Dirty Energy Subsidies Still 5x More Than Pledged Climate Aid, Activists Ask #WTF?
Oil Change International released a briefing paper today at COP19 in Warsaw revealing that subsidies lavished on the fossil fuel industry by wealthy industrialized nations add up to more than five times the amount of climate finance aid the same countries have so far pledged to deliver to poorer nationsย to reduce their global warming emissions […]
Fracking Lobby ANGA's Tax Forms: Big Bucks to Media Outlets, "Other ALECs"
America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) – the public relations arm of the oil and gasย fracking industry – has released its 2012 Internal Revenue Services (IRS) 990 form, and it’s rich with eye-opening revelations, some of which we report here for the firstย time.ย Incorporated as American Natural Gas Alliance, Inc., ANGA received $76.7 million from its […]
Climate Denial Group CFACT Congratulates Australia During Warsaw Talks
AUSTRALIA finally has a vocal cheerleader at the COP19 United Nations climate talks currently taking place in Warsaw – a climate denial activist think tank which rejects the science of human-caused climateย change. The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT, a fossil fuel-funded group which denies that emissions from burning fossil fuels cause climate change, […]
Canadians Losing Confidence in Governments on Climate Says New Poll
Canadians areย losing confidence that governments will take the lead in battling climate change, all the while becoming more certain that humans are behind global warming, according to a new pollย by the Environics Institute, in partnership with the David Suzukiย Foundation. The belief that governments will take a lead role battling changes has dropped to 53 percent […]
George W. Bush on Keystone XL: "Build the Damn Thing"
Make private companies happy. Donโt worry about the environment. Stop fretting about long-term sustainability. Forget renewables, property concerns, the safety of our water and air. Make private companies happy. This was the 43rd president’s message to the current administration at the DUG East conference held by the shale gas industry on Thursday. With characteristic bluntness, […]
International Coal and Climate Summit Hears Tough Love from UNFCCC Head As Protests Highlight Poland's Coal Addiction
The second week of the COP19 UN climate change conference in Warsaw kicked off today with a focus on the continuing obstruction of the bad actors in the process – Japan, Australia and Canada – as well as the head-scratching decision by the Polish government to co-host a โclean coalโ conference just down the street […]
International Coal Summit's Glorious Pipe Dream of Carbon Capture and Storage
A new study released today at the UN climate conference underway in Warsaw, Poland finds that new coal plants cannot be built if we are to keep global warming below the 2ยฐ Celsiusย threshold. That is, unless the coal industry can deploy commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS).ย The report, titled: New unabated coal is not […]
U.S. House Prepares Early Christmas Gift To Natural Gas Industry
The holiday season has officially kicked off for consumers, with massive sales and discounts being advertised in all forms of media.ย But the U.S. House of Representatives doesnโt have to fight the crowds to find the perfect gift for the dirty energy industry โ they believe that the best gift is the one you makeย yourself. […]
Hospital Hosting Coal Event Requests Restraining Order Against Local Activists
A West Virginia hospital made a very unique request earlier this week. Authorities at St. Maryโs Medical Center asked a local judge for a restraining order against the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC), which had announced plans to protest outside of a coal-boosting event at the hospital onย Tuesday.ย Janet Keating, OVEC‘s executive director, explained that […]
Rallies Coast to Coast in Canada Today to Defend Our Climate
Today across Canada, thousands of everyday people are showing up at events to tell our government leaders that they must listen to the people who elected them and lead on the issue of climateย change. Defend Our Climate, Defend our Communityย rallies kicked off in Atlantic Canada and now a wave of rallies โ more than 180 […]
