New Exxon CEO Echoes Rex Tillerson’s Self-Serving Disinformation On Climate Science
Darren Woods, the new chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp., mirrored his predecessor’s skeptical view on climate change in his...
Category: Environment
EPA’s Mission Subverted By Trump Choice Scott Pruitt
The US Environmental Protection Agency has almost immediately been castrated and had any legitimacy it once had undermined after Scott...
Big Oil Gets Its Man As EPA Chief
The Senate narrowly confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency chief on Friday, despite Democrats’ calls to delay the...
Solar & Wind Jobs Growing 12x Faster Than US Economy But Crazy Donald Wants To Kill Them
Would you rather be a coal miner or a solar power technician? Bad news if you answered (correctly) that life...
Trump Proposes an Energy Plan That Puts Americans Last
The new boss waited about 1.2 nanoseconds before announcing his America First Energy Plan. Environmental groups weighed in a heartbeat...
ExxonMobil Sends Its Boss Tillerson Off To D.C. With $180M Golden Parachute to Hustle for Big Oil
ExxonMobil has agreed to provide an investment package worth about $180 million to its outgoing chief executive, Rex Tillerson, letting...
Pipeline 150 Miles from Standing Rock Spews More Than 176,000 Gallons of Oil Into Water Supply
Echoing the same dangers that water protectors warned about the Dakota Access Pipeline, another pipeline in the Western part of...
An Anti-Environmentalist Trump Presidency Would Likely Mean 3.4 Billion Tons More Carbon Emissions
A new analysis of policies promised by US Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump by Lux Research has shown...
Journalist Amy Goodman Invokes 1st Amendment Rights Against N. Dakota Pipeline Company
October 13, 2016 – Award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, charged with criminal trespassing for filming an attack on Native American-led pipeline...
600 Megawatt Colorado Wind Farm Blows Past ALEC Roadblock
The powerful lobbying organization ALEC has been trying to trip up the US wind industry for years, but it looks...
Exxon Mobil Sued Over Climate Change Cover-Up
The environmental advocacy group Conservation Law Foundation has made good on its threat to sue Exxon Mobil Corp., filing what it says is the...
Community Solar Project to Retrain Underemployed and Unemployed Coal Miners
San Diego-based Solar Alliance Energy plans to build a 500 kW community solar generation and battery storage project in Southern...
Oil Industry Unleashes Attack Dogs and Pepper Spray on Native American Protestors
For the second time in as many weeks, Americans are learning that their 1st Amendment right to free expression, including...
Koch-Republicans Hope the National Park Service’s 100th Anniversary Will Be Its Last
In normal circumstances when an anniversary arrives the farthest thing from anyone’s mind is that it may be the last,...
Donald Trump’s Energy Proposals Cater to Fossil Fuel Billionaires at the Expense of Humanity
Donald Trump told the Detroit Economic Conference this week that he will propose “a complete rethinking of our energy policy.” What...
New Koch-Funded Group Aims to Promote the “Positives” of Dirty Fuels
A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling US Forward made its public debut at the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, where the organization’s President and CEO Charles Drevna gave...
ExxonMobil Pays Lip Service To Environmentalism While Contributing To Republicans Who Block All Efforts To Combat Climate Change
Over the course of the past couple of years some of the giants in the oil industry have intimated that...
As The World Burns, The Rich Cruise In Luxury Through A Melting Arctic
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
The Oil Industry Wrote The Book On How To Burn Up the Planet
A new discovery into the true corruption of the oil industry and it’s relationship to Big Tobacco is sending shockwaves...
President Obama Announces Solar-Boosting Initiative
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a series of measures aimed at boosting access to solar energy—a move one environmental...
Tennessee Thumbs Nose At Reactionary Koch Bros, Hosts Cutting-Edge Solar Energy Storage Demo
The great state of Tennessee is on the cutting edge of new energy storage tech, thanks partly to its role...
Americans Subsidize The Coal, Gas, And Oil Industries To The Tune Of $2,180 Per American Per Year
Ah, society — takes us decades to turn a simple, life-saving corner. Subsidizing fossil fuels in the 21st century has...
