By 
Once again, the money and power yielded by Big Oil has trumped any concern for the environment, our nation’s natural resources and precious eco systems, countless numbers of plants and animals, as well as the safety and even lives of our fellow human beings. For just last night, the 5th District Court of Appeals has terminated any hope of the Obama administration’s 6-month moratorium of new permits and the exploratory drilling of 33 deepwater wells to allow for time to review safety protocols, discover why the Deepwater Horizon blowout happened and to develop measures to ensure this never ever happens again.
Continue Reading Playing it “Safe” With Big Oil: Deepwater Offshore Drilling Moratorium Upheld
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
Is CCS, or carbon capture and storage, a promising technology to help the world deal with carbon emissions from coal-fired power plant, or a dangerous and unproven boondoggle offering false hope?
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
The Obama administration announces $350 million to develop geothermal energy.
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
The Obama administration creates the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to help set new standards for the biofuels industry.
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
The Europeans seem confident they’re at a competitive advantage in the current climate and economic crisis because they’ve been playing by the (environmental) book for the past decade.
Brussels has just adopted an Energy and Climate Package (pdf) that insiders boast will set the scene for a “new global industrial revolution”. Those are the very words the European Energy commissioner used to describe the new laws which were passed April 6. Curious what this is all about?
Continue Reading Will Europe Become Energy Independent in a Generation?
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
By setting procedural boundaries for the upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen this December, it is hoped that the ongoing “pre-talks” in Bonn, Germany will bear fruit for meaningful change.
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
The UN FAO is urging climate negotiators to incorporate agriculture into the post-Kyoto climate pact currently being negotiated, an effort that if successful could address the interlinked challenges of climate change mitigation adaptation, food security, poverty alleviation and environmental degradation in an integrated manner.
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, announced it will aim to become the world’s first carbon neutral capital by 2025.
The city launched a new climate plan last week which incorporates 50 specific measures to reduce carbon emissions. The first stage of the plan will be to slash 20% off Copenhagen’s net CO2 output by 2015.
Continue Reading Copenhagen Aims To Be Carbon Neutral By 2025
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
The International Scientific Congress on Climate Change concluded this week in Copenhagen. Convened to assimilate the latest observations and research in climate change since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released their Fourth Assessment Report, the resulting findings and report will help prepare global negotiators meeting this December in Copenhagen for the COP15.
Continue Reading International Scientific Congress on Climate Change: Key Messages
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
By
Professor James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a leading advocate of action on global warming since his first congressional hearing on the subject in the 1980′s, has sent a personal plea to president-elect Barack Obama of the urgent need to come to grips with climate change, warning that prevailing strategies to address global warming simply are not up to the task.
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
Subscribe to Updates
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
