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uk/Analysis: Fuel Duty Freeze Set to Continue Thanks to Sustained Media Campaign
By Rich Collett-White
onMar 2, 2021 @ 22:00 PST
If the Budget means one thing above all else for the road transport lobby, it’s fuel duty. And recent years have shown it knows exactly which pressure points to push to get its way, with the sector...
Analysis: How Exxon Is Being Forced To Accept The Reality Of Bad Fossil Fuel Investments
By Justin Mikulka
onFeb 26, 2021 @ 16:00 PST
Last August, ExxonMobil warned that it may need to remove 20 percent of its oil and gas proved reserves from its books. While that was a shocking number from the oil major, reality proved to be eve...
us/From Capture to Culture: Aquaculture in the US
By Ian Urbina
onFeb 24, 2021 @ 13:38 PST
As the Biden administration turns to environmental concerns, one of its top priorities will be how to better protect the world’s oceans. With more than 80 percent of the world’s fish stocks at or n...
us/Why the US Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord Matters at Home and Abroad — 5 Scholars Explain
By Guest
onFeb 20, 2021 @ 00:01 PST
By Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines
Analysis: How the Agribusiness Lobby Mobilised Against a UK Carbon Tax
By Phoebe Cooke
onFeb 5, 2021 @ 05:42 PST
“Hands off our sausages.” A war on bacon has been waged, apparently. According to The Sun, the nation’s bangers are at risk from a “barmy” meat tax. “Tax raid on your lifestyle!” warned The Mail. ...
us/How U.S. Crude Oil Exports Are Hastening the Demise of the Oil Industry
By Justin Mikulka
onJan 28, 2021 @ 12:03 PST
When Congress lifted the export ban on U.S. crude oil in December of 2015 to allow for exports beginning in 2016, the oil industry celebrated. However, looking back at the impact of lifting the 40-...
A Shell hydrogen fueling station
Decoding the Hype Behind the Natural Gas Industry’s Hydrogen Push
By Justin Mikulka
onJan 14, 2021 @ 06:12 PST
DeSmog takes a critical look at the burgeoning new fuel — and debunks some of the myths surrounding it.
DeSmog takes a critical look at the burgeoning new fuel — and debunks some of the myths surrounding it.
us/Another Bomb Train Accident Highlights Regulatory Failures
By Justin Mikulka
onDec 23, 2020 @ 15:03 PST
A train carrying over 100 cars of volatile Bakken oil derailed in Washington state, causing the evacuation of the town of Custer. At least two of the train cars ruptured and the oil ignited and bur...
us/How The Fracking Revolution Is Killing the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
By Justin Mikulka
onDec 22, 2020 @ 07:26 PST
After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S. fracking miracle, the U.S. oil and gas industry is having to deal with years of losses and falling asset values which has dealt the industry a serious fin...
us/This Loophole in New Mexico's Methane Rules Is a Gift to Big Oil and Gas
By Justin Mikulka
onDec 4, 2020 @ 13:41 PST
In October, New Mexico announced new rules that propose slashing the massive volumes of methane which the oil and gas industry is releasing into the atmosphere. However, the proposed regulations co...

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Analysis
uk/Analysis: Fuel Duty Freeze Set to Continue Thanks to Sustained Media Campaign
ByRich Collett-White
onMar 2, 2021 @ 22:00 PST

If the Budget means one thing above all else for the road transport lobby, it’s fuel duty. And recent years have shown it knows exactly which pressure points to push to get its way, with the sector...
Analysis
Analysis: How Exxon Is Being Forced To Accept The Reality Of Bad Fossil Fuel Investments
ByJustin Mikulka
onFeb 26, 2021 @ 16:00 PST

Last August, ExxonMobil warned that it may need to remove 20 percent of its oil and gas proved reserves from its books. While that was a shocking number from the oil major, reality proved to be eve...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
Analysis
us/From Capture to Culture: Aquaculture in the US
ByIan Urbina
onFeb 24, 2021 @ 13:38 PST

As the Biden administration turns to environmental concerns, one of its top priorities will be how to better protect the world’s oceans. With more than 80 percent of the world’s fish stocks at or n...
Analysis
us/Why the US Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord Matters at Home and Abroad — 5 Scholars Explain
ByGuest
onFeb 20, 2021 @ 00:01 PST

By Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines
Analysis
Analysis: How the Agribusiness Lobby Mobilised Against a UK Carbon Tax
ByPhoebe Cooke
onFeb 5, 2021 @ 05:42 PST

“Hands off our sausages.” A war on bacon has been waged, apparently. According to The Sun, the nation’s bangers are at risk from a “barmy” meat tax. “Tax raid on your lifestyle!” warned The Mail. ...
Analysis
us/How U.S. Crude Oil Exports Are Hastening the Demise of the Oil Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
onJan 28, 2021 @ 12:03 PST

When Congress lifted the export ban on U.S. crude oil in December of 2015 to allow for exports beginning in 2016, the oil industry celebrated. However, looking back at the impact of lifting the 40-...
Analysis
Decoding the Hype Behind the Natural Gas Industry’s Hydrogen Push
ByJustin Mikulka
onJan 14, 2021 @ 06:12 PST

DeSmog takes a critical look at the burgeoning new fuel — and debunks some of the myths surrounding it.

DeSmog takes a critical look at the burgeoning new fuel — and debunks some of the myths surrounding it.
Series: Mapping the Hydrogen Lobby
Series: The Hydrogen Lobby
A Shell hydrogen fueling station
Analysis
us/Another Bomb Train Accident Highlights Regulatory Failures
ByJustin Mikulka
onDec 23, 2020 @ 15:03 PST

A train carrying over 100 cars of volatile Bakken oil derailed in Washington state, causing the evacuation of the town of Custer. At least two of the train cars ruptured and the oil ignited and bur...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
Analysis
us/How The Fracking Revolution Is Killing the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
onDec 22, 2020 @ 07:26 PST

After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S. fracking miracle, the U.S. oil and gas industry is having to deal with years of losses and falling asset values which has dealt the industry a serious fin...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
Analysis
us/This Loophole in New Mexico's Methane Rules Is a Gift to Big Oil and Gas
ByJustin Mikulka
onDec 4, 2020 @ 13:41 PST

In October, New Mexico announced new rules that propose slashing the massive volumes of methane which the oil and gas industry is releasing into the atmosphere. However, the proposed regulations co...

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