Oil Industry Profited Off Polluting Oil Spills, Fraud Investigation Underway
Feb 14, 2014, 2:00 pm By Farron Cousins
When an oil company’s negligence leads to an oil spill, the financial costs incurred by the…Why Nothing Is Being Done to Improve Oil by Rail Safety
Feb 14, 2014, 8:00 am By Justin Mikulka
Since the oil train explosion in Lac-Megantic in July of 2013, we have learned that there are some…Polluter Harmony Video Spoofs Duke Energy and ALEC
Feb 13, 2014, 10:21 pm By Brendan DeMelle
Greenpeace USA's Polluter Harmony project released another great spoof video this week as part of it…Australia Appoints Climate Science Denier As Top New York Official
Feb 13, 2014, 8:23 pm By Graham Readfearn
ONE block east of Grand Central station, in a skyscraper on 42nd St, is the office of Australia’s…Maryland At High Risk of Water Contamination From Fracking, Independent Assessment Finds
Feb 13, 2014, 7:27 pm By Caroline Selle
An independent assessment commissioned by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Citizen Shale,…St. Louis Judge Cites Citizens United to Protect Tax Breaks for Peabody Energy
Feb 13, 2014, 1:56 pm By Ben Jervey
With the quick stroke of a pen, a circuit court judge in St. Louis has singlehandedly silenced more…The NSA and Climate Change Spying: What We Know So Far
Feb 12, 2014, 3:04 pm By Guest
This is a guest post by Joshua Eaton. The carbon footprint for the new data center the National…Documents Reveal Calvert County Signed Non-Disclosure Agreement with Company Proposing Cove Point LNG Terminal
Feb 12, 2014, 8:00 am By Steve Horn
Co-authored by Steve Horn and Caroline Selle DeSmogBlog has obtained documents revealing that the…Colorado Communities Battle to Ban Fracking
Feb 11, 2014, 8:28 pm By Anne Landman
Citizens in cities on Colorado's front range are pushing back against the fracking boom by passing…Disastrous Day in Fossil Fuels: WV coal slurry spill, PA gas well explosion, ND gas explosion
Feb 11, 2014, 4:01 pm By Mike G
West Virginia officials are reporting that, a coal slurry line at the Kanawha Eagle Prep Plant,…Business Coalition Announces Massive Offensive Against Environmental Protections
Feb 10, 2014, 2:41 pm By Farron Cousins
As the Obama administration begins to take action to rein in the emissions from the dirty energy…Harvard and Brown Are Wrong To Reject Calls To Divest From Fossil Fuels
Feb 9, 2014, 9:00 am By Guest
This article was originally published in the February 17th issue of The Nation and is republished…Colorado Senate Passes Split Estate Disclosure Bill on Unanimous Vote
1:47pm By Anne Landman
A bill requiring disclosure of a possible split estate condition upon the sale of residential…GAO Hiding Crucial Documents from the Public While Calling for More Transparency in BLM Coal Leases
Fri 3:21pm By Ben Jervey
On Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office released a much-anticipated report about the Bureau…Coal Industry Report On Social Cost Of Carbon Relies On Climate Science Denial
Feb 6, 2014, 10:34 pm By Graham Readfearn
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) seems a confusing and confused…Tom Steyer to Secretary of State Kerry: New Review Necessary of "Defective" Keystone XL Environmental Assessment
Feb 6, 2014, 2:00 pm By Ben Jervey
With the State Department’s release of the final Keystone XL environmental review, attention is…In Pavillion, Wyoming Water Contamination Case, Questions Continue To Swirl About Oil and Gas Industry's Role
Feb 6, 2014, 11:58 am By Sharon Kelly
A funny thing happened when Idaho Dept. of Lands Oil and Gas Program Manager Robert Johnson stepped…Keystone XL's Northern Leg: A Fracked Oil Pipeline Along with Tar Sands
Feb 5, 2014, 1:00 pm By Steve Horn
On January 31, President Barack Obama's U.S. State Department released its Final Environmental…At State and Federal Level, Regulators Continue to Struggle With Fracking Wastewater
Feb 5, 2014, 8:00 am By Sharon Kelly
The oil and gas industry often complains about the patchwork of rules that exist from state to state…Risks of Fracking Boom Draw Renewed Attention from Investors
Feb 4, 2014, 11:29 pm By Sharon Kelly
A coalition of investors called out five oil and gas companies for failing to measure or reduce…
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