Study Reveals 30 Toxic Chemicals at High Levels at Exxon Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Spill Site
An independent study co-published by the Faulkner County Citizens Advisory Group andย Global Community Monitor reveals that, in the aftermath of ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline spillย of over 500,000 gallons of diluted bitumen (dilbit) into Mayflower, AR, air qualityย in the area surrounding the spill has been affected by high levels of cancer-causingย chemicals. Roughly four weeks after […]
Faster Drilling, Diminishing Returns in Shale Plays Nationwide?
Today’s shale gas boom has brought a surge of drilling across the US, driving natural gas prices to historic lows over the past couple of years. But, according to David Hughes, geoscientist and fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, in the future, we can expect at least the same frenzied rate of drilling โ but […]
Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume 1979-2012
If your roof is leaking, do you ignore it and hope it will fix itself?ย This new animation created by Andy Lee Robinsonย depicts Arctic Sea Ice minimum volumes reached every September since 1979.ย It’s a depressing sight, for sure. Andy makes it a little less difficult to view with his own piano sountrack, a composition called […]
UFOs, Sea Level Rise And The Magnetism Of Climate Science Denial
IF there was a prize for the most esoteric and stratospherically โout thereโ theory against human caused climate change, then surely Thomas Watson would be in line for this particularย gong. In an interview in January for the US-based internet radio show โIt’s Rainmaking Timeโ, this 83-year-old Australian from Victoria told presenter Kim Greenhouse that carbon […]
Coal Exports: An Update On Pacific Northwest Coal Fights
This is a guest post by Josephine Ferorelli, originally published at Occupy.com. There is not enough room in the national headlines for all the battles between fossil fuel expansion projects and climate activists occurring right now. But the Keystone XL proposalโs public comment period ends on April 22nd, so we can shift our focus to […]
Fracking Our National Parks: America's Best Idea Threatened By Oil and Gas Addiction
Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave. Elkhorn Ranch, where the great Republican conservationist sat on his porch overlooking the Little Missouri River and conceived his then-progressive theories of conservation, is at risk of being despoiled by fracking.ย Now sitting in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, youโd assume that Roosevelt’s โhome ranchโ (as he […]
Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again)
Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox ‘conspiracy’ is that ‘liberals’ stopped calling it global warming and started calling it climate change. Little did they realize, apparently, that the man responsible for the partisan polarization over […]
President Obama Slams Climate Deniers on Twitter
You don’t see this every day. President Barack Obama used Twitter today to call out climate deniers in Congress who are blocking political action to address climate change.ย The tweet links to this video released by Organizing for Action, the 501(c)(4) campaign group that promotes the President’s nationalย agenda.ย
Breaking: Enbridge Pipeline Spills in Minnesota (Updates original)
Enbridge’s Line 2 **Line 67 tar sands**ย pipeline has leaked an estimated 600 gallonsย of crude oil at its pump station near Viking, Minnesota. Line 2 was built in 1956 and has a history of spills. Regulators ordered Enbridge to reduce its Line 2 operating pressure in October 2010 following the company’s Kalamazoo River tar sands spill.ย […]
The Carbon Bubble: Are We Exploring for Fossil Fuels We Won't Need?
Despite an international agreement to reduce emissions from carbon-intensive sources, oil and coal companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars a year into finding new fossil fuel deposits containing enough carbon to more than double global climate pollution emissions.ย ย This is the conclusion of a new report finding that $674 billion was spent […]