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June 19 News: U.S. Coal Exports Just Set A New Monthly Record
United States coal exports set a new record in March, driven largely by increased demand from Asia. [EIA] Coal exports from the United States in March 2013 totaled 13.6 million short tons, nearly 0.9 million short tons above the previous monthly export peak in June 2012. EIA is projecting a third straight year of more [...]
Corporate Counterfeit Science – Both Wrong and Dangerous
This is a guest post by Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). It originally appeared on the UCS blog The Equation.
Asbestos can kill you. We’ve all been warned about the dangers of breathing it in. Show More Summary
Heartland Institute - the Keystone Cops Of Climate Science Denial - Strike Again
THERE’S a section on the Heartland Institute’s website pointing readers to “Stuff We Wish We Wrote”. After events over the last year or so, the chaps at the fossil fuel-funded “think tank” might want to add a new section with the title...Show More Summary
Climate Science Deniers Aren’t The Only Ones Using The Tobacco Industry Playbook
A stunning expose by 100Reporters and Environmental Health News underscores how far some companies will go to squelch a scientific review of the impact of their products. Award-winning reporter Clare Howard, now with the investigative journalism nonprofit, “100Reporters,” has a must-read piece on the length one company went to in order to discredit critics: To [...]
Tar Sands Giant Suncor Announces Fewer Safety Checks To Avoid “Foregone Revenue”
This is a guest post by Don Lieber, originally published on PlanetSave.
Suncor Energy, the largest producer in Canada’s tar sands oil operations, has announced it will require fewer major safety maintenance “shut-down” checks at its Alberta production...Show More Summary
Managing Water in a Dry Land
The Elqui River basin in Chile’s Coquimbo region is one of the driest places on Earth. It receives only about 100 millimeters (4 inches) of rain each year, and most of it during one short rainy season. The rainfall is also highly variable. In some years, the region will get close to zero rainfall, while [...]
New Poll: Voters Favor Protecting Public Lands Over Drilling Them
A poll released today by the Center for American Progress shows strong evidence that Americans believe energy development and land conservation are out of balance. It also demonstrates that there is a wide gap between political rhetoric by the oil and gas industry and their allies in Congress and the opinions of westerners about oil [...]
Who Is Fracking With California?
California has become the newest battleground state in the fracking fight that is already being waged in states like Pennsylvania and New York. Why?
The short answer is the Monterey Shale. It’s a massive oil deposit that is trapped in...Show More Summary
How Much Did Seven House Votes Pushing Keystone XL Cost Taxpayers?
News broke recently that the 37 House votes to repeal Obamacare cost taxpayers $55 million. The House has voted for Keystone XL eight times, and Oil Change International says the House members who voted for it took six times as much money from the oil industry as their colleagues who voted against. Show More Summary
Energy Secretary Explains To GOP Member How He Knows Humans Are Warming The Planet: ‘I Know How To Count’
Yesterday, new Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz sat before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee to discuss the Department’s proposed budget and ended up explaining basic climate science to a member of the majority party. In an exchange with former committee chair Henry Waxman (D-CA) reported by E&E Daily, Moniz was blunt: “It’s indisputable that we [...]
Environmental Justice Groups Sue EPA for Failure to Enforce Clean Air Act
Despite several studies suggesting toxic emissions from refineries are underestimated, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continually failed to review and revise emissions factors for health and life-threatening pollutants.
Now, five environmental justice groups are suing the agency for failure to comply with the Clean Air Act. Show More Summary
Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists in Internal TransCanada Documents
Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska show that TransCanada - owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline - has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible...Show More Summary
Throw It Out And It Powers Your Home: Puerto Rico Turns To Garbage For Renewable Energy
Puerto Ricans will soon be turning their trash into renewable energy. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final approval of an air permit for a 77 megawatt EfW plant, owned by Energy Answers International, a first for the U.S. island territory. The $650 million facility, which will be built in three years in [...]
Drought Is Causing U.S. Beef Prices To Skyrocket
Last year’s historic drought hit the U.S. agriculture industry hard, and major losses in feed crops have driven the price of beef to record highs — prices that are expected to climb if the dry weather in the Midwest and Great Plains continues. Right now, the average retail price for ground beef is $3.51 per [...]
Will A Denier Scrub Curriculum That Teaches Climate Science To Kentucky Schoolchildren?
The Kentucky State Board of Education approved new standards for science education, including the teaching of climate change and evolution, in a unanimous vote last week. But before becoming final, the standards are subject to review by the state’s Senate Education Committee, whose chairman, Sen. Mike Wilson, is on the record opposing the teaching of [...]
Déjà Vu Fire Season Off To A Roaring Start In Colorado
In Colorado, the fire season is starting to look ominously like a repeat of 2012 and a continuation of big fire years in the West. That matches models predicting climate change will usher in an era of massive, destructive wildfires. On Monday, Denver set a new record for the earliest date to ever hit 100 [...]
IEA: CO2 Rose 1.4% In 2012, Climate Catastrophe Looms, Delaying Action Until 2020 Costs World $3.5 TRILLION!
So the good news is that the International Energy Agency reports U.S. emissions dropped in 2012 “while total CO2 emissions growth in China was one of the lowest in the last decade.” China’s annual carbon pollution now exceeds our by 60%! The IEA sums up the not so good news in this slide: Yes we [...]
Fort McMurray, Home to 176 Square km of Tar Sands Tailings Ponds, Overwhelmed by Floods
On Friday the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), the Alberta government's industry regulator, released a report stating that tar sands companies have failed to comply with pre-existing agreements to limit the amount of water...Show More Summary
D.C. Court Rules Against Environmental Transparency, Threatening Public Health and Democracy
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that trade deals can be exempted from federal disclosure laws. The case revolved around a classified document related to an FTAA (Free Trade Area of theShow More Summary
Frackademia: University of Tennessee Set to Lease Forest For Fracking, Enriching Governor's Family
8,600 acres of the Cumberland Forest owned by University of Tennessee-Knoxville will be leased off to the oil and gas industry this August in a new form of "frackademia" - and one of the top financial beneficiaries will be the family of Republican Gov. Show More Summary
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