One of the most persistent arguments coming from those who oppose renewable energy subsidies is that they could never stand on their own without government intervention and that we should let the market decide which electricity source is best.
New research published in the current issue of the journal, Conservation Biology, finds that sexual offenders seem to flock to energy towns.
With the onset of YouTube and the emergence of digital environmental advocacy, environmental activists have taken to the virtual airwaves in a competition to frame environmental issues from global warming to energy use.
As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It's radioactive. And they have yet to say how they'll deal with it.
A U.S. District Court Judge awarded a preliminary injunction against a Canadian mining company, barring it from drilling and any other activities related to oil and gas exploration on the 79,000-acre Baca Wildlife Refuge in southwest Colorado.
Sometimes I think I could start a blog media network that features nothing but Glenn Beck’s McCarthy-esque fear-mongering and Red-Scare tactics. In particular, I think I could focus the entirety of the network’s content on the right-wing TV host’s campaign to convince Americans that environmentalists are communists — and then I remember that’s what Fox [...]
Even though I had my toothpaste confiscated at the airport in Houston before my flight back, it was, by and large, an excellent trip to the 2009 Offshore Technology Conference
[From my post at Red, Green, and Blue] Shell Oil’s plan to acquire a junior water right for an 8% stake of Colorado’s Yampa River average April-to-June flow for oil shale development has been opposed by some twenty-five parties, all submitting letters of opposition to the District 6 Colorado Water Court in Steamboat Springs. Among those opposing [...]
One of the biggest global environmental organizations launched a campaign on Tuesday to push the Nigerian government to effectively ban gas flaring. Friends of the Earth’s month-long campaign against Nigerian gas flaring kicked off on Monday and will see petitions delivered to political leaders, including President Umaru Yar’Adua. Nigeria is a leading oil producer in Africa [...]
Extraction and refining heavy oil from Canadian tar sands will have increasingly devastating impacts on migratory bird populations, according to a new study. [Originally published at Red, Green, and Blue] According to a new report, the cumulative impact of developing Canadian tar sands over the next 30–50 years could be as high as 166 million birds [...]
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