On my post on the Sierra Club and Chevron, a long-time reader who happens to be a biofuels expert writes: I do not want to read political opinion so I and others will unsubscribe. I respond: I’ll be quite sorry …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Heartland Institute Is Always On the Attack
It’s been a while since I wrote something on the brazen evil represented by the Koch-funded Heartland Institute, so I thought it might be time to rectify that. Linked below is an article that will make your skin crawl.
Opening Up Colorado Wilderness to Coal Mining
The Center for Biological Diversity writes: We don’t get it: The Obama administration says it wants to fight climate change, but it keeps opening our public lands to more brutal fossil fuel extraction.
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Processing Tar Sands Crude
Question: Is the practice of turning crude from tar sands into gasoline more environmentally destructive than the processing of conventional crude? If so, how many times more damaging is it? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
There Are Limits To Technology’s Ability To Reduce Waste; Let’s Hope They Aren’t Fatal
Of all the defining characteristics of modernity, perhaps this is the most important: how far technology has taken us, and how little waste remains in many of the actions we see performed each day in the world around us. Those …
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Reducing the Number of Fiery Crashes from Derailed Trains Transporting Oil Is…a Debatable/Partisan Issue?
I’m always amused by articles that start the way this one does: “A group of Democratic senators wants to improve the safety of transporting oil by rail in the United States, following a series of high-profile derailments that led to …
Keystone Pipeline Myopia
Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty makes this point regarding the Keystone Pipeline: We won’t have one drop of oil less being sold in the global market because the Keystone was rejected… we’ll just have a lot more oil in the …
The Validity of the Keystone Pipeline Environmentally
Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty remarks that rejecting the Keystone pipeline is a net negative for the environment: The percentage of transported oil that is spilled when transported by train is hundreds-fold that when it is transported by pipeline. By …
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Chinese People Calling for an End to the Extreme Levels of Air Pollution that Are Cutting Their Lives Short
China’s people are learning the truth about the air pollution that’s causing a huge number of them, estimated to be over one million, every year to drop dead from lung disease. They’ve been unhappy about this for many years, but …
Oil Companies Are Placing Big Bets–With Your Money
My friend Cameron Atwood offers a fabulously rational approach to climate change mitigation as a comment to my post: Understanding the Ties Between Corporate Funding and the Findings of Climate Scientists (scroll down to see it). Thanks, Cameron. That makes …
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