What’s ‘waste’ to the oil lobby …
Big Oil must love income inequality and our country’s shocking racial wealth gap. The industry’s latest campaign aims to perpetuate these injustices while attacking California’s efforts against climate change.
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Six months after Paris accord, we’re losing the climate-change battle
Since the signing of the Paris climate accord in December, have we made any progress in cutting global emissions?
Uncharted waters: Restoring deep Gulf fouled by BP spill
We’re trying to do something that we’ve never done before,” said Erik Cordes, a Temple University coral expert who’s studied the corals damaged by the spill and worked on the government’s restoration plans. “We are in uncharted waters here.”
The Gulf oil spill left more damage than we previously thought
Oil and other contaminates from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill — one of the worst environmental disasters in history — likely lingered in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for months longer than experts originally predicted, according to a new study.
Danger below? New properties hide abandoned oil and gas wells
In many parts of the country, areas that are now full of houses and schools and shopping centers were once oil and gas fields. You wouldn’t know it by looking, but hidden underground, there are millions of abandoned wells.
Whatever happened to advanced biofuels?
The government invested because of hopes that such advanced biofuels could reduce global warming pollution from vehicles compared with gasoline.
Here come the hydrogen stations
Hydrogen fuel cell cars are beginning to trickle onto California’s roads. True Zero wants to help automakers prepare for a more steady stream.
Pollution from Canadian oil sands vapor is substantial, study finds
The amount of pollution created by vapor from Canada’s oil sands, which contributes to climate change, ranks on par with most major cities in North America, according to a new study by the country’s environmental regulator.
University of Oklahoma developed quake position while asking oilman for $25M
University of Oklahoma officials were seeking a $25 million donation from billionaire oilman Harold Hamm last year, records show, at a time when scientists at the school were formulating the state’s position on oil drilling and earthquakes.
Exxon and Chevron face shareholder test on climate change
The country’s two largest oil companies face a critical test of shareholder confidence in their ability to adapt their businesses to a growing body of government regulation in response to climate change.
