Latest Stories in Fossil Fuels - Page 3
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US May Overtake Saudi Arabia to Become World's Top Oil Producer (Maybe)
So much for the notion that the Obama administration has been anything other than chummy with the oil industry.
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Occupy the Pipeline Shuts Down Spectra Construction in NYC
Pipeline developer Spectra cancelled construction for the day at the mere threat of protest.
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"Delta Boys" Documentary Goes Inside Nigeria's Anti-Oil Militancy
TreeHugger talks with documentary filmmaker Andrew Berends about his latest project, slated for iTunes release October 15.
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Frack-Free Colorado Highlights Natural Gas Fracking Facts (Infographic)
Frack-Free Colorado shares some of the startling facts of dangerous natural gas drilling.
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Oil-Rich Norway Doubles Its Carbon Tax on Oil Companies
There goes Scandinavia again, making the rest of the world look bad.
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Renewables, Efficiency Could Easily Replace Indian Point's Nuclear Power: Report
As New York's aging Indian Point nuclear power plant comes up for relicensing, a new report shows that its electricity simply isn't needed.
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Twice as Many Coal Plants Will Be Closed by 2016 Than We Originally Thought
A new report updates the number of coal plants that will be closed down in the face of plummeting natural gas prices.
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Is the Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline a Dead Deal?
A new Globe and Mail piece argues that opposition to the project is too great for it to be approved. If so, it's all the more reason to fight Keystone XL in the US.
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Texas Farmer Arrested for Trespassing on Her Own Land Protesting Keystone XL
Oh, and Daryl Hannah was also arrested while supporting her...
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Texas Homeowner Speaks Out About TransCanada Taking Her Land for Keystone XL Pipeline (Video)
Eleanor Fairchild talks about TransCanada taking her land, and beginning tree clearing without promised notice or explanation.
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New York Steps Back From the Fracking Abyss, For Now
The Cuomo administration has restarted the entire review process for fracking in New York State, opening up a new period of public commenting, pusing off a decision on permitting hydraulic fracturing into 2013 at earliest.
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Wyoming Water Was Contaminated by Fracking - USGS Study Confirms EPA Findings
High levels of gas concentration appear to come from fossil fuels and are not naturally occurring.
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French Oil Company CEO Calls Arctic Oil Drilling a Potential "Disaster"
Total's Christophe de Margerie says the risk to his company of Arctic oil drilling is too much to consider. Greenpeace concurs.
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Ethanol Plant Carbon Sequestration Makes a Million Tons of CO2 Disappear
Biorecro's technology adds an important element to carbon capture and sequestration - the ability to create negative emissions.
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Shell Sues Greenpeace to Stop More Anti-Oil Drilling Protests
Get this, Shell accuses Greenpeace of putting human lives and the environment at risk.
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Quebec's New Government Looks to Ban Fracking
New natural resources minister Martine Ouellet says she doesn't think fracking can ever be done safely.
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Pollution from Drilling & Shipping In the Arctic Will Make It Melt Even Faster
Arctic-bound oil companies like Shell and Gazprom are going to speed the melt of sea ice that's already shrinking thanks to global warming.
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Shell Stops Arctic Drilling for 2012 - Greenpeace Declares Victory for People Power
After a series of technical mishaps in its Arctic drilling efforts, Shell is calling it quits until next year.
