Andy Rowell

Despite the spate of recent crude by rail accidents, the oil industry is lobbying against new safety measures.

As world leaders converged on the Swiss town of Lausanne over the weekend, their historic deliberations about Iran’s nuclear programme were said to have reached the “end-game” before the deadline at the end of the month.

The Canadian press and politicians are waking up to the fact that transporting tar sands by rail is as dangerous as Bakken.

The wave of anti-fracking protests sweeping the globe have now spread as far as North Africa.

In a deeply worrying and cynical move, officials in Florida working in the Department of Environmental Protection have been banned from using terms such as “climate change” or “global warming”.

Yesterday, the Republican-backed Senate tried and failed to overcome the Presidential veto on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.