached […]
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Study: America spends over $20bn per year on fossil fuel subsidies. Abolish them
This article discusses subsidies given to the fossil fuel industry – it’s staggering!
Imagine that instead of taxing cigarettes, America subsidized the tobacco industry in order to make each pack of smokes cheaper.
A report from Oil Change International (OCI) investigated American energy industry subsidies and found that […]
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A dozen fires and explosions at Colorado oil and gas facilities in 8 months since fatal blast in Firestone
This article discusses how new pipeline rules are being proposed in Colorado, but they don’t deal with fatalities from oil and gas industry fires and explosions.
At least a dozen explosions and fires have occurred along Colorado oil and gas industry pipelines in the eight months since two men […]
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Oil Industry Plans to Keep Workers Safe—by Firing Them and Having Robots Do Their Jobs
This article discusses how the fossil fuel industry plans to ensure worker safety – by replacing workers with robots.
The oil and gas industry is finally acknowledging how dangerous employment can be for its workers after years of touting the sector as a beacon of worker safety. This sudden honesty about […]
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The Big Apple Loses to Big Oil as Judge Dismisses Climate Liability Suit
This article discusses the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by NY State against the fossil fuel industry. It is the second such dismissal in favor of the fossil fuel industry.
A federal judge ruled on Thursday in favor of a motion by five big oil companies to dismiss a […]
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Exxon Leaving ALEC
This article discusses Exxon’s decision to leave ALEC. It is an Important But Insufficient Step in Addressing Company’s History of Climate Science Denial, Campaigners Say.
ExxonMobil has announced it will leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate lobby group known for its attempts to […]
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Study: Fossil Fuel Industry Outspent Environmentalists and Renewables by 10:1 on Climate Lobbying
This article discusses how the Fossil Fuel Industry Outspent Environmentalists and Renewables by 10:1 on Climate Lobbying.
Industry sectors based on fossil fuels significantly outspent environmental groups and renewable energy companies on climate change lobbying, new research has found.
In a study published today in the journal Climatic Change, Drexel University sociologist Robert […]
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Clean energy is catching up to natural gas
This article discusses how clean energy is catching up to natural gas. The natural gas “bridge” to sustainability may be shorter than expected.
For around 10 years, the conventional wisdom in the energy sector has been that natural gas is ascendant. Coal is dirty, and it’s getting expensive, […]
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Book: The Beginning of the End of the World – one family’s fracking experience
This article discusses a book about a “Reckless” Fracking Company, Poisoned Springs, and a Family Forced to Buy Water at Walmart.
Driving West along the Pennsylvania Turnpike from Harrisburg to rural Washington County, sign after sign pitted energy companies against environmentalists. An evil-looking clown leered down at passing […]
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