Wall Street Warns About Cost Of Doing Nothing On Climate Change
As President Obama heads to the Arctic to discuss climate change, just mere weeks after approving Shell Oil’s bid to drill for oil in the treacherous Chukchi Sea, a very…
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Obama Administration Sued Over Gulf Of Mexico Fracking
At a time when the rest of the world (for a host of reasons) is shying away from the hydraulic fracturing “boom,” the United States appears to be hell-bent on…
New Senate Majority Puts Keystone XL At The Top Of To-Do List
The Republican Party now controls the legislative branch of the U.S. government, but even before they were sworn in, they had made their priorities for the country clear. They want…
Contrary To BP PR, Most Oil Spill Claims Are Legit
For more than a year, oil giant BP has waged a massive public relations battle to convince Americans that the company has been bamboozled by the oil spill claims process…
Republicans in Congress Seek to Crush the Environmental Protection Agency
A week after their electoral victories in the 2014 midterms, Senate Republicans have already set their sights on one of their all-time favorite targets: the Environmental Protection Agency. Republican Senator…
BP’s Bathtub Ring Of Gulf Oil Uncovered
Less than a week after Politico allowed BP communications vice president Geoff Morrell the space to tell Americans that there are no lingering effects from the BP oil spill in…
New Short Film Exposes The Human Cost Of Coal Ash Dumping
The threats posed by coal ash are well known today, but not too long ago, the dangers of coal ash disposal were a dirty energy secret. For a large section…
Politico Allows BP Exec To Mislead Public About Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Impacts
Geoff Morrell, the senior vice president of communications at BP, wants the whole country to know that the company’s negligence that led to the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser has not…
Impoverished Nations To Suffer More As Climate Change Worsens
For most Western societies, climate change has largely been an “out of sight, out of mind” issue. Even the disasters that we have seen in America – more extreme droughts,…
Science Is Clear: Reducing Carbon Emissions Will Save Lives
While governments all over the globe continue to squabble about how to address greenhouse gas pollution – or, in some instances, whether or not to even address the issue –…
West Virginia Officials Worried Freedom Industries Skimping On Chemical Spill Cleanup
In early January of this year, a chemical storage facility run by Freedom Industries ruptured and leaked thousands of gallons of chemicals into West Virginia’s Elk River. The leak occurred…
Senate Republicans Go All In On Keystone XL
Six years have passed since TransCanada originally sought a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, and Republicans in Washington have not given up fighting for the project. In spite of…
Republican Senators Push Manhattan Institute’s Dirty Energy Propaganda Paper
Two Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will be releasing a white paper later this week that will allegedly make the case that “regulations” and legislation…
Pennsylvania Prisoners Poisoned By Coal Ash
Life in a prison is probably not the safest environment for a person. But for prisoners in Pennsylvania, life just got a lot more dangerous. According to a new report,…
Swapping Farmland For Coal Trains: Union Pacific’s Texas Land Grab
Railroad giant Union Pacific has some big plans for a tiny Texas community. According to locals in the Brazos River Valley, the railroad company is hoping to turn some of…
Florida Governor Rick Scott Meets With Climate Scientists, Learns Nothing
Republican Florida governor Rick Scott has always had a huge problem when it comes to the environment. To begin with, he has repeatedly made it clear that he does not…
BP Wins Big In Offshore Oil Drilling Lease Auction
For all of his administration’s tough talk on protecting our environment, President Obama doesn’t seem to have any problem increasing the nation’s dependence on dirty energy. Earlier this year, the…
NRDC Action Fund Working To Hold Climate Change Deniers Accountable
Before members of Congress departed Washington, D.C. for their month-long August recess, senators attempted one final vote on a resolution that did nothing more than state that the Senate accepts…
Coal Company, West Virginia Attorney General Blame Lifesaving EPA Rules For Layoffs
Alpha Natural Resources, one of the leaders in the practice of mountain removal mining, has made it clear that they aren’t happy with the new EPA rules that will require…
Has The Gulf Of Mexico Hit Peak Oil?
There are enough articles on the “myth of peak oil” floating around the Internet to fill a book; and there are enough books on the subject to fill a small…