As Bill McKibben notes here, it really hasn’t been a good couple of days for Big Oil. Are investors concerned about the baking of the planet at the hands of the fossil fuel industry, or are they worried about the …
Category: Fossil Fuels
The Long Arm of the Law Is Pursuing Fossil Fuel Companies
Energy consultant and 2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie reports from his home in Buckinghamshire, England (see pic): A rising tide of legal cases, and shareholder action is putting increasing pressure on fossil fuel companies to actively work on reducing their climate …
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Axing Coal, Like Any Other Improvement, Offers a Range of Benefits
From the American Energy Society: Every coal fired power plant in the world has a specific size requirment, and the same is true for all industries that require ore from waste rock as well as metal oxide powders. The process …
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Targeted With Probably the Most Vicious Corporate Counterattack in American History
If you believe in voting with your wallet and your conscience, you’ll want to stay as far as possible from any Chevron gasoline station. None of the Big Oil companies is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Exxon Mobil’s a …
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Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies?
A great deal of the environmental damage that was done during the Trump administration is either already repaired or is in the process of becoming so. Many of these issues took a mere stroke of the pen (or click of …
Coal and Politics in West Virginia
Apparently, Sen. Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) accepted thousands of dollars in donations from a political action committee founded by a fellow Senate Democrat, progressive Jeff Merkley (D-OR), who wants to put “every coal electricity generating plant in a museum,” a …
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In the U.S., a New Day Dawns for Energy and Environmental Responsibility
From Desmog, an organization whose mission is: “Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science.” Finally, as President Joe Biden entered the White House he signed a slew of executive orders on January 20, including rejoining the Paris climate agreement …
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Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Will Remain Pristine
From NPR: One of the Trump administration’s biggest environmental rollbacks suffered a stunning setback Wednesday, as a decades-long push to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with a lease sale that attracted just three bidders — …
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Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
Over the coming 15 years or so, the citizens of Earth will experience great change. From the standpoint of the energy and transportation sectors, that will mean decarbonization, both in our grid-mix and in our automobiles. The years between 2030 …
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Are We Saying Goodbye To the Arctic Wilderness Refuge?
We can all see that Trump is burning the country (and the rest of the world) to the ground as he leaves office, yet his ploy of leasing the Arctic refuge is probably not going to work. That’s because of: …
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