Latest Stories in Fossil Fuels
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Even Former Coal Miners Want to End Mountaintop Removal Mining
It's time to end this destructive practice, and Appalachian residents descended upon Washington, D.C., this week to demand action.
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Al Gore calls Alberta Tar Sands "an open sewer."
In a speech in Toronto, he also says “There’s no such thing as ethical oil,” he said. “There’s only dirty oil and dirtier oil.”
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Why does Obama love natural gas? It's complicated.
Josh Fox says President Obama's support for natural gas shocked him, but Brad Plumer shows how the issue of gas exports and production has much to do with maintaining trade relationships.
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Jargon watch: "Unburnable carbon" is important buzz word in energy debate
Leaving some fossil fuels in the ground is the oft-overlooked option in debates over energy policy. "Unburned carbon" is new buzz word and important choice in energy debate.
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Coal or natural gas? It's a false choice, explains Gasland's Josh Fox
Josh Fox had a good answer to the question of whether natural gas is a necessary evil.
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Gasland's Josh Fox on investigating the gas industry
Josh Fox is on Andrew Sullivan's Ask Me Anything series this week. In his first video he talks about how he became interested in the natural gas industry and how his first film came about.
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No Keystone pipeline? No problem, Alberta will just go north to the Arctic Ocean
Alternatives to the Keystone line are popping up all over Canada.
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If Keystone XL is rejected, will rail shipments fill the gap?
While rail may be considered safer than a pipeline, I don't find that argument compelling when considered in the context of the math of climate change. The debate over rail versus pipelines is the wrong argument to be having.
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The latest on Keystone XL: EPA criticizes State, while activists rally opposition
David Gordon, the director of policy planning under former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, says the chances are about four-to-one” that President Obama will approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian tar sands to oil refineries in Texas.
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Tribal Activist's Clean-Energy Quest
A mother's fight to protect her children and her tribe
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InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer for oil spill reporting
For only the third time ever, a web-based news organization has won a Pulitzer Prize.
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James Hansen makes the case against Keystone XL and tar sands extraction
Climate scientist, James Hansen is retiring from NASA to to focus his time and energy to slowing the release of greenhouse gases.
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Obama's EPA to require better gasoline, cleaner air
Good news for those of you that enjoy clean air!
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Tar Sands Blockade pressures banks to divest from Keystone XL project, 37 arrested in week of protests
This week, Tar Sands Action is engaged in a series of protests directed at bringing attention to the Keystone XL pipeline and banks that profit from these dirty tar sands development.
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Global warming is not reversible, at least not anytime soon. But it can - and must - be slowed.
Joe Romm at Climate Progress made a great point yesterday in highlighting one of the most dangerous myths of climate change: that it is reversible.
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Does Obama even see Keystone XL as climate issue?
A report in TIME says White House doesn't see KXL as "a climate cure." Do they even recognize it as an climate issue, at all?
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Ten reasons fracking California is stupid idea - Grist
David Roberts at Grist lists "Ten reasons why fracking for dirty oil in California is a stupid idea. Go read it all.
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Infographic explains "terrifying math of global warming"
A powerful infographic explains the math of climate change and why we must leave fossil fuels in the ground.
