Questions: How much has the fossil fuel industry spent to avoid dealing with climate change since the year 2000? What is the ratio of what they’ve spent on lobbyists vs. all environmental groups combined?
Tag: fossil fuel industry
Add One More Climate Change Denier and Fossil Fuel Industry Lobbyist to the EPA’s Payroll
It’s been another banner day for the forces that seek to perpetuate coal and oil at the expense of the health and safety of every man, woman and child living on Earth, and all those yet to be born onto …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Question: What country just became the first to divest its entire national holdings from fossil fuels?
More Evidence of Global Warming—But Does It Matter?
Going “clamming” on the beaches of the Northeastern U.S. means hunting for the little guys pictured here, the quahog. But did you know that you could be making chowder out of something that had been alive for more than 500 …
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More on the ExxonMobil / Climate Change Criminal Investigation
Here’s a note I thought I would share from Greenpeace on the litigation against ExxonMobil re: their understanding, which has been in place for as long as 40 years, of the role that fossil fuel consumption would inevitably play in destroying …
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Climate Change and Hurricane Matthew
Here’s a fun little challenge you may want to take. Tune into some of the non-stop coverage of Hurricane Matthew, and count how many times climate change is mentioned. I’ll give you a warning: don’t hold your breath. That’s because …
If Reason and Decency Can Happen in Kansas, They Can Happen Anywhere
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is best known to us in the rest of the country as the ultra-right-wing boob who slashed taxes on the rich, only to generate a loss of $688 million in its first year of operation, sending …
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Making Tough Choices Re: Fossil Fuels
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
McKibben: We Can’t Just Win the Argument; Now We Have to Win the Fight
For those of you who aren’t on legendary climate activist Bill McKibben’s mailing list, I thought I’d reprint this masterful and ultra-compelling email I just received from him. There are so many gems here, of which my favorite is: We’re …
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More on a Progressive Energy Policy
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo objects to my recent post on a progressive energy policy for two central reasons: • It would be disastrous economically. He writes, “The fossil fuel industry represents 28% of the US economy….Your plan would immediately lessen confidence …
