Only last week, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva rejected allegations that biofuels are responsible for the recent rise in global food prices. In a diplomatic rebuke, two other Latin American leaders have now issued dire warnings about the...
The Economist notes that the Canadian government is now scrambling to secure an exception to The Energy Independence and Security Act 2007 over Canada’s dirty oil. "The Act bans federal agencies from buying alternative or synthetic fuel, including that from...
Great analysis on the Bali conference from Charles Clover, the environment correspondent from the UK right-wing Telegraph, which we reprint in full: "As an exhibition of hypocrisy, the UN climate change conference in Bali takes some beating. The Indonesian President...
The Majority Leader of the American House of Representatives Steny Hoyer has admitted Congress had not reached a breakthrough on a compromise energy package but still hoped to bring the legislation back into consideration next month. The Democrat House Speaker...
Halliburton has said that its subsidiary in Iran had completed all its commitments and was no longer working in the country. In January 2005, the company said that it would not accept new work in Iran but that it would...
BP’s Chief Executive, Lord Browne, was not interested in safety issues at the oil company’s American plants, according to evidence to an internal investigation into the Texas City refinery explosion, in which 15 people died and 180 were seriously injured....
Great article in the New York Times about the malaise of Washington’s over sight of the oil industry and how it has taken a retired federal auditor to expose the comfy collusion between the industry and its regulators. For years...
In another break from the failed Bush policies, today President Obama is expected to direct federal regulators to allow an application by California and 13 other states to set strict automobile emission and fuel efficiency standards. Known as the “Californian...
Who would be an oil baron these days? Profits are down, the oil price is bouncing depressingly around in the mid-forties, reserves are running dry, and the promised land of tar sands is not looking that promising after all. And...
A group of scientists and concerned citizens dropped banners at the Washington DC Convention Center for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual conference where Lockheed Martin sponsors. Large banners draped over the main lobby read "Lockheed Bombs The Planet For...
