Big Oil
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From Big Energy to Congress, the money pipeline never closes
A new website lets us follow the prodigious flow of cash from oil companies to the politicians who do their bidding.
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The spill may be killed, but bad news still plagues BP
BP's "static kill" seems to have sealed the Deepwater Horizon leak. The leak may be plugged, but the bad news gushes on.
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Mammoth trucks en route to Canada’s tar sands threaten Montana
Imperial Oil has contracted to transport giant machines from South Korea through Idaho and Montana to Canada’s Athabaskan tar-sands project in Alberta
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Reports of BP disaster's death are greatly exaggerated
A narrative downplaying the BP spill has emerged in the press. Meanwhile, oil continues to wash ashore and the long-term effects remain unknown.
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Congress rolls out its spill bills
Finally we got a look at what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) considers climate and energy legislation. Don't cheer all at once.
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The Gulf Coast joins an oil-soiled planet
More oil is spilled in the Niger Delta every year than has been spilled in the Gulf so far.Photo courtesy Amnesty International Italia via FlickrThis essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil — and […]
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The next phase of the Gulf oil disaster: lawyers and lobbyists descend
Watch out: They’re coming …We’ve gone from a gush to a seep in the Gulf. Sounds like progress. But in some ways, things are only beginning to get oily. This is the part where the lawyers and the lobbyists come in. What’s ours is ours: Let’s start with a report from the Mobile Press-Register that […]
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California anti-climate ballot measure could have global consequences
Image: Climate Progress This post first appeared at the Center for American Progress. This November, California voters are in danger of undoing one of the most progressive pieces of environmental legislation ever passed. Texas oil companies have taken advantage of California’s quirky initiative system to place Proposition 23 on the ballot. This proposition has one […]
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The climate war’s western front
Gov. Schwarzenegger at a press conference. Photo: Office of the GovernorThe latest California ballot measure to make a national splash addresses neither marijuana nor gay marriage, but an even more contentious issue these days: cap-and-trade. Proposition 23 would suspend California’s statewide cap-and-trade plan, currently scheduled to take full effect in 2012, until unemployment drops to […]
