Enbridge Gets Another Federal Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Permit As Senate...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogOn January 16, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave Enbridge a controversialNationwide Permit 12 green-light for its proposed Line 78 pipeline, set to bring heavy tar sands...
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Scotland Places Indefinite Ban on Fracking
(Image: Protestors in Grangemouth, Scotland. Dec. 7, 2014 - Photo by Ric Lander) From thinkprogress.org:The Scottish government has announced that it will place a temporary ban on the controversial...
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Taylor Energy Oil Spill in Gulf Still Secretly Spewing Since 2004
(photo courtesy of the Gulf Restoration Network)From the AP, via The New Orleans Advocate:OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — A blanket of fog lifts, exposing a band of rainbow sheen that stretches for...
View ArticleEmails: How Obama Administration Secretly Approved Expanding Piece of...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogDeSmogBlog has obtained dozens of emails that lend an inside view of how the U.S. State Department secretly handed Enbridge a permit to expand the capacity of its...
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Jeb Bush Says it's "Really Arrogant" to be Certain About Man-Made Global Warming
(photo credit: Rollins College)From Talking Points Memo:Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Wednesday that it's "really arrogant" for people to say there's a scientific consensus on man-made...
View ArticleJudges Nixing Keystone XL South Cases Had Tar Sands-Related Oil Investments
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogOn August 4, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 10th Circuit shot down the Sierra Club's petition for rehearing motion for the southern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Opposes the KXL Pipeline
w00t! w00t!Apparently she just announced it at an Iowa Town Hall. From a tweet from reporter Samantha-Jo Roth:.@HillaryClinton - "I oppose Keystone XL pipeline" #IAcaucus pic.twitter.com/2pf0ah04B3...
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WH: China to Launch Carbon Cap-and-Trade Plan in 2017
(photo credit: John Masden)From The Guardian:China, the world’s biggest carbon polluter, will launch a national cap-and-trade scheme in 2017, the White House said on Thursday. The move, announced...
View Article#NoKXL Victory Lap
You did it!I did it!We. did. it !!!!!Let's be proud of our long fight and now celebrate our sweet victory. And then get back, re-envigorated, to tackling the ecosystemic challenges ahead.What a...
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President Obama opens Facebook page
Did You See? The White House has had/let President Obama open hiw own facebook page. Read more: www.politico.com/...POLITICO: White House opens Facebook page.President Barack Obama is upping his...
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World Reaction to Paris Climate Agreement
USA (Time)United Kingdom (BBC)France (Le Monde)Italy (La Repubblica)Spain (El Pais)Germany (Stern)Saudi Arabia (Al Arabiya)Japan (Nikkei)Australia (ABC)Just a tiny sample, but it suggests the entire...
View ArticleDuring Paris Climate Summit, Obama Signed Exxon-, Koch-Backed Bill Expediting...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogJust over a week before the U.S. signed the Paris climate agreement at the conclusion of the COP21 United Nations summit, President Barack Obama signed a bill into law with...
View Article2nd Largest US Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy
From Think Progress:Arch Coal, one of the United States’ largest coal companies, filed for bankruptcy on Monday in the hopes of eliminating more than $4.5 billion in long-term debt, according to a...
View ArticlePOTUS Blocks Arctic Oil Drilling Through 2022
From The Huffington Post:Further cementing President Barack Obama’s climate legacy, the Department of the Interior announced on Friday its intent to ban oil drilling in the U.S. section of the Arctic...
View ArticleExxonMobil Asks Trump to Maintain the Paris Climate Deal
From Fortune:ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company, is urging the White House to stick with the global climate agreement reached in Paris last year.In a letter sent to the...
View ArticleGive in, Give Up, or Give it All You Got
Those were the words of one KXL pipeline fighter testifying at the fourth and final public hearing of the Nebraska Public ServiceCommission (PSC) in Ralston, Nebraska on July 26, 2017.She was...
View Article"The Women got Sense, the Men got Dollars"
This morning the Nebraska Public Service Commission approved TransCanada’s Alternative Route through Nebraska. The vote was 2 against, 3 in favor of this disastrous export pipeline.When I told my...
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Petition: Greta Thunberg Visits Lakota Country and Joins Our Call to Stop...
What an important time it is for us in Lakota Country. A few weeks ago, we had the honor of hosting Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg at the Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations. Greta...
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