Gaius Publius: The Only Solution to Climate Change — Outlaw Fossil Fuel Production
Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as well.
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Gaius Publius: The Constant Cost of Carbon — Another California Oil Spill
The climate/political nexus behind the latest California oil spill.
Read more...Ron Wyden Calls NAFTA Insufficient Now; In 1993, He Called It a “Vote For Less Pollution”
One of the common rhetorical tropes supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have used to sell it is to declaim all prior trade agreements as inferior, relative to this bright, shiny and new deal. Ron Wyden, the Democrat in Congress most responsible for moving TPP through, gave a particularly juicy example of this yesterday.
Read more...How Much Longer Can The Oil Age Last?
I suspect readers will draw suitably concerned environmental conclusions from this forecast, that the oil era has at least another 30 years to run.
Read more...Resilience is The New Black
Why sustainability has failed and “resilience” is replacing it.
Read more...The Gazprom Case: Good Timing or Bad Timing?
Just a week after having sent a Statement of Objections (SO) in the frame of the antitrust case against Google, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager sent yesterday an SO in the frame of the case against Gazprom. The decision to send a charge sheet against the Russian gas company came after almost three years of investigations, which have also seen EU antitrust officials raiding Gazprom offices in central and eastern European countries.
Read more...California Urban Water Use Restricted While Regulators Give Oil Industry Two More Years To Operate Injection Wells In Protected Groundwater Aquifers
The Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources has improperly permitted as many as 2,500 injection wells in groundwater aquifers.
Read more...The Gulf of Maine: Poster Child for Global Weirding?
Who believes the Gulf of Maine is warming, and reasons to believe that it is.
Read more...Fracking’s New Nemesis: Earthquake Lawsuits
Despite widespread environmental concerns and community opposition, in large swathes of the US, the fracking industrial complex has seemed unstoppable. That may finally be changing.
Read more...Fracking Industry Conspiring To Cover Up Oklahoma Earthquake Evidence?
It’s one thing to suspect that evidence that fracking causes earthquakes is being suppressed. It’s quite another to be able to name the parties behind the cover up.
Read more...The Obama Administration, Shell, and the Fate of the Arctic Ocean
Royal Dutch Shell wants to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer and that could, in the long term, spell doom for one of the last great, relatively untouched oceanic environments on the planet.
Read more...The Cost of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change
The cost of delaying climate action has been studied extensively. A one-decade delay in addressing climate change would lead to about a 40% increase in the net present value cost of addressing climate change.
Read more...Is All Growth Good? The Case of China
Growth versus “groaf” had become a favorite topic of the NC commentariat. This article sets forth some of the ways for differentiating between them, using China as an example.
Read more...Green Growth or No Growth?
Many readers have taken the position that we need to put a brake on growth in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce consumption of other resources.
In a Real News Network interview, Robert Pollin goes through the math of carbon output and shows why a no growth approach is inadequate.
Read more...Michael Klare: How Big Oil Is Responding to the Anti-Carbon Movement
Yves here. It should be no surprise that Big Oil is not about to go down without a big fight. And they continue to copy from the playbook used by Big Tobacco. Behind the scenes, they go to great lengths to trying to undermine the already strong and ever-increasing evidence of the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, including openly offering bribes to scientists to attack the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. In addition, frontally, they try to present their products and their social role as positive.
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