Category: Fossil Fuels

If you believe in voting with your wallet and your conscience, you’ll want to stay as far as possible from any Chevron gasoline station.  None of the Big Oil companies is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Exxon Mobil’s a …

Targeted With Probably the Most Vicious Corporate Counterattack in American History Read More »

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A great deal of the environmental damage that was done during the Trump administration is either already repaired or is in the process of becoming so.  Many of these issues took a mere stroke of the pen (or click of …

Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies? Read More »

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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 …

Coal and Politics in West Virginia Read More »

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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 …

In the U.S., a New Day Dawns for Energy and Environmental Responsibility Read More »

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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 — …

Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Will Remain Pristine Read More »

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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 …

Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Read More »

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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: …

Are We Saying Goodbye To the Arctic Wilderness Refuge? Read More »

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 …

Sierra Club: The Coal Mining Industry Is Collapsing, and Communities Are at Risk from Abandoned Mines Read More »

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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 …

ExxonMobil Is a Financial and Ethical Trainwreck Read More »

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Those who want to know how ExxonMobil plans to “vacuum CO2 directly out of the air” will learn practically nothing about the subject from this website, which is so entirely vague that it could have been the product of a …

ExxonMobil and Citizenship Read More »

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