Energy

10 Most Toxic Ingredients Used In Coal, Oil and Gas Production

10 Most Toxic Ingredients Used In Coal, Oil and Gas Production

By Don Lieber There are many reasons to reject fossil fuels now, after 200 years of their reign as society’s primary energy source. History will articulate both the benefits provided to human society derived from fossil fuel energy technologies from 1750 to the present—and the extensive costs. In addition to transportation, electricity, industrial power, military […]

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    Fighting for Climate Justice: 29 of the Arctic 30 Released From Russian Jail

    Fighting for Climate Justice: 29 of the Arctic 30 Released From Russian Jail

    Today, Phil Ball from Oxford, England, became the second to last detainee of the Arctic 30 to be released from detention in St. Petersburg, according to Greenpeace. Colin Russell is the lone activist remaining in jail, where his lawyers are lodging appeals against his continued detention. They expect a hearing this week. All but one member of […]

    North American First: Ontario Bans Coal-Fired Power

    North American First: Ontario Bans Coal-Fired Power

    On Thursday, Environmental Defence hosted Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and former U.S. Vice-President and Chairman of the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore, at an event to announce the elimination of coal-fired electricity in Ontario. The largest coal plant in North America—Nanticoke Generating Station on the north shore of Lake Erie—will stop burning coal this year. […]

    Help Free the Arctic 30 and Stand Up Against Fossil Fuel Extraction Everywhere

    Help Free the Arctic 30 and Stand Up Against Fossil Fuel Extraction Everywhere

    By Daryl Hannah and Phil Radford All around the globe, record numbers of people from all walks of life are being thrown into jails because they are standing up to protect the most basic of human needs—uncontaminated water, unpolluted lands and a liveable climate free from the ramifications of extreme fossil fuel extraction. If the greed-driven fossil fuel […]

    California’s Cap-and-Trade Program Upheld in Court

    California’s Cap-and-Trade Program Upheld in Court

    Photo courtesy of Shutterstock The Sacramento Superior Court upheld California’s cap-and-trade program just five days before the fifth scheduled carbon auction. The California Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Legal Foundation filed lawsuits claiming the one-year-old program, which auctions off the right to emit greenhouse gases, was unconstitutional. The court sided with the state, which countered that auctioning carbon permits […]

    Paul McCartney Writes to President Putin Calling for Release of the Arctic 30

    Paul McCartney Writes to President Putin Calling for Release of the Arctic 30

    Today, Sir Paul McCartney published a personal letter on his blog addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin in which the ex-Beatle called for the release of the Arctic 30. The Arctic 30—made up of 28 Greenpeace International campaigners and two freelance journalists—were arrested eight weeks ago following a peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling. In his letter, […]

    Grim Consequences of Canadian Tar Sands’ Rapid Growth

    Grim Consequences of Canadian Tar Sands’ Rapid Growth

    As Alberta Premier Alison Redford heads to Washington D.C. this week to push U.S. officials on the Keystone XL project, a coalition of Canadian environmental groups wrote a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to consider the impacts of tar sands production on human health and the environment, as well as the failures by […]