Weekend Environmental Must-Reads – November 17-18, 2012
A selection of this weekend’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – November 20, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – November 23, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – December 7, 2012
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleLisa Jackson and the coming fight for America’s environment
With President Obama's second term less than three weeks away, there's been a lot of focus on a slew of high-profile cabinet picks, such as Sen. John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of...
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 7, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 8, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 9, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 16, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 17, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleObama faces big decision on Keystone XL as damning evidence mounts
President Obama sure has a lot on his plate as he gets ready to take the oath for his second term over the weekend -- formally on Sunday and in front of a large gathering on Monday. Much of the focus...
View ArticleWeekend Environmental Must-Reads – January 19-20, 2013
A selection of this weekend’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 21, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 23, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill
View ArticleEnvironmental Must-Reads – January 24, 2013
A selection of the latest headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking to the BP oil spill.
View ArticleKeystone XL is Obama’s chance to show he’s serious about climate change
This was not a scene that you pictured when Barack Obama was first elected president in 2008: Tens of thousands of environmentalists marching on Obama's White House, demanding action but worried that a...
View ArticleActually, it wouldn’t be crazy at all for Obama to kill the Keystone XL
The race against time to stop the Keystone XL pipeline's march across the United States -- and the dirty pollution and climate change that will inevitably come with it -- is moving forward on two...
View ArticleArkansas pipeline disaster a foreshadowing of Keystone XL nightmare?
The debate over the Keystone XL pipeline -- which would take millions of barrels of oil extracted from the tar sands of Canada and ship them to refineries and ports along the U.S. Gulf Coast (where a...
View ArticleExxonMobil — already in hot water for AK spill — blamed for New Orleans stench
This would not be the week that you'd want to begin work in the ExxonMobil PR department. Indeed, this seems to be the time when the oil giant -- in fact, the world's most profitable company, let us...
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There've been multiple reports over the last couple of days about officials in Arkansas restricting access -- apparently upon orders from top officials at ExxonMobil -- to news helicopters and other...
View ArticleTragedy in Quebec and the consequences of oil addiction
There was a new environmental tragedy this weekend -- and it came with a twist. A train that was hauling tanker cars laden with oil produced in the booming Bakken fields in North Dakota and bound for...
View ArticleVictims of last pipeline disaster forgotten as North America races to build...
What does it take to get people's attention these days? How about blowing up a cornfield in rural Illinois and sending bright orange flames shooting 300 feet into the prairie sky? Folks who live for...
View ArticleObama and BP: “We were told to stand down”
There's a fascinating piece in this week's New Yorker magazine about the environmentalists behind the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline that aims to transport oil from the Canadian tar sands across...
View ArticleFeds turn to YouTube to beg for safer pipelines
When it comes to the future of oil and gas pipelines in America, we seem to be talking past one another. With production of North American oil and natural gas skyrocketing, thanks to unconventional...
View ArticleGOP in D.C. wants to shut down the environment, too
I don't usually blog about the contentious political doings in Washington, except when they criss-cross the environmental issues, and the abusive power of Big Oil, that I deal with on a regular basis....
View Article“Secret” ND spill another reminder of Keystone XL risk
I've written here in the past that there are several very good -- and very important -- reasons for President Obama to oppose the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. That's the project that would take dirty...
View ArticleThe “Coke Brothers” trash Chicago
It was just a couple of months ago that I was telling you about an environmental monstrosity of epic proportions -- massive mountains of a toxic oil-production extract called pet coke piled up...
View ArticleAs pipeline spills get worse, regulators are in bed with Big Oil
The website Midwest Energy News asks a very good question: When a ruptured pipeline spilled 20,000 barrels of oil into a North Dakota wheat field last month, a state health official said it was “the...
View ArticleTransCanada pipeline accident is one more reason why Keystone XL must be stopped
It's getting hard to keep track of all the pipeline accidents, crude-oil-by-rail disasters and chemical spills that are taking place in North America -- amid a surge in domestic energy production --...
View ArticleKeystone XL setback isn’t end of the fight
I'm not going to write a long post on this because it was just two days ago that pointed out some of the reasons why the massive Keystone XL pipeline -- which would take heavy tar sands oil from Canada...
