Some good news for a change. Yesterday the Clinton Global Initiative highlighted the Ecuadorian proposal about "Leaving Ecuador's Oil in the Ground" which seeks to avoid carbon emissions and save the Yasuni Rainforest. The “Yasuni Proposal” as it is known...
Representatives Maxine Waters (Democrat from California) and Spencer Bachus (Republican from Alabama) have introduced the 2007 Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation (HR 2634) in the United States House of Representatives. Oil Change International has been working...
EU officials and OPEC met in Vienna yesterday for an "Energy Dialogue". The EU argued that oil prices were about as high as consumers could bear, challenging OPEC to lift restrictions on production. OPEC retaliated that the oil market is...
A group of 40 German NGOs called on G8 Environment Ministers today to phase out fossil fuel subsidies at home and use their influence to steer the World Bank away from fossil fuels and towards a new energy revolution. A...
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...
Scientists studying satellite imagery from the Canadian Arctic have just discovered that the Ayles Ice Shelf broke free of Ellesmere Island sixteen months ago. In an AP story running widely this morning, Warwick Vincent of Laval University said: "This is...
Just when you thought the debate on climate change was done and dusted, an annoying climate sceptic has popped up trying to continue the oil industry’s campaign to deny and delay action on the issue. For the last couple of...
OK – I’m not a lawyer and who am I to question the judgement of the top judges in the US, especially not the Supreme Court. Having said that I certainly feel that they must be living in a bubble....
Not convinced yet of the need to Separate Oil and State? Great article in yesterday’s LA Times, that exposes how a “rule designed by the US Environmental Protection Agency to keep groundwater clean near oil drilling sites was loosened after...
We are now used to the issue of climate change being covered in the mainstream press. But what about the issue being discussed by the press in developing countries? The UK development group, Panos, has just published a disturbing report...
