Human beings face the choice whether to preserve parts of our present civilization or create elements of a new one or alternatively, head towards self-extinction.
Read more...How Seneca Lake in upstate New York became a key battleground in the fight over fracking.
Read more...The military has a keen interest in reducing its dependence on conventional fuel sources for transportation and the spending heft to speed development.
Read more...An economics professor rails against Pope Francis for daring to point out that we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds.
Read more...How climate change denialists have opened up a new front in their attacks on climate science.
Read more...Hoexter examines the disconnect between the preferred methods of climate activists versus the magnitude and urgency of the issues they are trying to address. His analysis echoes an important 2012 post by Richard Kline, Progressively Losing.
Read more...Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as well.
Read more...The climate/political nexus behind the latest California oil spill.
Read more...One of the common rhetorical tropes supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have used to sell it is to declaim all prior trade agreements as inferior, relative to this bright, shiny and new deal. Ron Wyden, the Democrat in Congress most responsible for moving TPP through, gave a particularly juicy example of this yesterday.
Read more...I suspect readers will draw suitably concerned environmental conclusions from this forecast, that the oil era has at least another 30 years to run.
Read more...Why sustainability has failed and “resilience” is replacing it.
Read more...Just a week after having sent a Statement of Objections (SO) in the frame of the antitrust case against Google, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager sent yesterday an SO in the frame of the case against Gazprom. The decision to send a charge sheet against the Russian gas company came after almost three years of investigations, which have also seen EU antitrust officials raiding Gazprom offices in central and eastern European countries.
Read more...The Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources has improperly permitted as many as 2,500 injection wells in groundwater aquifers.
Read more...Who believes the Gulf of Maine is warming, and reasons to believe that it is.
Read more...Despite widespread environmental concerns and community opposition, in large swathes of the US, the fracking industrial complex has seemed unstoppable. That may finally be changing.
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