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Obama’s March Madness
Spring is in the air — but has the president really fallen madly in love with dirty energy? As usual, the answer is complicated.
Tesla’s Elon Musk Calls Carbon Tax “Ideal”
The take-home from Musk is that subsidies may be good and may be bad as policy tools, but they are inferior to a carbon tax.
Is Dimock’s Water Really Safe to Drink?
When the EPA announced last week that the water is safe to drink in Dimock, PA, it seemed to vindicate the energy industry’s insistence that drilling and fracking had not caused pollution in the area. But there’s more to the story.
Shell Game
Royal Dutch Shell, the fifth-largest company in the world, is suing the Sierra Club along with a dozen other environmental organizations.
Feds Let BP Off Probation Despite Pending Safety Violations
by Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica BP’s refining subsidiary was released today from criminal probation related to a 2005 explosion in Texas City that killed 15 workers. The company has addressed the most serious safety deficiencies exposed by the accident and satisfied the terms of a felony plea agreement to settle charges that it failed to protect [...]
