Latest Stories in Fossil Fuels - Page 8
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EPA Orders Oil Companies to Pay for Contamination of Montana Town's Water Supply
More than 40 million gallons of brine have entered the drinking water aquifer over five decades. Now, the EPA is holding three oil companies at least partly responsible for the contamination.
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Fracking 'Exxposed' In New Video From Water Defense
"All across the country, gas companies are poisoning water, tearing apart communities and destroying the American dream for thousands of families who can't protect their children from what comes out of the tap."
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Kosovo Citizens Protest World Bank's Plan to Build Coal Plant
The World Bank wants to build a big coal plant in Kosovo, and is refusing to consider cleaner, more modern energy technologies.
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Shell Oil President: "There Is No Immediate Fix For the Price of Oil Today"
Shell Oil President talks with Charlie Rose about energy and says there is no immediate fix for soaring gas prices, despite GOP attacks against the president on this issue.
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Energy News: Fracking Could Crack Carbon Capture; Shell Gets Another Arctic Drilling OK; More
Not to be a downer, but there's a quartet of concerning news this morning worth paying attention to. Beyond the headline: The Koch Brothers fund disinformation on Obama's influence on fuel prices; and, the Senate rejects ending Big Oil subsidies.
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Panic Buying of Fuel Grips UK Motorists
Panic by UK motorists causes fuel supplies to run dry, all because of a few careless words from the Prime Minister.
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Oil & Gas Industry Could Cut US Methane Emissions One-Third Though Efficiency Improvements
A new report from NRDC shows how the US oil and gas industry could lower its methane emissions by more than 80% by implementing waste reduction programs and improving efficiency.
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The Demand for Cheap Energy is Entitlement Culture Gone Mad
The constant demands for cheap oil and fossil fuels is a sign that we've become spoiled as a culture. It's time we grew up and took some responsibility.
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Map Shows the Country's Dirtiest Air: Are You In a Deadly Zone?
An American Lung Association map shows how power plant pollution spreads, and concentrates, around the country.
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Four Arrested at Occupy Wall Street's 'Disrupt Dirty Power' Protest
Last Tuesday, #Occupy protests took to the U.N. to protest the influence of the financial sector on polluting power.
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Study Finds Fracking Poses Air Pollution Health Risks, But EPA Still Denying Groundwater Impacts
Air pollutants monitored near natural gas drilling sites were measured at five times federal standards.
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Alec Baldwin Says Sen. James Inhofe is an "Oil Whore", Should "Retire to a Solar-Powered Gay Bar"
At long last, a story of the omnipresent 'Celebrity Says Something Semi-Controversial on Twitter' variety graces the green world.
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World on Course to be Powered 85% by Fossil Fuels in 2050
Which means a 50% increase in greenhouse gas emissions, too.
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Three Times as Many Americans Want More Fracking Oversight Than Less
A new Bloomberg poll shows Americans strongly support more transparency and regulation in the fracking process.
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World Energy Use Over the Last 200 Years (Graphs)
The Oil Drum whipped up some charts of world energy consumption over the last 200 years. They tell a powerful story of human progress and the perils ahead.
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Protecting the Arctic - Another Reason to Party
Sierra Club partners with Discovery to throw House Parties for "Frozen Planet" and to protect the Arctic.
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For Like the Hundredth Time, GOP Tries to Approve Keystone XL
The GOP is trying yet again to pass a measure overruling the President's dismissal of Keystone XL, and to approve the 1,700 mile pipeline without an environmental review.
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Tar Sands Industry Claims About Restoring Ecosystems Just Greenwashing, New Report Says
New research in Proceedings and of the National Academy of Sciences claims that peat swamps destroyed by tar sands mining can never be fully restored.
