As I predicted a few years ago, the oil companies are headed in the direction that the tobacco industry took 50 years ago. They: • Conducted research that confirms the damage that its product causes • Aggressively denyied the truth …
Category: Fossil Fuels
The Two Faces of Fossil Fuel Consumption
Here’s an interesting article that analyses the schizophrenic nature of our society. We know that climate change is caused in large measure by the consumption of fossil fuels, but we spend $200 billion per year subsidizing them. Spoiler alert: The …
A Week of Environmental Victories and Defeats: Just Another Day At the Office
The “bottomless war chest” of the oil companies has succeeded in gutting the State of California’s proposed Senate Bill 350, a measure calling for a 50 percent cut in petroleum use by 2030. On Wednesday, state law-makers announced that a …
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Justice May Be Nigh in Ecuador's Case Against Chevron
Over the past few years, I’ve written several articles calling out Chevron’s nauseating behavior in defiling the rain forests and people of Ecuador. As I’m fond of saying, there are over 200,000 groups around the world whose mission and purpose …
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Oil!
According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is the 156th anniversary of the first oil well, which was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Although petroleum had been seen and used much earlier, this was humankind’s first foray into exploration for the stuff. We all …
Note on Carbon Capture and Sequestration
A. J. Shaka, professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Irvine writes: I dislike CCS (carbon capture and sequestration) because, to me, it seems like a bait and switch to rationalize continued use of fossil fuels. I’m with …
Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” Campaign Has Been Incredibly Effective
For some reason, not everyone shares my approval of the Sierra Club. Say what you will, but their Beyond Coal campaign has succeeded in forcing the retirement of one coal plant every 10 days for 5 straight years. 200 coal …
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The Coal Industry Offers Jobs
A reader notes: The L.A. Times had an editorial today about the obvious need to abandon coal as an energy source, and yet what to do about the coal miners and others whose jobs directly exist because of that industry…..It gets …
From Guest Blogger Jane: The Real Cost of Our Increasing Energy Consumption
Making the world a better, healthier, and more sustainable place for future generations is certainly no easy task; if you’re researching environmental law programs, you’ve taken the first step toward making a difference. There are myriad environmental issues fighting for …
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More Discussion on Taking a Stand Against Fossil Fuels
In my post Energy Policy: Taking a Stand Against Fossil Fuels, I wrote: As a side note, I believe that carbon sequestration is a non-starter; we have a far greater opportunity to move to a low-carbon economy than we do perpetuating …
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