Americans woke up this morning to learn that Republican senator from Alaska Lisa Murkowski, introduced legislation last night that would open a portion of a pristine wildlife refuge in her state to oil and gas development.
Category: Fossil Fuels
ExxonMobil In the News
From Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest: Oil giant paying for air pollution improvements:
From Guest Blogger Eileen O’Shanassy: Gas and Diesel–A Tale of Two Fuels
The debate between which fuel, gas or diesel, is “better” has been a longstanding one, especially since the auto industry has implemented several improvements in greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy. But not everyone sees what is best in the …
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Regarding the Shuttering of Coal-Fired power Plants, We’re Playing the Back Nine
With closing of two more coal plants in Texas, the U.S. has crossed the half-way threshold (262 of the original 543 plants closed, 261 remaining open). As is always the case, there were multiple “causes of death” in the two …
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Was Obama Terrified of Coal?
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: How much difference a mere nine months can make! One of President Obama’s few real accomplishments was his irrational hatred of the US coal industry. In a mere eight years, President Obama contributed to massive job …
The End of the “War on Coal”
Commenting on the wholesale environmental deregulation that the Trump administration has so successfully hurried along, an op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal notes, “Apparently, coal can be marketable, if regulators let it be.” Wow, that’s astute.
From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Four Ways the Manufacturing Industry Can Cut Down on Carbon Emissions
Report from an Intergovernmental panel on climate change has shown that climate system of the earth is getting warmer and warmer due to human contributions. As the level carbon dioxide increases, more heat is generated in the surface thus raising …
Which Way with the Coal Industry?
A commenter asked for my viewpoints on the coal industry, while claiming, incorrectly, that it’s supported by everyone except environmentalists who are “extremist and idealist.” Here goes: The first thing to understand about the coal industry is that it’s small …
The Environmental Protection Agency’s War on the Environment
As I suggested the other day, it’s useful to look at the nauseating, minute-by-minute drama happening in the White House as an artful distraction, much like a magician’s misdirecting his audience. We need to ask ourselves: What’s happened quietly, behind …
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Discussions of Fracking Need To Be Fair
Below is a video that does a good job at explaining how fracking works. It’s all true, but the presentation is imbalanced and unfair, as it doesn’t present how completely screwed we’d be in the absence of fracking, which would …