Obama Criticizes Republicans In Congress For Obstructing Climate Action
Over the weekend, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park. He used the occasion to slam congressional Republicans for their intransigent...
DuPont Knowingly Poured Poison in the Ohio River and Turned a Blind Eye
America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on RT’s Redacted Tonight to discuss DuPont’s history with a deadly product known as C8,...
Exxon’s CEO Convinces Shareholders that Profit is More Important than Human Survival
After a long battle to even get on the agenda for ExxonMobil’s 2016 Annual Meeting, the company’s shareholders on Wednesday...
Corporate Fossil Fuel Lobbying Efforts Mirror Tobacco Industry
We hear a lot these days about how fossil fuel companies are spending large amounts of money to influence policy...
Petition Calls For Employers To Offer Fossil-Free Retirement Options
Many in the US are at least partly reliant upon employer-offered retirement planning for their post-employment financial well-being. With that...
Instead of Lobbying, Utilities Could Have Doubled US Solar Capacity
The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute just released a report analyzing the top 25 US investor-owned electric utilities, and one...
Oil Companies Have Lied About Climate Change For Decades While Sitting On The Proof
A 48 year old report recently unearthed reveals that oil executives knew about the effects that the extraction and burning...
Mormon Republicans Continue Bundy’s War On Americans’ Public Lands
Nearly two years ago when a Mormon rancher who hates the federal government he had been stealing from for 20...
Koch Brothers Can’t Stop Trying To Kill People
How much damage can two individuals do? If those two people are the Koch Brothers (pronounced “coke”) the answer is,...
Koch Brothers and Their Front Group ALEC Attempt to Destroy Nation’s Solar Industry
The fight over solar net metering in Nevada just got personal last Friday, with a proposed new amendment tacked on...
House Republicans Accused of Harassing Climate Scientists
Leading scientists have accused a Republican-led committee of subjecting climate researchers to politically motivated “harassment” amid an increasingly fractious investigation...
For Exxon Mobil, Profit Is More Important Than Life Itself
It may be hard to accept, but a single company may have set back all of humanity. Had Exxon Mobil...
Vile Koch Brothers Spend Millions To Eliminate Solar Power in Sunny Florida
With the nickname “The Sunshine State,” it would make sense for Florida to be a leader in solar energy in...
Environmental groups call for investigation of Exxon for ‘misleading public’ on climate
Leading US environmental campaigners have joined a diverse line-up of pressure groups to demand a federal investigation into allegations that...
Congressional Republicans Target Scientists For Harassment and Intimidation
Science is broadly defined as a systematic enterprise that gathers, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations...
Duke Energy: Scheming with the Billionaire Koch Brothers to Kill Solar Power
“Duke Energy is front and center in a new report connecting the company to a national network of utility interest...
Exxon’s climate change denial may warrant prosecution
Members of Congress have asked for a federal investigation into whether ExxonMobil broke the law by intentionally obscuring the truth...
Koch-Backed Republicans Want To Eliminate America’s National Parks
It is hardly a secret that Republicans wholly-support and agree with their masters, the Koch brothers, that every sector of...
Right Wing Koch Brothers Go to War Against Solar Energy
The Koch brothers, Duke Energy and Arizona Public Service are among 12 special interest groups waging aggressive anti-solar campaigns across...
Corporate Climate Deniers/Sponsors May Be Investigated Under RICO
Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco’s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes… Read more…
Cities Could Save $17 Trillion By Reducing CO2 Emissions
Making cities greener could save a lot of, well, green, according to a new report. The report, published Tuesday by...
Top Oil Executives Get Rich While Destroying the Climate
A new study has found that top oil and gas executives receive massive bonuses for making decisions that ultimately have...
Colorado Invests in Community Solar Projects
In what is described as being the first statewide initiative of its kind, Colorado has awarded a grant of $1.2...
Greed-head Charles Koch Objects to Being Called Out by President Obama
It would be a stretch to find a person over the age of seven that has never heard, or cannot...
