News broke recently that the 37 House votes to repeal Obamacare cost taxpayers $55 million . The House has voted for Keystone XL eight times, and Oil Change International says the House members who voted for it took six times as much money from the oil industry as their colleagues who...
Despite several studies suggesting toxic emissions from refineries are underestimated, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continually failed to review and revise emissions factors for health and life-threatening pollutants. Now, five environmental justice groups are suing the a...
Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska show that TransCanada - owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline - has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska , labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for "terrorism" charges and other ser...
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that trade deals can be exempted from federal disclosure laws. The case revolved around a classified document related to an FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) that contained information about environme...
This is a perfect example proving the games won. Industry, government, academia, media, NGOs can declare victory over traditional environmental protection methods. Not only will O&G use government land, they'll also get cheap labor. At a deep discount, O&G will pickup the salary for a...
This is last installment of a three-part series on greenwashing and the tar sands. Be sure to read Part 1, A Short History of Greenwashing the Tar Sands , and Part 2, Do As I Say, Not As I Do . Recently, Canadian Oil Sands Chief Executive Officer Marcel Coutu explained to Bloomberg wh...
Mr. Blankenship initially brought in fleets of lawyers hoping to squash the case. But these two lawyers (and their client Hugh Caperton) refused to give up and eventually convinced a West Virginia jury to award their client over $50 million. Mr. Blankenship was so incensed that he spe...
For the past two years, the U.S. Attorney in West Virginia, R. Booth Goodwin II, has been systematically working his way up Massey’s hierarchy, arguing that beyond the managers who supervised that mine, there was a broader conspiracy led by still unnamed "directors, officers, and agen...
John Cook has provided DeSmogBlog with data from his study showing the state of the peer-reviewed science for the years when the campaigns were being plotted. This analysis shows that in fact, in 2008 when Heartland began its conferences, hardly any scientists in the peer-reviewed lit...
'Just as important, the scientific consensus is not as strong as the popular one . The state of scientific knowledge is less certain than the media and others often suggest. ... Climate science is extremely complex for three reasons, ... First, it is an immature science.... Second, cl...
Google, the search giant with the famous motto: “Don’t be evil,” is boasting about its involvement in a 2012 coal industry lobbying effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to protect the public from dangerous and potentially lethal coal plant emissions, acc...
He called he assured me he was doing an unbiased documentary both sides of the issues. I think it is significant because it goes to his lying, his manipulation of the truth, and misrepresentation of his agenda. I never would have let him in my home if I knew what his agenda was. Later...
If an ecologically hazardous accident happens to TransCanada's Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline, we can't say we weren't forewarned. That's the latest from a press release and YouTube video recently disseminated by the good government group, Public Citizen . Public Citizen 's Texa...
If an ecologically hazardous accident happens to TransCanada's Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline, we can't say we weren't forewarned. That's the latest from a press release and YouTube video recently disseminated by the good government group, Public Citizen . Public Citizen 's Texa...
This January, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced that it would undertake a “comprehensive” study of radiation from oil and gas development in the state, home to the most actively drilled parts of the Marcellus shale. At the same time, the agency re-publi...
response to the proposed 2009 federal climate legislation and in the run-up to the 2009 Copenhagen United Nations international climate summit, McAleer and McElhinney released the film, "Not Evil, Just Wrong ." Akin to "FrackNation" with "Gasland 2" director Josh Fox, the film spends ...
"They certainly did a good imitation for people who apparently had no idea and I say that jokingly because I honestly don't think anybody in that room knew what was going on when we first started the conversation," she continued. "I mean, IOGA is there to promote its interests, but I ...
The Checks and Balances Project has announced that the U.S. State Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has launched a conflicts-of-interest investigation into dirty dealings pertaining to the contractor tasked to perform the environmental review for the northern half of Tran...
The Checks and Balances Project has announced that the U.S. State Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has launched a conflicts-of-interest investigation into dirty dealings pertaining to the contractor tasked to perform the environmental review for the northern half of Tran...
How did you independently check your results? Nobody is more qualified to judge a paper’s intent than the actual scientists who authored the paper. To provide an independent measure of the level of consensus, we asked the scientists who authored the climate papers to rate the level of...
The townspeople in Fort Collins were greeted with some unfortunate news earlier this week, as their city council decided to overturn a ban on hydraulic fracturing that had been in place for only a few short months. The decision to overturn the ban was based solely on the threat of a l...
This is a guest post by Caroline Selle Much of the debate around the Keystone XL pipeline has focused on the dangers of extracting and transporting the tar sands. Left out, however, are those in the United States who are guaranteed to feel the impacts of increased tar sands usage. Spi...
When the chief of Arkansas Hazardous Waste division called Exxon out on this falsehood , Exxon amended the press release. However, they did not amend it to say that oil was in Lake Conway and contaminant levels in the lake were rising to dangerous levels , as they knew to be the case....
On May 16, the Obama Interior Department announced its long-awaited rules governing hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on federal lands. As part of its 171-page document of rules , the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), part of the U.S. Dept. of Interior (DOI), revealed it will adop...
A 4-post series can only scratch the surface of misbehavior, so readers may expect a much more detailed report later, of which a few completed sections will be attached. Some people create FOIA fishing expeditions to harass climate scientists, but careful FOIAs can be used as original...
Friday is the proverbial "take out the trash day" for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this Friday was no different. In that vein, yesterday the Obama Department of Energy (DOE) announced a conditional approval of the second-ever LNG (liquefied natural ...
Shipping via LNG, invites domestic gas (shale or other) to the world market and commodity exchanges (i.e.. London). The domestic price will go up allowing for an increase in development and delivery (capital) investment. Those investing will become happy and promote shale gas as an un...
Based on our abstract ratings, we found that just over 4,000 papers expressed a position on the cause of global warming, 97.1% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. In the self-ratings, nearly 1,400 papers were rated as taking a position, 97.2% of which endorsed human-caused ...
There are few better examples of a "sacrifice zone " for ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry at-large than Faulkner County, Arkansas and the counties surrounding it. Six weeks have passed since a 22-foot gash in ExxonMobil's Pegasus tar sands Pipeline spilled over 500,000 gallons ...
As the public anxiously awaits the U.S. State Department’s final decision on the fate of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the discussion has largely ignored the elephant in the room: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA.) Thanks to NAFTA, signed into law by President Bill Clinton i...
