Tag: oil and gas drilling
GOP advances sweeping plan to fast-track drilling, mining, and logging on...
A new Republican bill would open millions of acres of protected land to fossil fuel and timber companies while gutting environmental review processes, in a bid to help fund massive tax cuts.
Chaco Canyon’s future: a pledge for environmental justice and tribal rights
Amid environmental concerns and cultural significance, the Honoring Chaco Initiative aims to transform the Greater Chaco Landscape, but real progress remains in limbo.
US auctions giant stretch of Gulf of Mexico for oil and...
Coming on the heels of the Willow decision, this certainly feels like another step backwards in the fight against climate change, which this administration has said is an existential threat.”
Biden Admin’s first onshore oil and gas lease Sales set to...
“We are concerned about the reduction in available parcels, we’re concerned about royalty rate increases, we’re concerned that the administration’s approach … is limited at a time when we really need something bold.”
‘Massive’ methane leaks found coming from oil and gas sites in...
It is at these sites—storage tanks, pipelines, liquefied natural gas import terminals—where methane is leaking in large volumes.
Oil field operations likely triggered earthquakes in California a few miles...
The seismic safety of oil and gas operations may be increased by selecting geologic formations that are disconnected from deep faults.
‘Incredibly reckless’: Trump moves to expand fossil fuel drilling in Alaska’s...
"Opening more of the Arctic to drilling and fracking is incredibly reckless."
California governor strengthens fossil fuel fight
While fracking has not been banned in the state, regulations and restrictions have been imposed.
‘Another win for the climate’: Judge orders disclosure of climate impacts...
“This isn’t a matter of doing more paperwork, it’s a matter of enforcing restraint to preserve our ability to keep making progress for the climate.”
New bill aims to reverse the GOP’s giveaway of ANWR lands...
“This bill calls a halt to the Administration’s headlong rush to sell off this special wilderness to corporate polluters."
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.