In March, an EPA science panel unanimously agreed that smog-producing ozone levels should be lowered. But the White House’s Office of Management and Budget held a series of close-door meetings (including one which even excluded the EPA), industry lobbyists claimed...
Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes and the world's largest freshwater reservoir, has fallen to its lowest level in 81 years. Its decline is being seen as evidence of the effect that climate change is having on the North...
The US Senate passed a broad energy bill late yesterday that will require the first big increase in fuel mileage requirements for passenger cars in American in more than two decades. The vote, 65 to 27, was a major defeat...
Will Nicolas Robin of Brussels-based lobbying firm Cabinet Stewart become ‘European consultant of the year’ when the winners of the “Public Affairs News Awards” are announced on 5 July? Mr. Robin has been nominated for his work for the International...
No surprises here really. Anything that remotely threatens the interests of Exxon will be opposed. The oil dinosaur has done it so spectacularly on climate, and now it is coming out fighting against the new US energy bill. The proposed...
The Americans move out and the Chinese move in. The day after Exxon and ConcoPhillips pulled out of heavy oil projects in Venezuela, the China Petrochemical Corp, known as Sinopec, the nation's second-largest oil producer, is in talks to drill...
With gasoline prices at record highs, the U.S. House has passed a bill that makes gas-price gouging a federal crime. Washington Senator Maria Cantwell has pushed such legislation for two years in the Senate, and the Majority Leader Harry Reid...
A statement released June 1 by the US Government Accountability Office (the "investigative" arm of Congress), finds that "the US federal government receives one of the lowest government takes [from oil and gas development] in the world." The testimony, delivered...
Well all the papers this morning are about the new cold war stand-off between American and Russia over its missile defence system, with Putin retaliating that he might position Russian nuclear weapons towards Europe. Well nuclear missiles are not the...
There has been another spate of hostage taking in Nigeria. At least 16 foreign workers were kidnapped early today in two separate incidents in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region. Eight Filipinos, three South Koreans and a Nigerian employee were abducted...
