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Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges
Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges On October 23, 84 Congressional representatives made a splash when they published a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking if those engaged in activism disrupting or damaging pipeline operations should face criminal prosecution as an act of terrorism under the USA PATRIOT ACT. Spearheaded […]
Fossil Fuel Dollars Flow into Local Elections Threatening Development in the West
Fossil Fuel Dollars Flow into Local Elections Threatening Development in the West This election season, cities in Colorado and Washington are proving to be battlegrounds for community groups pushing to locally restrict oil, gas, and coal development. And in both places, the fossil fuel industry has been pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into making […]
Ohio Court Overturns Law Preventing Cities From Voting on Anti-Fracking Measures
Ohio Court Overturns Law Preventing Cities From Voting on Anti-Fracking Measures In a slight break with previous state policies that have encouraged fracking activity and new pipelines, the Ohio Supreme Court recently struck down a controversial provision restricting citizen efforts to vote locally on these and other issues through the ballot initiative process. Getting Out (of) […]
Alberta Approves Suncor Tailings Plan Despite Reliance on ‘Unproven Technology’
Alberta Approves Suncor Tailings Plan Despite Reliance on ‘Unproven Technology’ The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has approved a tailings management plan from oilsands giant Suncor, despite the plan relying on “newly patented, unproven technology” that will require decades of monitoring. Wednesday’s decision came only six months after the AER rejected Suncor’s proposed plan for the same […]
Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas
Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas While victims in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico are still reeling from the devastation of three hurricanes worsened by a warming climate, the Trump administration and GOP senators in the Gulf continued to push fossil fuel extraction. On October 18, two senators […]
Fossil Fuel Misinformation Helps Quash Community Effort to Ban Fracking in Youngstown, Ohio
Fossil Fuel Misinformation Helps Quash Community Effort to Ban Fracking in Youngstown, Ohio For the first time since 2013, a group of activists in Youngstown, Ohio, has been told it cannot place an anti-fracking initiative on local ballots, due in part to a misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry. On October 6, the Ohio Supreme […]
How Oil Hijacked Alberta’s Politics: Behind the Curtain With Former Liberal Leader Kevin Taft
How Oil Hijacked Alberta’s Politics: Behind the Curtain With Former Liberal Leader Kevin Taft For decades, Kevin Taft has served as a thorn in the side of Alberta’s provincial government. In his new book, Taft, who served as a Liberal MLA between 2001 and 2012, and as leader of the Alberta Liberal Party — the province’s […]
Climate Scientists Attack Tony Abbott’s ‘Misleading’ Speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation
Climate Scientists Attack Tony Abbott’s ‘Misleading’ Speech to Global Warming Policy Foundation Australian climate scientists have hit back at their former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, describing his speech to a London think tank as being laced with distortions, falsehoods, misrepresentations, and misdirection. Abbott told the contrarian Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) that rising carbon dioxide emissions from […]
Five Things You Need to Know About the Cancellation of the Energy East Oilsands Pipeline
Five Things You Need to Know About the Cancellation of the Energy East Oilsands Pipeline TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline is officially dead. Announced via press release on Thursday, the news confirmed long-held suspicions that the $15.7 billion, 4,500 km oilsands pipeline simply wouldn’t cut it in today’s economic context. But that hasn’t stopped commentators on all […]
Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Want Government To Act On Climate Change, But There’s A Catch
Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Want Government To Act On Climate Change, But There’s A Catch New polling data provides some inspiring news about the prospects for climate change action in the United States. According to public policy polling conducted by AP–NORC and the Energy Policy Institute at The University of Chicago, 61% of American citizens […]
Welfare Kings? Study Finds Half of New Oil Production Unprofitable Without Government Handouts
Welfare Kings? Study Finds Half of New Oil Production Unprofitable Without Government Handouts A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy found that 50 percent of new oil production in America would be unprofitable if not for government subsidies. The study, performed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track, Inc., found that, at […]
Ohio Communities Face ‘Voter Suppression’ in Push to Rein in Oil and Gas Development
Ohio Communities Face ‘Voter Suppression’ in Push to Rein in Oil and Gas Development Three years in a row, communities in Ohio have attempted to vote on initiatives that would grant them greater say over oil and gas development in their jurisdictions, but over and over again, appointed officials, some with direct ties to the […]
From Homes to Refineries, Finding Pollution and Loss in Harvey’s Path
From Homes to Refineries, Finding Pollution and Loss in Harvey’s Path When Harvey’s rain, for the most part, stopped falling on August 30, I started making my way from Louisiana to Texas to document the pollution inevitably left in the storm’s path. That day I got as far as Vidor, a small town in southeast […]
How Exxon Used the New York Times to Make You Question Climate Science
How Exxon Used the New York Times to Make You Question Climate Science A breakthrough study from Harvard unearths the extent Exxon has gone to in order to destroy the public’s trust in climate change science. Last week, Harvard University researchers Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes (of Merchants of Doubt fame) published the first peer-reviewed study comparing ExxonMobil’s internal […]
