A "breakthrough" on deforestation is set to be the first success of the UN climate talks in Bali. Diplomats are said to be confident that the "road map" to a new climate-change treaty would contain a crucial reference to forests....
And its Happy Xmas to Big Coal too. Britain plans to build eight new coal power stations as part of the country's efforts to address its looming energy crisis. Although it is an early Christmas present to Big Coal, it...
(Bali, Dec. 16) A day after the dramatic ending of the Bali climate talks, many are wondering if the result was indeed best outcome possible given the circumstances. The US was brought back to the fold, but at the cost...
This is getting silly. There has been yet another oil spill. Rescuers are trying to contain an oil slick from a small tanker that capsized at a port in central Indonesia yesterday, after it was loaded up with more than...
Auto makers finally face higher fuel efficiency standards in the US. Sort of. After years of holding out against anything to do with climate change, President George Bush finally signed into law an energy bill establishing higher fuel-economy standards for...
While many impoverished American families are shivering in the winter cold for lack of money to pay the oil baron their exorbitant price for home heating oil, ex-oil man, George W. Bush sleeps in a warm White House and relishes...
The American Speaker of the House of Representatives has announced she will request a new investigation by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security into the November 7th oil spill in San Francisco Bay. Central to the investigation...
"God is Brazilian," declared the country's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after his government's announcement earlier this month that massive new oil reserves had been discovered offshore. Brazil's government and the state-run oil company Petrobras announced two weeks ago...
The US federal government has filed suit against the owners and pilot of the container ship that ran into San Francisco's Bay Bridge on November 7th. The suit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, seeks compensation for cleanup costs...
Global coalition calls for an end to ‘oil aid’ October 19, 2007, Washington, DC. – More than 200 organisations from 56 countries are calling on the World Bank and other international financial institutions to end subsidies to the oil industry....
