While the Onion reports on historic events in Washington, the Competitive Enterprise Institute launches a campaign with the tagline - "Carbon Dioxide...They call it Pollution, We call it LIFE!" You can't make this shit up. CEI has received more money...
To its supporters its shear size is something special, for the Airbus 380 that landed for the first time at London's Heathrow yesterday is enormous. Its wing span is bigger than a football pitch - it weighs 150 tonnes and...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is said to have “icily” rejected US and EU criticism of Russia's blatant use of gas resources as a political weapon in a dispute with Ukraine earlier in the year. More importantly he also publicly rebuffed...
The headline says it all: "The Man Who Sold the Planet". Today’s Independent newspaper launches a major offensive at Exxon and Lee Raymond, the "Darth Vader of global warming" for their “denial that carbon emissions cause climate change”. Reporting on...
A landmark study by UNEP – published to coincide with World Environment Day – has concluded that the world’s deserts are facing dramatic changes due to climate change and increasing demand for water. Almost one-quarter of the earth’s land surface...
Anyone who thinks ethanol is the answer to US transportation needs, should read this great article by CorpWatch about ethanol and Archer Daniels Midland, the largest producer of ethanol in the US. The company is proposing producing ethanol from coal...
This is a must see TV programme. As part of the BBC's Climate Chaos series, the investigative programme Panorama has examined the Bush administration’s assault on the science of climate change. It includes stories of threats, gagging, cover-ups, censorships, misleading...
Given what we have been saying about BP on the site recently, it is amusing to read a a different angle from Thomas Borelli, the editor of FreeEnterpriser.com and a senior fellow at The National Center for Public Policy Research,...
For want of getting repetitious, it seems that BP has yet another corrosion problem in Alaska – this is its third. Chuck Hamel, BP’s bette noir, wrote to Stephen Johnson, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to report...
The Republicans are trying to get the upper hand in the escalating political battle over high gasoline prices by proposing a $100 rebate for taxpayers, by suggesting that they might increase taxes on oil-industry profits, and by proposing the old...
