Here’s a deeply moving article by legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben, covering the greed and criminality of the oil companies and the banks that support them, explaining how they’re capitalizing on the pandemonium caused by the coronavirus to push through their …
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Peak Oil Didn’t Happen, But….
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:
From the Washington Post–In North Carolina, Hurricanes Did What Scientists Could Not: Convince Republicans that Climate Change Is Real
Here’s a story about a few climate change deniers who became converts as a result of Hurricane Florence that tore through North Carolina and vicinity last month, causing massive flood damage and dumping coal ash, animal waste and raw sewage …
Environmental Protection Agency Suffers a Setback
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has had considerable success in helping his Big Oil clients run roughshod over the environment in their desperate quest to maintain their energy monopolies as far into the 21st Century as possible. But though the Trump …
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The Rapid Migration from Fossil Fuels: Check Out Ireland
Just another day on an absurd planet. Ireland is in the process of removing fossil fuels from its country, joining several European/Scandinavian countries that are moving swiftly in the same direction. Meanwhile, back in the good ol’ U.S., we’re moving …
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Trump on Renewables, Energy Efficiency
Counter-intuitive as it may be, President Trump (wow, it hurts to even type that) may provide an opportunity for renewable energy. For one, his energy plans (other than lifting restrictions on fossil fuel extraction) are very vague; it is believed …
Another High Five to the Obama Administration on Environmental Protection
It wasn’t but a couple of years ago that I was in a funk about the Obama Administration and the meager progress it had made on environmental issues. I’m so happy to be eating my words, based on what’s happened …
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Sour Grapes from ExxonMobil’s CEO
“Any fool can despise what he can’t have” is the moral of the most famous of the Aesop’s fables (“The Fox and the Grapes“). Sadly, Big Oil is incapable of participating in the rapid migration to renewable energy; oil and …
Can the Oil Companies Become “Energy Companies?”
Is it possible that Big Oil can morph itself into so many “energy companies,” in the sense that they offer an overhauled set of (cleaner) energy resources? Over the years, I’ve consistently denied that they are capable of this (even …
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Big Oil and Campaign Finance Reform in the U.S.
Those hoping for campaign finance reform that would reduce the corruptive influence of money on politics took a drubbing in November. Witness the election postmortem of the ambitious MayDay SuperPAC, an attempt to use contributions from grass roots sources to …
