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Renewable Energy Still Struggling

Renewable energy sill only accounts for 14 percent of the energy consumed in the world today, according to new figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA). This compares to six percent for nuclear power and a massive 80 percent for...

Exposing Exxon’s Pit Bull

Great article from Business Week Magazine about how Exxon attacked Greenpeace through an organisation called Public Interest Watch. Although this was recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, what was not reported was the role of the shadowy PR firm...

Expect a New Backlash On Climate Science

The news reported in the scientific journal Nature this month that trees might be account for about 10 to 30 per cent of the potent greenhouse gas methane that is entering the atmosphere is a gift to climate skeptics and...

Chevron Fights Rights Abuse Allegations

Check out this AP article re: Chevron in Ecuador and Nigeria. Quotes from Oil Change, Earthrights, and Amazon Watch. By TERENCE CHEA The Associated Press Sunday, January 1, 2006; 8:32 PM SAN FRANCISCO -- A young boy holds out a...

Russia Turns off the Tap – A Sign of Things to Come?

So three days into the New Year and we have already had our first energy crisis, with a spat between Russia and Ukraine over gas prices. What started as a regional argument soon rapidly spread affecting Italy, Hungary, France, Germany...

Biofuels Not the Answer

They may be in favour at the White House, but a new report attacks the concept of biofuels being the panacea for either climate change or energy security. Written by the British-based think tank Science in Society (ISIS), it says...

Bush Expected to Stress Energy Security

A year after warning that America was addicted to oil, President Bush is expected to renew concerns about energy security in his State of the Union address tomorrow night. But despite his positive rhetoric, little has changed over the last...

U.S. Airlines Prepare for Battle Over Growing Emissions

When British Environment Minister Ian Pearson accused U.S. airlines of being "completely irresponsible" about climate change late last year, they are said to have responded with a shrug. So far climate change has been way down their list of worries....

Dozen Niger Delta Chiefs Assassinated

Reports in the Nigerian press suggest twelve chiefs from the Kula community in Rivers State were killed earlier this month, bringing the death-toll in the area to twenty five in oil-related violence. The Vanguard newspaper reports that the Kula Chiefs...

Meanwhile, on the Hill…

Reporting back from Senator Boxer’s first hearing as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which included in-person or written statements (all of which will be made publicly available by the Committee) from approximately a third of the...