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New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation has chosen Robert Jacobi, a University at Buffalo geologist with ties to the natural gas industry, to study the link between fracking and earthquakes, a DEC spokeswoman told Bloomberg‘s Jim Esftathiou, Jr. Jacobi, who is a senior advisor to gas driller EQT Production and

By David Suzuki The Arctic may seem like a distant place, just as the most extreme consequences of our wasteful use of fossil fuels may appear to be in some distant future. Both are closer than most of us realize.   The Arctic is a focal point for some of

This is a guest post by James Lawrence Powell, originally published on GoFossilFree.org A generation ago, students urged colleges to sell their stock in companies doing business in Apartheid South Africa. At least 155 colleges and universities, as well as 26 state governments, 22 countries, and 90 cities, partially or

by JODI STARK, one of the independent artists who created Hope the Whale, and an environmental public engagement specialist. The most striking part of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway community hearings in Vancouver is that they’re not open to the community at all.  Only a limited number of people get to present their position

by Nikki Skuce, Senior Energy Campaigner, ForestEthics Advocacy Every time I read the comments section related to a story on First Nations activism, I am saddened by the depth and popularity of racism in Canada. This has been evident from the First Nations activism against Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline and

This is a guest post by Michael Harris, originally published on iPolitics.ca Keep the Indians off the front-page. That, in a phrase, is the Harper approach to aboriginal issues in Canada. With the exception of former prime minister Paul Martin, that has pretty much been the playbook for all federal

Originally published at Climate Progress. Re-printed with permission.  by Kiley Kroh and Michael Conathan This week’s grounding of Shell’s enormous Kulluk drilling rig near Kodiak Island, Alaska has not inspired confidence in its preparedness to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. The rig was being towed from Dutch Harbor, Alaska to Seattle when

By Ellen Cantarow – Originally published at EcoWatch.org Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its singularity—its vastness, its difference from other industries and its threat to the planet? When I interviewed Dr. Anthony Ingraffea—Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow

By David Suzuki   In 1988, hundreds of scientists and policy-makers met in Toronto for a major international conference on climate change. They were sufficiently alarmed by the accumulated evidence for human-caused global warming that they issued a release stating,“Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate

This a guest post by Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, of the University of Western Australia. THE guy next to you in the pub turns around and says, “Popcorn doesn’t exist”… and he adds, “but it grows naturally on trees! And it’s good for you!” Popcorn doesn’t exist but grows naturally on

Written by David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Communications Manager Ian Hanington. Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food. That could change as oil,

This is a guest post by Connor Gibson, originally published at Polluterwatch.
At a well-attended energy forum hosted by Politico on Thursday, I shed some light on the role of coal lobbyist Jeffrey Holmstead in blocking pollution reductions for his coa…

This is a guest post by James Lawrence Powell.*
Polls show that many members of the public believe that scientists substantially disagree about human-caused global warming. The gold standard of science is the peer-reviewed literature. If there is disa…

This is a guest post by Janet MacGillivray, Tar Sands Blockade Legal Coordinator And Strategic Liaison Less than one week before the U.S. election, Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein has been arrested for literally walking the walk in her stance against dirty oil and corporate politicking. Dr. Stein

By David Suzuki   Why, when so many people oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, would government and industry resort to such extreme measures to push it through?   The problems with the plan to run pipelines from the Alberta tar sands across northern B.C. to load unrefined, diluted

This is a guest post by Connor Gibson, originally published at Greenpeace Blogs. The octopus has a remarkable ability–it can blend seamlessly with its surroundings, changing its appearance to mimic plants, rocks or even other animals. Similarly deceptive is an upcoming junk study from a Koch-funded think tank that has

This is a guest post by Janet MacGillivray, Legal Coordinator and Campaign Strategic Advisor with Tar Sands Blockade. Today, former TransCanada engineer Evan Vokes blew the whistle on his company’s incompetent pipeline inspectors and non-compliance with Canada’s welding regulations. In an exclusive television interview with CBC News, Vokes detailed his

This is a guest post by Nikki Skuce, and originally appeared in the Edmonton Journal. In Edmonton this week, experts and lawyers have gathered again at the Joint Review Panel hearings on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline and tanker project. They’ll challenge and defend percentages, growth, probabilities. They’ll speak about projections

This is a guest post by Prof. Scott Mandia, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences and Assistant Chair of the Physical Sciences Department at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island, New York, USA. In July, 2012, The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) allowed one if its bloggers, Peter Wood, to

Cross-posted from Media Matters with permission, view original here. A Media Matters analysis reveals that The Wall Street Journal‘s editorials on acid rain mirrored misleading talking points featured in coal industry advertisements running elsewhere in the paper in the 1980s. The Journal also heavily promoted the claims of one particular