Revealed: Emails Show ND Ethics Law Potentially Broken on Petraeus Fracking Trip
DeSmogBlog has obtained emails via North Dakota’s Open Records Statute revealing facts that could be interpreted as indicating that North Dakota Treasurer Kelly Schmidt broke State Investment Board ethics laws. The potential legal breach occurred during a late-April fracking field trip made to the state by former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus. In a radio interview responding to DeSmogBlog’s original investigation […]
"Fracking Pennsylvania": New Book Recounts History of the Northeast's Shale Rush
Walter Brasch begins his new book, Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster, by explaining in the introduction that he never intended to write an anti-fracking book. “But,” he writes “as I accumulated mounds of evidence, I realized that fracking, even under the best of conditions, is a problem.” There is no question that Brasch, a former journalism […]
Years of Living Dangerously Concludes with Obama Slamming Climate Deniers
This is a guest post by Brandon Baker, originally published on EcoWatch. You’re not the only one who gets frustrated when John Boehner, Marco Rubio and others in Congress turn a blind eye to devastating, scientific evidence regarding climate change. In an interview with Thomas L. Friedman scheduled to air tonight as part of the final episode of Years of Living Dangerously, President Barack […]
My New Favorite Book: The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change was released this week by Island Press and I highly recommend you check it out. It’s not only a fun read to educate yourself or your crazy uncle about climate science basics, it’s also full of practical information presented in simple but elegant illustrations and comic strips. Written by Yoram […]
Study Dismisses Geoengineering Quick Fix For Global Warming
Politicians should not look to science and engineering for a relatively quick fix to effectively deal with climate change caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions, a new academic study has determined. The only solution to global warming is a massive rejection of toxic fossil fuels, vastly improved energy efficiency and substantially altered human behavior, found the […]
TransCanada Cries Foul Over New Keystone XL Security Risk Analysis
It doesn’t take much to hurt the dirty energy industry’s feelings. Less than a day after NextGen Climate released a report detailing the vulnerabilities of the Keystone XL pipeline to a terrorist attack, the company fired back at the group claiming that they were being singled out. The report was commissioned by NextGen Climate and produced […]
California State Senators Who Voted Against Fracking Moratorium Took 370% More From Oil Industry
Even though a sizable majority of Californians favor a moratorium on fracking until its impacts on the environment and human health are better understood, California’s fracking moratorium bill, SB 1132, died in the state Senate last week, voted down for the final time on Friday evening. Four Democrats joined all 12 Republicans in voting nay on […]
Navy SEAL Commander Behind Bin Laden Killing: Keystone XL Vulnerable To Terrorism
Dave Cooper, Command Master Chief SEAL (Retired) for the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), has authored a threat assessment concluding TransCanada‘s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is potentially at-risk of a terrorism attack. In the report, Cooper concluded operational security vulnerabilities for the pipeline have been overlooked by the U.S. government. Cooper — most famous for […]
Obama’s New Climate Regulations Could Bring More U.S. Coal to B.C. for Export
A new U.S. proposal to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants could result in more thermal coal being shipped to Asia through existing and planned port facilities in Metro Vancouver, people attending Port Metro Vancouver’s annual general meeting were told Tuesday. “[President Barack] Obama’s administration is changing the game,” Steven Faraher-Amidon said during […]
US Chamber Predicts Economic Apocalypse From New Carbon Rules Despite Opposite Reality
It has been less than a week since the EPA announced new rules for carbon emissions — rules that are being heralded as the most comprehensive effort to tackle climate change by any sitting U.S. president — but big business groups have been spreading misinformation about these new rules for weeks. Leading the charge against the […]