A train derailment last week has prompted a California state legislator to call for a moratorium on crude-by-rail shipments through the state’s “most treacherous” passes. Twelve cars derailed on a…
George Shultz, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989, is not only willing to buck the Republican Party’s orthodoxy on global warming by acknowledging…
It has been 35 years since the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) last performed an environmental review of its coal leasing program. Two environmental groups are suing the BLM to…
Recent revelations that the Walton Family, majority owners of Walmart, are funding attacks against the rooftop solar industry called into question the big-box retailer’s very public “100% renewable energy” commitment.…
While the oil and gas industry likes to claim that fracking is not an especially water intensive process, a new report has found that there are more than 250 wells…
Many states are already on track to meet or beat the renewable energy targets laid out for them by the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, according to a new report from…
Despite the high-profile bankruptcy of solar panel maker Solyndra, the Department of Energy’s renewable energy loan program is officially in the black as of September and now expects to earn…
Two new reports show that California regulators are failing to enforce basic measures to protect the public—particularly in the most vulnerable communities—from the impacts of oil and gas development. The…
Oil giant Shell was warned by its own staff that the Trans Niger Pipeline had a “risk and likelihood of rupture” years before two spills in 2008 spewed as much…
A recent trend has seen utilities deciding that since they haven’t been able to beat back the rise of rooftop solar companies, they might as well join them (or at…
Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has been indicted on conspiracy and fraud charges for his role in the 2010 explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia that…
Despite the fact that they’ve been using the “climate action is useless because China won’t act” canard as one of their favorite arguments for years now, Republicans’ outraged response to…
Despite what you may have heard about the death of the coal industry, Peabody Energy is ramping up mining activities and going on the offensive, pushing “clean coal” on the…
