Tag: Oil

For almost two decades, Shell has pushed the same proposal to tackle climate change, which still hasn’t come to fruition.

Conservation groups today formally opposed the Trump administration’s plan to facilitate the first commercial oil shale development in the United States.

“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.”

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.

“If we are going to stop plastic we need to stop plastic where it starts.”

The fracking boom is flooding the world with Ziploc bags, ketchup packets, and single-use spoons.

While the development of public transit is seen by many as "positive for both impoverished communities and the environment," it hurts the Koch brothers' bottom line.

The EIA conference, hosted by the federal agency that tracks energy industry trends and statistics, would focus on a decidedly different topic: the booming oil and gas industry.

"What good would come from destabilizing Iran? What would America get out of that?”

"This project threatens some of our most basic American values; I think you'll find the people in Pennsylvania care a lot about public safety especially of their most vulnerable residents – children and seniors."