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Nationwide Resistance To Crude Oil ‘Bomb Trains’ Gaining Momentum
Nationwide Resistance To Crude Oil ‘Bomb Trains’ Gaining Momentum The speed and scale with which the oil and rail industries created the North American oil-by-rail infrastructure was impressive. And amazingly under the radar for the most part — until the trains started derailing and blowing up — leading to articles with titles like “The Invisible Bomb Trains.” […]
Senators Introduce “Merchants of Doubt” Amendment Into Energy Bill, Call On Fossil Fuel Industry To End Climate Denial and Deception
Senators Introduce “Merchants of Doubt” Amendment Into Energy Bill, Call On Fossil Fuel Industry To End Climate Denial and Deception Democratic U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Ed Markey (MA) and Brian Schatz (HI) introduced an amendment into the energy bill yesterday intended to express Congress’s disapproval of the use of industry-funded think tanks and misinformation tactics aimed […]
G20 Countries Must Improve Credibility of Their Paris Climate Pledges, Report Warns
G20 Countries Must Improve Credibility of Their Paris Climate Pledges, Report Warns The credibility of countries’ climate pledges agreed in Paris in December particularly those of the G20 nations must be strengthened, warns a new report out today. While much attention has been given to scrutinising the level of ambition of each country’s intended nationally determined contribution […]
Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Bringing Fracking to Argentina
Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Bringing Fracking to Argentina Aubrey McClendon, the embattled former CEO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy, has announced his entrance into Argentina to begin hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the country’s Vaca Muerta Shale basin. Though he retired as Chesapeake Energy’s CEO back in 2013 in the aftermath of a shareholder revolt, McClendon wasted little time in creating a new company called […]
Beyond Koch: Meet the Other Right-Wing Oligarchs Featured in Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money”
Beyond Koch: Meet the Other Right-Wing Oligarchs Featured in Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money” The shenanigans of the “Kochtopus” have garnered most of the headlines — including here — pertaining to reviews of New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer’s new book, Dark Money. But the Koch Brothers and Koch Industries’ right-wing family foundation network are far from the only […]
There Will Be Blood – Oil Train Regulations Fail To Address Known Risks
There Will Be Blood – Oil Train Regulations Fail To Address Known Risks “Railroad rules have been written in blood.” This line was included in the annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads for the state of Michigan — in 1901. The idea was that safety rules were only implemented when enough blood had been spilled. One hundred […]
Rice University’s Baker Institute and the Academic Cover It Provides for Fossil Fuel Interests
Rice University’s Baker Institute and the Academic Cover It Provides for Fossil Fuel Interests When thinking about influential academic policy think tanks, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy doesn’t necessarily come first to mind. Slowly and steadily, however, the institute has turned into one of the nation’s most powerful outfits. In the 2009 “Global […]
Study Finds The ‘Era of Climate Science Denial Is Not Over’
Study Finds The ‘Era of Climate Science Denial Is Not Over’ Conservative think tanks in the United States are a sort of “ground zero” for the production of doubt about the links between fossil fuel burning and dangerous climate change. These think tanks produce reports, hold conferences, write books, go on television, produce columns and blogs […]
Breaking: TransCanada’s Hopes For “Zombie” Keystone XL Pipeline Revived As South Dakota Validates Expired Permit
Breaking: TransCanada’s Hopes For “Zombie” Keystone XL Pipeline Revived As South Dakota Validates Expired Permit The South Dakota Public Utility Commission (PUC) voted unanimously to keep TransCanada’s hopes for the Keystone XLpipeline alive by validating its permit certification that expired in 2014. Chris Nelson, the chair of the commission, concluded TransCanada could still meet all the conditions of its […]
Emails: US Government Facilitated LNG Business Deals Before Terminals Got Required Federal Permits
Emails: US Government Facilitated LNG Business Deals Before Terminals Got Required Federal Permits Emails and documents obtained by DeSmog reveal that the U.S. International Trade Administration has actively promoted and facilitated business deals for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry and export terminal owners, even before some of the terminals have the federal regulatory agency permits needed to open for business. […]
Record-Breaking 2015 Temperatures Connected To Ongoing Fish Kill on Mississippi Beaches
Record-Breaking 2015 Temperatures Connected To Ongoing Fish Kill on Mississippi Beaches Cleanup crews were dispatched to beaches in Hancock County, Mississippi, on December 27th to remove over a thousand dead fish and the remains of other animals. Scientists attributed the fish kill to a “red tide” algae bloom that took hold in early December. It won’t go away until […]
“Miracle of American Oil”: Continental Resources Courted Corporate Media to Sell Oil Exports
“Miracle of American Oil”: Continental Resources Courted Corporate Media to Sell Oil Exports A document published by the Public Relations Society of America, discovered by DeSmog, reveals that from the onset of its public relations campaign, the oil industry courted mainstream media reporters to help it sell the idea of lifting the ban on crude oil exports to the […]
Coal Mining’s Financial Failures: Two Thirds of World’s Production Now Unprofitable
Coal Mining’s Financial Failures: Two Thirds of World’s Production Now Unprofitable Sixty-five percent of the world’s coal production is unprofitable at today’s prices, a new research report by Wood Mackenzie, a commercial intelligence company often cited by investment analysts and the coal industry itself, concluded. Both major types of coal — the coking coal used for […]
Report: Eagle Ford Shale Has Peaked, Lifting of Oil Export Ban Could Drain Field More Quickly
Report: Eagle Ford Shale Has Peaked, Lifting of Oil Export Ban Could Drain Field More Quickly A new report published by the Post Carbon Institute concludes that Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale basin, the most prolific shale oil basin in the U.S., has peaked and reached terminal decline status. The Post Carbon report dropped just as Congress is on the […]
Agreement in Paris Paves Road For The End of Fossil Fuels
Agreement in Paris Paves Road For The End of Fossil Fuels History was made today in Paris as the leaders of 195 nations agreed to an ambitious, science-based pact to move the world away from the fossil fuels that are to blame for the rapid increase in global temperatures. After two weeks of negotiations here in the airport hangars […]
