A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.
Read more...A clinical look at the Administration’s disingenuous Iran spin.
Read more...Accounts emerging from workers and others on site paint a troubling picture of how close to disaster Philadelphia may have come.
Read more...Iran and the US look deadlocked.
Read more...As they so often do, by promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution.
Read more...“Excluding capital, the big eight basin producers have destroyed on average 80 percent of the value of their companies since the beginning of the shale revolution,”
Read more...The plunge in oil prices since August has caused the oil-and-gas sector to get skittish with capital expenditures this year, and Powell picked up on that. Investment in the US shale sector has a big impact on the real economy.
Read more...Climate-change-induced migration is significant and set to grow. But no one seems to have any answers, save perhaps the neoliberal default, “Die sooner”.
Read more...California is overdoing on solar power, and that isn’t as good an idea as you might think.
Read more...Trump administration soon to allow massive trains to transport LNG in unit trains 100 cars long and for the express purpose of moving LNG to export facilities – with scant regard for safety consequences.
Read more...New York state judge allows climate fraud lawsuit brought under the Martin Act to proceed, rejecting defendant Exxon’s claims for dismissal.
Read more...IEA’s annual market report predicts continued growth in demand for natural gas; Justin Mikulka discusses report Oil Change International debunking contention that natural gas can serve as a bridge fuel to a cleaner energy future.
Read more...Interior administration official promises to offer fossil fuel leases for sale in 2019 to allow drilling in previously pristine Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to commence.
Read more...Is Iran in the midst of a “strategic surge”?
Read more...New CIEL study documents how plastic proliferation threatens the climate on a global scale.
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