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EPA Used Monsanto’s Research to Give Roundup a Pass
EPA Used Monsanto’s Research to Give Roundup a Pass THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY concluded in June that there was “no convincing evidence” that glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the U.S. and the world, is an endocrine disruptor. On the face of it, this was great news, given that some 300 million poundsof the chemical were used on […]
Oil and Gas Industry Publicly Supports Climate Action While Secretly Subverting Process, New Analysis Shows
Oil and Gas Industry Publicly Supports Climate Action While Secretly Subverting Process, New Analysis Shows A new report recently released by InfluenceMap shows a number of oil and gas companies publicly throwing their support behind climate initiatives are simultaneously obstructing those same efforts through lobbying activities. The report, Big Oil and the Obstruction of Climate Regulations, comes on the […]
Seeing the Forest
Seeing the Forest Seeing the Forest tells the story of the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon — how it made a successful transition from timber extraction to ecosystem restoration. Once the epicenter of conflict, the Siuslaw today is an exemplar of cooperation and collaboration. They harvest wood sustainably by thinning overly dense monoculture stands that are […]
Fukushima Gets A Lot Uglier
Fukushima Gets A Lot Uglier As time passes, a bona fide message emerges from within the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster scenario, and that message is that once a nuclear power plant loses it, the unraveling only gets worse and worse until it’s at its worst, and still, there’s no stopping it. Similar to […]
What does Climate Change Look Like?
What does Climate Change Look Like? “Our goal is not to amass information or satisfy curiosity, but rather to become painfully aware, to dare turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus to discover what each of us can do about it” –Pope Francis Several weeks ago, I […]
Exxon: We knew climate change was a real threat (but we didn’t want you to)
Exxon: We knew climate change was a real threat (but we didn’t want you to) One of the big complaints about climate change deniers is that they don’t fund any genuine primary scientific research into climate change. We are used to deniers extracting out-of-context passages from existing legitimate climate research and pretending those passages support […]
Risky Shale Oil-by-Rail Expands Despite Lack of Spill Response Preparedness
Risky Shale Oil-by-Rail Expands Despite Lack of Spill Response Preparedness The worst onshore oil spill in United States history was the Kalamazoo River tar sands pipeline spill in 2010 with estimates of one million gallons of oil spilled. In comparison, the oil-by-rail accident in Lac-Megantic, Quebec was 50% bigger. With the oil-by-rail industry proposing large expansions to West […]
What The Oil And Gas Industry Is Not Telling Investors
What The Oil And Gas Industry Is Not Telling Investors Oil prices crashed because of too much supply, but will rebound as production shrinks and demand rises. But what if long-term demand for oil ends up being sharply lower than what the oil industry believes? That is the subject of a new report from The Carbon Tracker […]
The Global Oil Supply: Implications for Biodiversity?
The Global Oil Supply: Implications for Biodiversity? The following is an overview of my recent lecture to the Linnean Society of London, which is named in honour of Carl Linneus, who among many other accolades has been described as “The father of modern taxonomy”, and is also considered as one of the founders of modern ecology. It is the world’s […]
Explosion rocks nuclear power plant in Belgium
Explosion rocks nuclear power plant in Belgium Nuclear power plant of Doel © wikipedia.org An explosion occurred overnight at a nuclear power plant in Doel, northern Belgium, local media reported, adding that the blast caused a fire. The exact damage from the incident remains unknown. The blast happened around 11pm local time on Saturday. The […]
Battle to Keep Florida Frack-Free Heats Up
Battle to Keep Florida Frack-Free Heats Up The battle to keep Florida frack-free is intensifying ahead of the 2016 state legislative session. Fracking became an issue last year after Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) revealed that the Dan A. Hughes Co. had fracked the Collier-Hogan well in Naples, despite regulators telling it not to until the agency had […]
Cheating, No Problem: Automakers Win Again in Europe
Cheating, No Problem: Automakers Win Again in Europe They run the show. Brussels, Europe: A more wretched hive of corporate lobbyists, law firms, and money-grubbing apparatchiks you will struggle to find. The latest example of lobbying influence is one of the most egregious yet, since it will affect the quality (or lack thereof) of the […]
Extinction, the New Environmentalism and the Cancer in the Wilderness
Extinction, the New Environmentalism and the Cancer in the Wilderness The word is in from the wildlife biologists. Say goodbye in North America to the gray wolf, the cougar, the grizzly bear. They are destined for extinction sometime in the next 40 years. Say goodbye to the Red wolf and the Mexican wolf and the […]
Imagine If Exxon Had Told the Truth on Climate Change
Imagine If Exxon Had Told the Truth on Climate Change Like all proper scandals, the #Exxonknew revelations have begun to spin off new dramas and lines of inquiry. Presidential candidates have begun to call for Department of Justice investigations, and company spokesmen have begun to dig themselves deeper into the inevitable holes as they try to excuse the inexcusable. […]
