Ohio Clean Energy Still in Koch & ALEC Crosshairs

Crossposted from Greenpeace’s blog: The Witness. Ohio is currently fighting this year’s final battle in a nationally-coordinated attack on clean energy standard laws, implemented by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other groups belonging to the secretive corporate front group umbrella known as the State Policy Network (SPN). ALEC and SPN members like the […]

US State Department Considers Rail Transport of Crude in Keystone XL Decision

A decision on the proposed northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline – under review since 2008 – hinges on a final environmental review by the State Department now taking into consideration the importance oil-by-rail transport might have on growth of Alberta’s tar sands. US officials are evaluating the impact Keystone XL will have on expansion […]

Climate Policy Already Headlining 2014 Midterm Elections

The U.S. may still be more than a year out from the 2014 midterm elections, but Republicans in Congress are already making the Obama administration’s climate policies a key issue for voters. Republican Representative Ed Whitfield from Kentucky announced this week that he intends to make the President’s climate change policies, specifically stricter standards on coal-fired […]

Chevron’s Scorched Earth Strategy To Derail Justice for Its Victims

From Richmond, CA to Ecuador to Romania, communities impacted by oil giant Chevron’s operations are rising up to demand justice. Chevron’s response in each case has been consistently irresponsible: Deny any wrongdoing, cover up the extent of corporate malfeasance and environmental contamination, and go on the offensive against anyone demanding the company take responsibility for […]

Harper Government's $16.5 Million Canadian Energy Ad Campaign Gets Underwhelming Response in US

It seems that the start of the Harper Government’s $16.5 million advertising campaign to push the US to turn to Canadian energy, specifically by supporting the Keystone XL pipeline and tar sands oil production, isn’t quite having the impact that the Conservatives were hoping for. Lee-Anne Goodman writes for the Canadian Press, that “efforts by […]

Koch Brothers' Tar Sands Waste Petcoke Piles Spread to Chicago

After using Detroit as a toxic waste dumping ground, the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers are now piling their petroleum coke from tar sands oil refineries in Chicago. Kiley Kroh of ThinkProgress writes that petroleum coke, or petcoke, “is building up along Chicago’s Calumet River and alarming residents.” The Chicago petcoke piles are owned by KCBX, an […]

US Chamber President Tom Donohue Pushes Deceitful Dirty Energy Talking Points

Tom Donohue, the president of the massive business lobbying group the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is once again doing the bidding of the dirty energy industry by claiming that America is on the verge of complete “energy security.” On the pages of the U.S. Chamber’s Free Enterprise website, Donohue claimed that America has become an […]

Documents Raise Important Questions About Tesoro's Pipeline Spill in North Dakota

This is a guest post by Jesse Coleman, cross-posted with permission from Greenpeace blog The Witness. North Dakota, long known for its cattle ranches and open spaces, has recently become one of the oil and gas industry’s most prized (and profitable) possessions, thanks to the advent of fracking. However, the price of oil and gas industry development is […]

Carbon Billionaire Kochs Will Profit Plenty on Keystone XL, Counters IFG

This is a guest post by Victor Menotti, Executive Director of the International Forum on Globalization. Charles and David Kochs’ communications crisis team from the Center for American Freedom (CAF), along with Tim Worstall writing in Forbes, are countering International Forum on Globalization’s (IFG) recent report, “Billionaires’ Carbon Bomb: The Koch Brothers and the Keystone XL […]

Gulf Shrimper Dean Blanchard of Grand Isle Sets the Record Straight About BP's Failed Cleanup

The second phase of hearings in the legal battle over the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico ended on October 17th. Following two weeks of testimony by the U.S. Department of Justice and BP, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier will determine what quantity of oil was spilled into the Gulf. He will also decide whether […]