By Kim Smaczniak Most Americans probably don’t know that an independent—and up to now nonpartisan—government agency has played a key role in our nation’s transition to cleaner energy technologies. Under the radar and hidden beneath a layer of technical jargon, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has shepherded changes to electricity market rules that have […]
By Alleen Brown In Donald Trump‘s first week as president, text describing two rules regulating the oil and gas industry was removed from an Interior Department website. The rules, limiting hydraulic fracturing and natural gas flaring on public lands, are in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. The changes were noted by the Environmental Data […]
By Martha Roberts Scott Pruitt, President Trump‘s pick for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is withholding thousands of emails related to his ties to major energy interests who may have donated to his political causes. https://facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/10158252716670301/ Such stonewalling makes it difficult for senators to vote on his nomination since they can’t know if these […]
President Trump signed his first Congressional Review Act-sponsored bill (CRA) Tuesday, declaring at the signing that “energy jobs are coming back” and “lots of people [are] going back to work now.” The Most Dangerous Bill You’ve Never Heard of Just Passed the House https://t.co/eegoOY5cnH @greenpeaceusa @HuffPostGreen — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) January 10, 2017 The legislation, in […]
I coined the term “Serengeti Strategy” in my 2012 book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. It’s meant to describe how industry special interests and their patrons in power single out individual researchers or teams of scientists for attack, in much the same way lions of the Serengeti single out an individual zebra from […]
By Steve Horn and Itai Vardi Believe it or not, there’s a key connection to Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, in the fight over North America’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline. One of President Donald Trump’s first actions in office was to sign an executive order on Jan. 24 expediting the approval of the Keystone […]
By Nika Knight As the Trump administration and Republicans in power in Congress set to work destroying environmental regulations, scientists have added urgency to the resistance with a simple new equation that shows the staggering effect human activity has had on the climate. Their findings? Humans have altered the climate 170 times faster than natural […]
By Andy Rowell Early yesterday, work restarted on the highly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), less than a day after the Trump administration granted a final easement to allow the project to go ahead over the disputed land near the Standing Rock reservation. Army Corps to Grant Final Permit for #DAPL https://t.co/YbQSP4Dxn0 — Robert F. […]
Two major pipeline spills were reported the same week that President Donald Trump signed orders to move the Keystone XL (KXL) and Dakota Access (DAPL) pipelines forward. The recent breaches highlight the dangers of unreliable fossil fuel infrastructure in North America. OMG! #Trump to Sign 2 Executive Actions to Advance #KeystoneXL & #DakotaAccess Pipelines https://t.co/k4nlcbwWCO […]
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