View ArticleFracking doesn’t reduce global warming — it makes it worse
So the original take on fracking for natural gas was that it was good for the environment, for one simple reason -- natural gas is a cleaner fuel than what it normally replaces, particularly coal which...
View ArticleCornhuskers join Louisianans in fighting Big Oil
I've written a lot lately about the growing movement for environmental justice in my home state of Louisiana -- about Gen. Russel Honore and his "Green Army" and how everyday citizens of the state,...
View ArticleNew La. oil spill is a danger warning on pipeline safety
The Big Oil folks who've been trying to cram a vast network of pipelines down the throats of the American people -- including the massive Keystone XL project that would transport copious amounts of...
View ArticleGOP pushes dangerous Keystone XL pipeline now that it’s not needed
This is a week that many of us who care about protecting the environment have been dreading. The new 114th Congress takes over today, with Republicans now controlling both houses for the first time...
View ArticleMontana pipeline crisis should be nail in coffin of Keystone XL
President Obama's State of the Union address -- and the Republican response -- certainly shed a fair amount of light on the state of the environment in 2015. The president, for his part, made a...
View ArticleWhy build a new pipeline when we can’t stop the old ones from blowing up?
The irony is almost too much to bear. This week, Senate Republicans voted to approve a bill to President Obama's desk that would mandate the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline -- the project that...
View ArticleKeystone XL and an ‘outrageous abuse of the law’: My interview with Tavis Smiley
Last week, it was my honor to fly to Los Angeles to sit down for an interview with PBS' Tavis Smiley for his nationwide late night show, to discuss my new book Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and...
View ArticleObama’s Keystone veto: First step in a long journey
It doesn't happen every day, but environmentalists got a rare dollop of good news this week. For months, supporters had been urging the president to veto any bill from the Republican-led Congress that...
View ArticleAmerica’s growing pipeline safety crisis
The fate of the Keystone XL pipeline -- the project that's become the face of fossil-fuel exploitation in the United States -- remains very much up in the air. It's still not 100 percent clear which...
View ArticleProtesters pick up slack for government inaction on fossil fuels
It's beginning to look like 2015 will be a banner year for political activism around efforts to block the growth of fossil fuels -- both here in the United States and around the world. Indeed, this...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s new stance on the Keystone XL is a win for the planet
It didn't get all the attention that it deserved -- maybe because for some odd reason this happened at almost the precise instant that Pope Francis touched down for his tour of the United States. But...
View ArticleHow local protests are saving the planet
There's an old saying in politics: Think globally, act locally. But when it comes to the major issues facing our environment, that idea has been largely honored in the breach. The rise of large and...
View ArticleKeystone spill is more proof that pipelines are unsafe at any speed
It happened again. Another oil spill, and another claim by a Big Energy company that the environmental impact is minimal. Then, a day or two later, or maybe even longer, the world learns somehow that...
View ArticleThe day climate change came to haunt tar sands country
The scenes that have been coming from Alberta, Canada, over the past week are truly tragic, and horrifying. Massive wildfires, whipped by high winds, have turned the area around Fort McMurray --...
View ArticleA President Trump would undo years of environmental progress
It took a long time, but President Obama finally has many -- not all, but many -- aspects of U.S. environmental and energy policy moving in the right direction. Even with a U.S. Congress that is led by...
View ArticleGiant gasoline leak in South more proof of pipeline vulnerability
Transporting fossil fuels across North America has become the hot-button environmental issue of the 2010s, and understandably so. Big Oil's technologies for sucking oil from locations that were once...
View ArticleThe Trump environmental disaster begins
For the last few months, I've written at least a half dozen posts about the massive environmental catastrophe that awaits America and the world if Donald Trump were to be elected president. Clearly,...
View ArticleThe Dakota pipeline and the assault on Native Americans
Thanksgiving is a day for spending time with family and friends, but also a time to remember some of the simple moral values that make America the nation that it is -- or at least that it can be. The...
View ArticleOn pipeline day, Canada spill shows danger
Pipelines were the big national news story today. In Washington, President Trump -- fulfilling his campaign promises on the fourth full day of his administration -- signed two executive orders intended...
View ArticleHitting the Dakota Access pipeline where it hurts
Things are stirring again with the Dakota Access pipeline. It was late last year, near the end of his term, when then-President Barack Obama handed a victory to activists seeking to block the opening...
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