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 February 8, 2012 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a deeply flawed bill that would use Congressional authority to permit TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The bill, H.R. 3548, would force the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to grant a permit for Keystone...continued→
Posted February 4, 2012 by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
First of all, you won’t find tar sands mentioned in any of the polling. And in most polls, you won’t even find oil. It’s just the Keystone XL pipeline, no context, no mention of what it will carry, and certainly...continued→
Posted February 1, 2012 by Laurie Johnson in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
[We’re] probably looking at…from Montana to Houston, I don’t know, [job creation] in the hundreds...” (Robert Jones, TransCanada’s Vice President for Keystone Pipelines, CNN, November 11, 2011) Interesting quote. TransCanada and its allies can’t seem to keep their...continued→
Posted January 25, 2012 by Janet Barwick in Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places
(left to right: Joanie Kresich, Frances Stewart, Margot Kidder, and actress Tantoo Cardinal) On a recent trip to the hair salon, I had the good fortune to run into Margot Kidder, one of Livingston’s colorful local celebrities. If you...continued→
Posted January 25, 2012 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, hundreds of “referees” gathered on Capitol Hill and blew the whistle on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Those referees were back in action this morning at the House energy subcommittee hearing on a proposal by Representative...continued→
Posted January 24, 2012 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
In giving the official Republican response to tonight’s State of the Union address, Indiana Governor Daniels pushed a tar sands pipeline that would put our health and safety at risk to benefit the oil industry. Echoing the wildly exaggerated jobs...continued→
Posted January 24, 2012 by Anthony Swift in Moving Beyond Oil, U.S. Law and Policy
The Republican leadership’s latest gambit to force through TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a measure proposed by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) in December. GOP leadership apparently decided to rally behind Terry’s bill, H.R. 3548, after discussing various options...continued→
Posted January 24, 2012 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
After the State of the Union address tonight, we can expect Governor Daniels’ GOP response to sing the praises of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline which would put Americans at risk to benefit multinational oil companies. Keystone XL...continued→
Posted January 24, 2012 by Elizabeth Shope in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Today, hundreds of people will gather on West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building at noon – dressed in referee shirts – to “blow the whistle” on Big Oil and speak out against the undue influence Big Oil has on...continued→
Posted January 23, 2012 by Elizabeth Shope in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
This is a guest blog from David Roswell, an Oberlin student interning at NRDC during January 2012 It’s not often that we win. Especially for the current crop of college students, who grew up in the Bush years, environmental victories...continued→
