With only a few days to go in the UN climate talks in Cancún, many questions remain on the outcomes, including on one of the most important issues currently on the table – climate finance. Finance in the context of...
So the car crash somehow didn’t happen. Somehow the groundhog talks managed to conjure up a deal in the last twenty four hours. A diplomatic rabbit was pulled by the Mexican hosts out of the hat. It is a deal...
It is widely accepted that people give money to politicians to curry favour and buy influence. So there will be no surprises that there are smug smiles on the faces of the oil and coal barons this week as the...
Ever since BP’s complex deal with Russian giant Rosneft was announced late last Friday, the list of critics to the deal has been growing. Take today’s leader in the Financial Times that calls the deal “risky, ethically vexing” and a...
There is a new climate villain on the bloc. No its not a big oil company. But a 39 year old aristocrat banker from Britain. Nathaniel Rothschild, commonly known as "Nat" comes from a dynasty that is built on banking...
This post is cross-published from ProPublica. Congress isn’t going to regulate hydraulic fracturing any time soon. But the Department of Interior might. [2] For starters, Interior is mulling whether it should require drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use...
Last night, The President once again proposed ending subsidies to the oil industry. As we've said before, this is a great idea, and should be supported in full. That said, although we haven't seen details, it's quite unlikely that the...
This is a cross post from Brad Johnson and Noreen Nelson at the Center for American Progress. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, now under Republican control, is holding a hearing right now to discuss blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
The good old American Petroleum Institute is up to its old tricks again, scaremongering over jobs. The API held “citizen” rallies in seven cities in early September to discuss the effect of energy legislation on jobs, arguing that many jobs...
The next resource war may happen not in the Middle East, but in the Arctic. That is the view of the one of NATO's most senior commanders, Admiral James Stavridis, the supreme allied commander for Europe. The Admiral's argument is...
