About a month ago I took this online survey of my attitudes and beliefs so that a piece of artificial intelligence could suggest the country best suited to my tastes should I be forced to expatriate due to a Trump …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Update on the Safety of Fracking: It’s Not Good News
Those of us who were around in the 1960s remember the revelation that smoking causes cancer—how it mounted slowly year after year, until it became irrefutable. This gradual increase in the evidence was due to the time required to study …
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From Guest Blogger Anica Oaks: Clean and Green–Four Critical Steps for Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
A wide range of scientific studies have shown that fossil fuel extraction, refining and usage causes severe environmental damage, such as ozone depletion, global warming and ocean pollution. Additionally, many of the byproducts of fossil fuel processing, usage and environmental …
Should We Ban Fracking?
Here’s a wonderful, well-balanced discussion on an extremely important subject: placing a ban on fracking. As the author correctly states, natural gas is often used to offset coal, which, as he explains, represents double the greenhouse gas emissions per BTU …
Battle Royale Over California’s Clean Air Standards
It comes as no surprise that California has the strictest clean air legislation in the U.S., culminating in our bill “SB 32” that recently passed the state assembly and is not on its way to the senate. Yet, as one …
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Eviscerating the American Petroleum Institute: John Oliver At His Best
Is there anyone who doesn’t stand in awe of (British political comedian) John Oliver? It’s hard to imagine how a few moments each week could be packed with more hard-hitting truth, all delivered on a sardonic carrier wave that leaves …
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A Few Good Reasons to Short Oil Companies’ Stock
It certainly will be interesting to see how the stock market responds to the situation in which the oil companies will soon find themselves. There are several aspects of this, none of them good for share-holders (though very good for …
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Changes in Power Generation Over the Years
As we’ve all seen during this exciting (?) political season, memes can contain factual/true information, but they can just as easily communicate false or misleading ideas. Here’s one the truth of which is hard to deny. The fossil fuel industry …
The True Gating Factor Limiting the Adoption of Renewable Energy
Our public relations ace Annemarie Osbourne just sent me this brilliant article from the New York Times: How Producing Clean Power Turned Out to Be a Messy Business. This is a terrific piece that offers a great deal of truth of …
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Tagged with: How Producing Clean Power Turned Out to Be a Messy Business, IPPs (independent power producers), long-term environmental damage, lung disease, migration toward renewable energy, New York Times, operators of coal-fired power plants, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, pricing in the externalities associated with the production and consumption of energy
Understanding U.S. Oil Imports
Those interested in “following the money” when it comes to energy and the environment will be interested in this animated global map, which visualizes 20 years of US oil import data (in 20 seconds), collected import data from the US …
