Sigh. Airline giant United was named “Eco-Aviation Airline of the Year” today by the industry trade publication Air Transport World. This comes at the same time that United is being…
Last week it was revealed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office created an “enemy list” to include in briefing books for newly appointed Cabinet members. Pundits were quick to point…
When I was first asked to help with the launch of the movie Greedy Lying Bastards, I really wasn’t too sure of the title. Would people be turned off by…
Five people are confirmed dead and 40 people remain missing in the small hamlet of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, where a train with 73 carloads full of Bakken shale oil derailed explosively,…
President Obama’s climate action announcement yesterday relies heavily on carbon capture and storage technology eventually paying off as a commercially viable option. But carbon capture and storage (or CCS) continues…
Today, billionaire clean energy philanthropist Tom Steyer held a press conference to debunk the myths that the Keystone XL pipeline will lead to major economic growth and national security. Keystone…
Google, the search giant with the famous motto: “Don’t be evil,” is boasting about its involvement in a 2012 coal industry lobbying effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)…
As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in…
The Guardian news outlet is running a series this week on the small Alaskan town of Newtok that is slowly being wiped off the map as the waters rise around…
Despite an international agreement to reduce emissions from carbon-intensive sources, oil and coal companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars a year into finding new fossil fuel deposits…
It is being reported today that Canada’s Minister of the Environment, Peter Kent, would not allow the public posting of a final report by the now-defunct National Roundtable on Energy…
DeSmogBlog has found that Environmental Resources Management, the consulting firm behind the Keystone XL Pipeline environmental impact assessment, has been at the center of controversial pipeline projects in the past.…
Greedy Lying Bastards is a new film hitting mainstream theaters nationwide in the U.S. this weekend. If you like DeSmogBlog, you’re going to love this film. Here’s the Rotten Tomatoes…
We are hearing word that the press conference to release the U.S.. State Department’s environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline proposal was originally scheduled for 2:00 pm est, today,…
Yesterday, Gary Doer, Canada’s Ambassador to the United States, made headlines when he stated that: “If you ask the question: Do you want your oil from (Venezuelan President) Hugo Chavez…
Have you heard of Donors Trust? Most DeSmogBlog readers have heard for years about how the likes of the billionaire Koch Brothers, and major energy companies like ExxonMobil, have pumped…
This weekend, thousands of people will be out front of Barack Obama’s White House to protest the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline — a 1,879 kilometer length of pipe…
Newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet on Friday with his Canadian counterpart, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. In any such bilateral meeting, it is paramount that…
A new video featuring four energy experts, outlines the issues surrounding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the Alberta tar sands and climate change. The video describes the Keystone XL tar…
A new report released by renowned Harvard political scientist, Theda Skocpol, provides the most clear and unbiased analysis so far on the failure of recent efforts to pass legislation to…
