Category: Oil and Gas
Vitter and His Campaign Contributors Fight Against EPA Carbon Rules, Favor Anti-Environment Agenda
Vitter’s Billionaire’s Club report is a distraction from the real billionaires in politics with whose dirty energy agenda David Vitter is strongly aligned.
Willie Soon Secret Fossil Fuel Funding Revealed For Papers Denying Man-Made Climate Change
Southern Company has been funding Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and climate change denier at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics through one of its subsidiaries called Southern Company Services.
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Atlantic Offshore Drilling Plans Continue: Fossil Fuel Front Groups Meet Privately With Federal Agencies
Update March 15, 2016: The Obama administration said it will not auction off drilling rights for Atlantic Ocean waters off the coast of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. However, the Department of Interior will consider the...
The 2014 Midterm Election Results: Implications for Energy and Environment Policies
The 2014 midterm elections will have implications on a variety of issues across the country and throughout all levels of government. Many people will be analyzing the events and decisions...
Message to Dems: Natural Gas Won’t Save the Climate
Last week, a study published in the journal Nature found that the increase in global natural gas consumption “is not necessarily an effective substitute for climate change mitigation policy.” The...
Assemblymember Perea’s Energy Bill Pushed by Fossil Fuel Interests Tied to American Legislative Exchange Council
In 2014, California Assembly Bill 1763 would require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a state energy plan for 2030 and 2050. It is sponsored by Californians for Affordable...
Fracking New York with Another Conflict of Interest: Ecology and Environment’s Frackonomics
Member of one of the oil and gas lobby hired as "independent consultant" by Cuomo Administration.
Fracking Scandal Hits Cuomo Administration
Newly Disclosed Documents Show Conflicts of Interest