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18/5/2013
Friday is the proverbial "take out the trash day" for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this last Friday was no different.
In that vein, yesterday the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a conditional ...
16/5/2013
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing, on public lands today. The controversial
oil and gas development technique--in which drillers blast millions of ...
16/5/2013
The
Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too burdensome for ...
8/5/2013
The
Obama administration's second attempt at writing regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands is not intended to appease either environmentalists or
oil and gas drillers, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said on ...
8/5/2013
Uber-conservative Beltway newspaper The Washington Examiner has revealed its secret crush on Barack
Obama and his administration`s fracker-friendly ways.
It`s not often that the newspaper says anything nice about the president. The ...
7/5/2013
A letter by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and signed by his counterparts in 12 other energy-producing states tells the EPA it should not allow threats of litigation by six Northeast states to provide a back-door entry for federal ...
6/5/2013
After working 37 years in the coal mines of West Virginia, Ronny Justice punctuates his sentences with coughs. He lost his job a year ago, leaving him without health insurance just as he’s battling the early stages of black-lung ...
2/5/2013
The resource potential of the booming Bakken
Shale oil and gas zone is much bigger than previously thought, U.S. government geologists announced yesterday.
A new assessment of
oil and gas reserves in that region by the U.S. Geological ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
25/4/2013
As President
Obama`s national security adviser Tom Donilon speaks Wednesday at the launch of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, we thought it would be worth highlighting some of his speech`s key points:
1. The U.S. is ...
20/4/2013
The world is going to fry – unless there is change soon. There is weakening political will to make national and international targets for carbon reduction stick, no strong business and financial coalition prepared to lead and a weakening ...
18/4/2013
In the wake of a landmark legal victory against fracking on public lands last week, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club filed a new lawsuit today challenging the
Obama Administration’s auction of an additional 17,000 acres in ...
17/4/2013
The Keystone XL Pipeline would move enough tar sands
oil to result in another 181 million metric tons of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere yearly. A new report prepared by environmental group
Oil Change International (OCI) analyzes what ...
9/4/2013
A federal judge has ruled the
Obama administration broke the law when it issued
oil leases in central California without fully weighing the environmental impact of "fracking," a setback for companies seeking to exploit the region's enormous ...
8/4/2013
Supporters and opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline have recruited former aides to Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack
Obama in dueling efforts to influence the White House.
Alberta -- the source of the
oil sands ...
8/4/2013
Today, a federal judge has ruled that the
Obama Administration violated the law when it issued
oil leases in Monterey County, Calif., without considering the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. The ruling came ...
8/4/2013
It's difficult to find scientists who have not lined up on one side or another on hydraulic fracking for
oil and natural gas. The anti-fracking groups have their scientific talking points, and the pro-fracking groups have their counterclaims. ...
8/4/2013
A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast the “Selma and Stonewall” of the climate ...
8/4/2013
President Barack
Obama's picks to lead energy and environmental policy face scrutiny this week as Senate panels try to tease out details of the administration's agenda, which had been maligned by Republicans and some Democrats during
Obama's ...
4/4/2013
With the controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline extension surfacing yet again - opponents will hold a rally Wednesday night in San Francisco`s Pacific Heights neighborhood, outside a fundraiser President
Obama is headlining--we thought we`d ...
30/3/2013
Last Friday, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a short report outlining various steps on climate change that President Barack
Obama could take during his second term. Facing political gridlock on ...
26/3/2013
Environmentalists and others here are reacting with concern to a surprise announcement on Monday of a major deal that would see U.S. natural gas exported to the United Kingdom, marking the first time that such sales have been ...
23/3/2013
The theory was straightforward and seemed to hold with common sense: One day soon, the Earth would hit its halfway point of global
oil production -- its "peak" -- and thereafter, it would see a steady decline. Those behind the concept called it ...
23/3/2013
President
Obama’s outside team of scientific advisers is recommending the creation of carbon emissions standards for existing pollution sources and continued expansion of
shale gas production in order to confront global warming.
Those ...
21/3/2013
Peter Voser, chief executive of the global energy company Royal Dutch Shell, said Thursday that the United States and the world need to increase the use of solar panels, wind turbines, and other renewable energy-generating sources to meet the ...