‘Climate’ Archives
Interior Department Releases Draft Fracking Rule Lacking Basic Public Right-To-Know Measures
By Jessica Goad This morning the U.S. Department of the Interior released new draft regulations on oversight of natural gas drilling on public lands. The rule specifically addresses public disclosure of drilling chemicals, well-construction techniques, and “flowback” water that returns to the surface after drilling. This rule will only [...]
A New Application For The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Means A New Review Process
by Anthony Swift, via NRDC’s Switchboard The State Department announced that it has received an application from TransCanada for a Presidential Permit for the northern segment of its proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that the President rejected back in January. Keystone XL would carry 830,000 barrels a day of tar sands from Alberta, [...]
Mexico Sets Legally Binding Carbon Reduction Targets
Felipe Calderón stands in front of a wind farm in Mexico. by Jeffrey Cavanagh Since Mexico’s legislative body passed sweeping climate change legislation on April 19, Mexico joins the UK as the only two countries in the world with legally binding emissions goals to combat climate change. The new law will reduce the country’s carbon [...]
May 3 News: Chemicals From Marcellus Shale Fracking Could Reach Surface In ‘Just A Few Years,’ Study Finds
A round-up of the top climate and energy news. Please post extra links below. A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the ground could migrate toward drinking water supplies far more quickly than experts have previously predicted. Scientific [...]
Bad Headline Mars Good NY Times Story Debunking Lindzen’s ‘Discredited’ Cloud Theory. Can You Do Better?
Your not-so-impossible mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a headline that better reflects the actual content of today’s NY Times article, which redebunks long-debunked disinformer Richard Lindzen. Headlines are important because research shows that most newspaper readers don’t get much beyond them. And NY Times [...]
10,000 Americans Criticize Discovery Channel’s ‘Frozen Planet’ CO2 Censorship
To add your voice to the petition calling on Discovery Communications to stop the self-censorship of climate science, click here. by Brad Johnson When the Discovery Channel aired “On Thin Ice,” its Frozen Planet episode documenting changes in the Arctic, it conveniently left out human causes. The show’s producer told the New York [...]
Mali: Migration, Militias, Coups And Climate Change
by Francesco Femia & Caitlin Werrell, via The Center for Climate and Security The world is suddenly paying attention to the oft-ignored North African country of Mali, as it is racked by its most recent in a long string of crises: a coup d’etat. This political and constitutional crisis sits atop an already extremely vulnerable situation [...]
April 27 News: ‘Wacky’ Tea Party Conspiracy Bill Designed To Gut Clean Energy Moves Closer To Law
Arizona Tea Partier Judy Burges wants to kill clean energy programs. A round-up of the top climate and energy news. Please post other links below. An Arizona Tea Party-backed bill that would gut government-run green programs in the state may have the support it needs to go before Gov. Jan Brewer (R). Environmental Protection Agency [...]
Unlocking the secrets to ending an Ice Age
Guest Commentary by Chris Colose, SUNY Albany It has long been known that characteristics of the Earth’s orbit (its eccentricity, the degree to which it is tilted, and its “wobble”) are slightly altered on timescales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. Such variations, collectively known as Milankovitch cycles, conspire to pace the [...]
FACT CHECK: Americans For Prosperity Announces $6.1 Million Ad Buy To Push Totally False Green Jobs Claims
After pouring more than $8.4 million into bogus energy attack ads since November, the oil industry front group Americans For Prosperity announced yet another major ad buy of $6.1 million in eight states. The latest ad is based on a set of mistruths about green jobs that have been widely debunked. In the ad, AFP explains that “billions of [...]
