In an effort to discredit Biden, a reader sent me the meme here. The short answer, as shown below, is essentially the same as it was 15 years ago. The longer and more interesting answer is that Biden has no …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Public Pension Funds’ Investments in Corporate Polluters
Question: Here’s an update from Bloomberg Green on pension funds’ move to divest themselves of Big Oil and other corporate polluters. Before you open it, take a cool guess: What percent of the total remains in these dirty investments? Answer: …
Pipeline Rupture Creates “Eye of Fire” in Gulf of Mexico
Our society lives with more or less constant reminders that fossil fuels, while extremely well suited to the 20th Century need to be phased out as quickly as feasible. Some of these reminders are more spectacular than others, as shown …
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ExxonMobil CEO Apologizes After Covert Recording of Key Lobbyist Reveals Oil Behemoth’s Battle Against Climate Legislation
As presented in the article linked here, a senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been captured on camera claiming that the oil giant is waging a secret war on climate change legislation. The covert recordings was filmed by Greenpeace UK. Did anyone …
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Some Bad Days for Big Oil, and More To Come
As Bill McKibben notes here, it really hasn’t been a good couple of days for Big Oil. Are investors concerned about the baking of the planet at the hands of the fossil fuel industry, or are they worried about the …
The Long Arm of the Law Is Pursuing Fossil Fuel Companies
Energy consultant and 2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie reports from his home in Buckinghamshire, England (see pic): A rising tide of legal cases, and shareholder action is putting increasing pressure on fossil fuel companies to actively work on reducing their climate …
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Axing Coal, Like Any Other Improvement, Offers a Range of Benefits
From the American Energy Society: Every coal fired power plant in the world has a specific size requirment, and the same is true for all industries that require ore from waste rock as well as metal oxide powders. The process …
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Targeted With Probably the Most Vicious Corporate Counterattack in American History
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 …
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Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies?
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 …
Coal and Politics in West Virginia
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 …
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