With cheap oil becoming a luxury of the past, America and the world are working to build a clean energy future that will heal the economy and help fight global warming. But not everyone is willing to let go of the past: They're trying to develop even dirtier sources of transportation fuel -- derived from oil shale, tar sands and liquid coal -- at an even greater cost to our health and the environment.
Posted May 21, 2013 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Proponents of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in the House are pushing forward a measure that would exempt the Canadian pipeline company TransCanada from legal requirements placed on domestic pipeline operators. H.R. 3, or the Northern Route Approval Act,...continued→
Posted April 25, 2013 by Roland Hwang in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
While the Wednesday House oversight hearing on Fisker’s failure is ostensibly about whether DOE should have pulled the plug on the loans earlier, it is really about continuation of the House majority’s War on Clean Energy. Because there is broad...continued→
Posted April 24, 2013 by Elizabeth Shope in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil
This is a guest blog post by David Malitz, Ph.D. David is a consultant living in Austin, Texas with over 30 years of experience in statistical analysis. As a statistician, I expected the Keystone XL draft supplemental environmental impact statement...continued→
Posted April 22, 2013 by Elizabeth Shope in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency released its comments on the deficient environmental review for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that the State Department published on March 1, 2013. EPA rates the environmental impact statement with a 2 – meaning...continued→
Posted April 19, 2013 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Today, the State Department made a wrong decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. It refused to grant needed additional time for the American public to analyze and comment on the Department’s 3,500-page draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for...continued→
Posted April 19, 2013 by Liz Barratt-Brown in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
The massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, under review by the State Department, would be one of the largest pipelines in the country, carrying nearly ten times the dirty crude that erupted from a failed pipeline in Arkansas earlier this...continued→
Posted April 18, 2013 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
In a critical investigation, Reuters has debunked the State Department’s argument that industry’s expansion plan for tar sands production, and the substantial climate emissions associated with it, can be fueled by rail if Keystone XL is rejected. Commentators in both the...continued→
Posted April 9, 2013 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Tomorrow I will testify before the U.S. House of Representative’s Energy and Power subcommittee on the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline on tar sands production and the climate emissions associated with it. Financial analysts, industry commentators, and the environmental...continued→
Posted April 9, 2013 by Danielle Droitsch in Moving Beyond Oil
Alberta’s Premier Alison Redford visits Washington DC once again — this time, to speak at the Brookings Institution about Alberta’s claimed “record on responsible energy development” and “continued global leadership on responsible development.” Lobby trips from Canadian officials to Washington...continued→
Posted April 4, 2013 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
Image from Hip Hop Caucus On this important anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus will issue a critical call for climate action and justice at the Historically Black...continued→
