Category: Fossil Fuels

Renewable propane offers an identical composition to the conventional kind, making it suitable for any application compatible with that kind of fuel. This propane gets made with 100% renewable and raw materials, such as vegetable oil and waste residues. Despite …

From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: Can Renewable Propane Overtake Less Sustainable Fuels? Read More »

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It’s nice to see that there is some level of justice out there in the icy cold universe, so completely indifferent, as it is, to human happiness.  Sometimes bad things actually do happen to bad people.

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Who won the award for “Worst Year in Energy” for 2019?  Was it Rick Perry, who resigned as Energy Secretary when his connection to the Ukraine scandal became evident?  Could be.  But don’t count out the owner of the largest …

Energy: The Year in Review Read More »

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Those looking for a blow-by-blow description of the demise of the coal industry in the Powder River Basin in the north-central U.S. can get it in the article linked above.

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From this article: The Navajo Generating Station, located near the Arizona-Utah border, has officially shut down after using the last of its coal, according to a Monday press release.

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The European Investment Bank, the world’s largest multilateral development bank, is soon to end lending money to organizations associated with fossil fuels. What happens when capital dries up?  The entire industry slides inexorably into oblivion. Fossil fuels made the 20th …

Another Nail in the Coffin for Fossil Fuels Read More »

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From this week’s newsletter from the American Energy Society: Conventional oil discoveries have been declining; however, there were three large oil discoveries in 2019:

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The toxicity of coal ash, and the fact that the Trump administration couldn’t care less about it, are two well-established facts. Here we have an article that chronicles the unraveling of previous guidelines by a) easing regulations on what pollutants …

Banner Day for the Coal Industry, Wish We Could Say the Same for Your Health Read More »

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Most readers will not feel the direct effects of the Trump administration’s rollback of the EPA regulations that had formerly kept toxic chemicals like mercury and arsenic out of our drinking water.

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As reported by Bloomberg, Robert E. Murray, the U.S. coal baron who pressed the Trump administration to help save America’s struggling miners, placed his company into bankruptcy as demand for fossil fuel continues to weaken.

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