There is something of the ironic here. At the same time as scientists are meeting in Paris to put their final touches to the latest IPCC a report (which is warning over accelerated warming and melting), experts are meeting in...
"President Biden promised to end the leasing program entirely due to its deadly threat to the climate, but Interior's recommendations fall far short of that goal — and ring particularly hollow days after the largest lease sale in U.S. history," said...
As the fracking industry tries to expand internationally, being promoted as a so-called clean bridge fuel, it is increasingly clear the industry has not one, but two, Achilles heels.
Yesterday, the Republican-backed Senate tried and failed to overcome the Presidential veto on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
Baker Hughes, a fracking giant, is distributing hundreds of pink drill bits to drilling sites around the world in “honor” of breast cancer awareness month. Along with our allies, we took action.
An analysis of oil spilled in the transportation process by Oil Change International using data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Office reveals that the number of spills from crude by rail increased by almost 10 times from...
In California, the industry's use of toxic acids is set to rocket, but the practice is unregulated.
A year after the the Canadians launched a monitoring programme for the tar sands, no data has been released.
Despite overwhelming community resistance and evidence of groundwater pollution, the shale gas revolution continues apace. “In the middle of the last decade”, writes Ed Crooks in today’s special report on energy in the Financial Times, “it looked as if the...
BP’s spill does pose threats to human health and seafood safety, according to a new study published by the peer-reviewed scientific Journal of the American Medical Association. The report comes days after President Obama swam in the Gulf at Panama...
