New White House policy admits social cost of carbon higher than they thought
The official policy of the Obama administration now asserts that the social cost of carbon emissions to society are 60% higher than they previously estimated.
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Detroit’s petcoke pile helps a struggling coal plant stay in business…more to come?
The story of the Detroit petcoke pile should give the Obama administration some serious pause as they consider the Keystone XL decision.
Let The Tar Sands Healing Begin
Later today, the 4th Annual Healing Walk will take place near Fort McMurray in Alberta in Canada.
Senate Beats Back Fossil Fuel Millions to Confirm Gina McCarthy for EPA
The 40 Senators voting against Gina McCarthy's nomination for EPA Administrator would have voted against anyone who would even consider measures that could affect the fossil fuel industry...thanks to $25 million in dirt energy money.
Beating back the climate denial behind All of the Above
Paying lip service to climate science and then running full speed ahead down the fossil fuel pathway to climate chaos is just another form of climate denial. We need our leaders to wake up and make some hard choices, commensurate...
British PM Talking “Baseless Economics” over Fracking
One of the most influential economists of his generation, Lord Stern, has rebuked the British Prime Minister David Cameron over his claim that fracking will bring down gas prices in the UK.
Adverts Slam KXL as “Bad Deal for America”
The leading anti-Keystone critic, billionaire and former hedge-fund manager,Tom Steyer has launched a $1-million anti-KXL advertising campaign across the US
“Overwhelming evidence that BP is grossly negligent”
Today, nearly three years after BP’s disastrous Deepwater Horizon spill, which claimed eleven lives and led to the largest oil spill in US history, the company is finally due in the dock.
Industry experts expect Keystone XL crude to be directly exported
Talk of US crude exports apparently reached new heights this week at the Platts North American Crude Oil Marketing Conference, which ends today in Houston. It has been a familiar cry at such shindigs for the past year or so,...
Latest pro-Keystone XL effort comes from oil-fueled Congressmen
The latest effort in the House of Representatives to circumvent the President's authority and extensive processes that have been developed to make decisions on projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline came out today. Today it comes via a discussion...