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‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate
‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate The United Nations (UN) climate science panel is being accused of ignoring research into fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns that have been key to holding back action on global warming. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — an […]
Massachusetts Gas Explosions Draw Scrutiny of Natural Gas Safety and Climate Risks
Massachusetts Gas Explosions Draw Scrutiny of Natural Gas Safety and Climate Risks A quiet, sunny afternoon in New England quickly turned to chaos and tragedy as a series of 80 fires and explosions erupted across three communities in the Merrimack Valley north of Boston on September 13. Extreme overpressure in a Columbia Gas distribution system […]
Fossil Fuel Companies Knew How Hard Keeping to IPCC’s ‘Unprecedented’ 1.5C Limit Would Be — And Did Nothing
Fossil Fuel Companies Knew How Hard Keeping to IPCC’s ‘Unprecedented’ 1.5C Limit Would Be — And Did Nothing The scientists are clear: “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” are needed if the humans are going to prevent the world warming by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This news — emanating from the release of […]
South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change
South Carolina Still Grappling with Historic Flooding from Florence, a Storm Worsened by Climate Change South Carolina was spared the worst of Hurricane Florence’s fury when the storm made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, but did not escape its catastrophic impacts. Nearly two weeks later, the state was still contending with historic flooding. Flooded house in Socastee, […]
Climate Emissions From Gulf Coast’s New Petrochemical, Oil and Gas Projects Same as 29 New Coal Power Plants
Climate Emissions From Gulf Coast’s New Petrochemical, Oil and Gas Projects Same as 29 New Coal Power Plants In the last six years, officials in Texas and Louisiana issued permits allowing 74 petrochemical, oil, and gas projects to pump as much climate-warming pollution into the atmosphere as running 29 coal-fired power plants around the clock, […]
‘Mud and Confusion’: Oil and Gas Industry Goes On Defense as Studies Show Offshore Exploration Could Kill Zooplankton
‘Mud and Confusion’: Oil and Gas Industry Goes On Defense as Studies Show Offshore Exploration Could Kill Zooplankton “We knew it was going to cause a stir,” said Australian marine scientist Dr. Robert McCauley. McCauley was referring to the results of an experiment testing the impacts of a common oil and gas industry technique in waters off southern […]
Trump Admin Accelerates Push to Export Fracking to Argentina
Trump Admin Accelerates Push to Export Fracking to Argentina In June, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry traveled to Bariloche, Argentina, for a G20 Summit where he expressed his desire to help Argentina become more like Texas, his home state. “The technology that has allowed for the shale gas revolution in America, we want to make […]
The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare
The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has clearly documented the multiple risks — despite repeated dismissals from the oil and gas industry — that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) poses to drinking water supplies. However, the tables may be turning: Water itself now poses a risk to the already failing financial model of the American fracking industry, and […]
Pipeline that Exploded in Pennsylvania Part of Push to Build Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Network
Pipeline that Exploded in Pennsylvania Part of Push to Build Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Network Just before dawn Monday morning, Chuck Belczyk thought a jet had crashed near his home roughly 25 miles outside Pittsburgh – until he heard the sound of hissing gas. “And that’s when it all hit us what was happening,” Belczyk told NPR’s State […]
The 19th-Century Tumult Over Climate Change – And Why It Matters Today
The 19th-Century Tumult Over Climate Change – And Why It Matters Today Back in the 19th century, when tractors were still pulled by horses and the word “computer” meant a person hired to carry out tedious calculations, climate science made front-page news. One European forester remarked in 1901 that few questions had “been debated and addressed […]
Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along
Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along It took oil company Shell more than 16 years to directly warn its shareholders that climate policy posed a financial risk to the company’s business model despite knowing — in private and for decades — about the relationship between its […]
Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440% in Half Decade, Adding to Dry Regions’ Water Woes
Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440% in Half Decade, Adding to Dry Regions’ Water Woes Between 2011 and 2016, fracked oil and gas wells in the U.S. pumped out record-breaking amounts of wastewater, which is laced with toxic and radioactive materials, a new Duke University study concludes. The amount of wastewater from fracking rose 1,440 percent during that period. […]
Supercharged by Pollution, Florida’s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated
Supercharged by Pollution, Florida’s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated “Covering stuff up doesn’t make it go away,” said Lilly Womble, an 18-year-old on vacation on Florida’s Sanibel Island. The island is world renowned for its sea shells but that day we were watching employees from the Sanibel Moorings Resort pull a sheet over a dead loggerhead sea […]
The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks
The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks In the climactic final scene in There Will Be Blood — arguably the greatest movie about the oil industry — the main character played by Daniel Day Lewis explains how he sucked the oil from a neighbor’s land by using horizontal drilling. To help his neighbor […]
Portland, Oregon Wins Court Battle to Ban New Oil Infrastructure
Portland, Oregon Wins Court Battle to Ban New Oil Infrastructure In a big win for the City of Portland, Oregon, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued a ruling that the city had not violated the U.S.Constitution’s Commerce Clause by voting to ban any new fossil fuel terminals within its borders. “This is a major victory for […]
