Apparently, Sen. Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) accepted thousands of dollars in donations from a political action committee founded by a fellow Senate Democrat, progressive Jeff Merkley (D-OR), who wants to put “every coal electricity generating plant in a museum,” a …
Category: Fossil Fuels
In the U.S., a New Day Dawns for Energy and Environmental Responsibility
From Desmog, an organization whose mission is: “Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science.” Finally, as President Joe Biden entered the White House he signed a slew of executive orders on January 20, including rejoining the Paris climate agreement …
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Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Will Remain Pristine
From NPR: One of the Trump administration’s biggest environmental rollbacks suffered a stunning setback Wednesday, as a decades-long push to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with a lease sale that attracted just three bidders — …
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Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
Over the coming 15 years or so, the citizens of Earth will experience great change. From the standpoint of the energy and transportation sectors, that will mean decarbonization, both in our grid-mix and in our automobiles. The years between 2030 …
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Are We Saying Goodbye To the Arctic Wilderness Refuge?
We can all see that Trump is burning the country (and the rest of the world) to the ground as he leaves office, yet his ploy of leasing the Arctic refuge is probably not going to work. That’s because of: …
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Sierra Club: The Coal Mining Industry Is Collapsing, and Communities Are at Risk from Abandoned Mines
Someday soon, coal-fired power plants will have completely disappeared, at least here in the U.S. That’s good, but while this transition is taking place, what’s being done to ensure that the soon-to-be defunct companies that operate the mines take responsibility …
ExxonMobil Is a Financial and Ethical Trainwreck
From Labor411.org: Exxon announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce over the next year, which means pink slips for about 14,000 employees worldwide. With oil prices in decline and fossil fuels in the crosshairs as global climate …
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Tagged with: climate-related regulation, divest from fossil fuels, ExxonMobil Is a Financial and Ethical Trainwreck, litigation and possible criminal charges associated with hiding what they knew about emissions and global warming, market fundamentals hit Exxon hard over a period of time, stranded assets
Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Vancouver became the first city to sign an initiative called the “Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty,” an effort along the lines of earlier global agreements that the world put into place to prevent nuclear war and the destruction of Earth’s ozone …
Big Oil Comes to Africa
According to the American Energy Society, here’s what’s happening in Africa with respect to oil exploration and extraction: Uganda, Kenya and Total are building a pipeline to carry Ugandan oil to the Kenya coast. South Africa’s offshore Luiperd Block might be larger than 500 million …
