Tag: Oil
Second controversial fracked gas pipeline runs into legal trouble
Three days after the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered work to pause on the Mountain Valley Pipeline, its sister pipeline also ran into legal trouble.
Newly elected president of Mexico, Lopez Obrador, vows to ban fracking
The “plan to ban fracking in Mexico represents the latest common-sense decision by a world leader to prohibit this inherently toxic, polluting practice.”
Critics challenge ‘fundamental flaws’ in Energy Department LNG export study draft
“The draft study is deeply flawed, as the authors chose to ignore both climate science and climate action in favor of what appears to be a political imperative over any objective analysis.”
What is our land for?
Should we graze it, log it, drill it, and mine it? Or should we preserve it, study it, recreate in it, and revere it?
A new Native-led strategy for fighting Keystone XL
This is now the only tribally owned land that sits directly on KXL’s U.S. route, and as such could present legal barriers to its construction.
Grassroots fighters for the Arctic Refuge take the case to DC
We must stand for the protection of the Arctic Refuge and ask our representatives to do the same.
What #ShellKnew and how it was used to stall international climate...
For almost two decades, Shell has pushed the same proposal to tackle climate change, which still hasn’t come to fruition.
Massive Utah oil shale project threatens public health, water supply
Conservation groups today formally opposed the Trump administration’s plan to facilitate the first commercial oil shale development in the United States.
As industry pushes billion-dollar fracked petrochemical projects, state regulators struggle to...
“I’m really worried when you see this kind of very large investment and then we try to play catch-up on evaluating what the risks and the impacts on people are.”
Oil companies and lobbyists say they’re ready to solve climate change....
But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.
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Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from a swamp of...
On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.
Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump
Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?
Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare...
Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.
CBO: Trump law will add $3.4 rrillion to deficit, boot 10 million off health...
Warnings about the law's impact on the national debt and the healthcare of millions—particularly Americans on Medicaid—were prominent during the GOP effort to pass the budget reconciliation package by Trump's Independence Day deadline.
To resist injustice in Gaza and the wider world
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is neither polemic nor memoir, although it contains elements of both.