A group of eight “freshman” Democratic senators have introduced legislation that would impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies as well as revoking some government subsidies. The legislation, proposed by Senator Robert Casey, D-Pa., would impose a 50 percent...
The U.S. Interior Department will release today its new five-year plan to expand oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, as well Alaska and Virginia. The proposed drilling area includes major fishing areas and is set to be...
Hundreds of scientists are meeting in Bangkok this week on practical steps to combat climate change. By the of the week, delegates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are expected to come up with technological options to curb rising...
US carmakers have said told a House of Representatives subcommittee that the industry alone could not act on climate change. The heads of the big three - General Motors, Chrysler and Ford - said that measures to improve fuel efficiency...
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, fears the Americans will torpedo his government if his parliament does not pass Iraq’s controversial oil law. In what could be construed as diplomatic blackmail, American support for the al-Maliki administration is dependent on...
The head of France's biggest listed company, oil group Total SA , is being questioned by police in a probe into alleged corruption in Iran, reports Reuters. Christophe de Margerie, who only moved up to the chief executive's post at...
The FBI is investigating whether Alaska political appointees improperly punished state regulators who tried to enforce environmental rules against oil companies operating in Alaska. The inquiry is connected to an ongoing criminal investigation of BP for allowing pipelines it operates...
The increasingly tense standoff between Iran and the UK over the fate of 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran has helped drive crude oil prices to a six-month high. Traders sent the price of crude oil up by...
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science. According to GAP, political policies and practices "have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information...
On February 23rd, the community of energy activists lost one of our earliest and clearest voices for change in the oil industry. Robert Engler, whose many books included the seminal and prescient Brotherhood of Oil passed at his home in...
