Solutions: New trading funds highlight expanding role of wind in global...
Two new Exchange Traded Funds, filed within days of each other with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will focus on companies that provide products and services to the wind-energy industry,...
View ArticleUS Government Releases 2007 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released its 2007 Greenhouse Gas Emissions report today, outlining the the latest trends in US energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.You can go here to...
View ArticleChuse Science
Late yesterday, reports started zinging around suggesting that the Obama transition team was ready to announce its energy and environment leaders.By now it's clear they are the following: former New...
View ArticleNightmare On Coal Street: The Video
Earlier this week, President-elect Barack Obama announced his picks for his energy team, with Dr. Steven Chu to head up the Department of Energy.Dr. Chu is not the happy holiday gift the "clean coal"...
View ArticleCriticism Intensifies of New Mexico’s Climate Denying Energy Secretary,...
Harrison Schmitt has had an impressive and storied career: Apollo astronaut and moonwalker, U.S. Senator, Ph.D. geologist. Since his recent appointment to head the New Mexico Department of Energy,...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s Fracking Panel Unmoved By Pennsylvanians’ Water Concerns
On Monday, the Natural Gas Subcommittee, from Energy Department Secretary Stephen Chu’s Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), held its second public meeting. Around 400 people packed a cramped auditorium at...
View ArticleScientists Say Obama Fracking Panel is Financially Tied to Gas Industry
The Natural Gas Subcommittee of the Secretary of the Energy Advisory Board released their draft report today, which outlines immediate actions to improve the health and environmental risks associated...
View ArticleSenate Hearing Confirms Natural Gas Export Plans Will Raise Prices For Americans
Considering the rate at which natural gas resources are being developed, and the sudden push from industry to export the product, it might come as a surprise that the Senate’s Energy Committee hadn’t...
View ArticleALEC Wasn't First Industry Trojan Horse Behind Fracking Disclosure Bill -...
19th Century German statesman Otto von Bismarck once said, "If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made."The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), put on the map...
View ArticleReturn Of The Republican Gas Price Lies
After many weeks of silence, Republican politicians and the dirty energy industry have re-launched their attacks on President Obama and Democrats over the price of gasoline. The silence from these...
View ArticleFormer Clinton and Bush Cabinet Members, Now Oil and Gas Lobbyists, Expect...
The Tar Sands Blockade of TransCanada Corporation's "Keystone XL South" continues in Texas, but former members of the Clinton and George W. Bush cabinets believe the northern half will soon be...
View ArticleRevealed: NERA Economic Consulting is Third Party Contractor for DOE LNG...
Reuters has revealed the identity of the mysterious third party contractor tasked to publish the economic impact study on LNG (liquefied natural gas) exports on behalf of the Department of Energy...
View ArticleKeystone XL North: TransCanada's Controversial Shale Gas Export Pipeline Plan
The battle continues over the future of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, with the Tar Sands Blockade continuing and a large forthcoming President's Day anti-Keystone XL rally set to take...
View ArticleTies That Bind: Ernest Moniz, Keystone XL Contractor, American Petroleum...
Congress will review the Obama Administration's nomination of Ernest Moniz for Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) in hearings that start today, April 9.Moniz has come under fire for his...
View ArticleFriday Trash Dump: Obama DOE Approves 2nd Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal
Friday is the proverbial "take out the trash day" for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this Friday was no different. In that vein, yesterday the Obama Department of...
View ArticleEnergy Secretary Ernest Moniz Relies on Dubious Coal Tech for Obama Climate...
The key takeaway from President Obama's major climate change announcement this week was his intent to batten down on coal. But if history is any indication, the man Mr. Obama selected to run the...
View ArticleFracking's Myriad Ties to Flawed State Dept Keystone XL Environmental Review
Most don't think of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") when pondering the future of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline - but they should. There are numerous ties between key members of...
View Article"Frackademia" By Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed
With the school year starting for many this week, it's another year of academia for professors across the United States - and another year of "frackademia" for an increasingly large swath of...
View ArticleBreaking: First Marcellus Fracked Gas Export Permit Approved by Energy Dept
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted the first ever LNG export permit license to Dominion Resources, Inc. to export gas obtained from the controversial hydraulic fracturing ("fracking")...
View ArticleNever-Released Energy Department Report Predicts Increasing Domestic...
Last summer, the United States experienced the worst drought since the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.At the same time, the country was experiencing one of the biggest onshore drilling booms in history,...
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