Tag: Oil

"Experts in environmental law estimate that the Trump administration has now lost about 40 environmental cases in federal courts."

As the island rebuilds after Hurricane Maria, a century-old federal shipping law known as the Jones Act stands in the way of the oil and gas industry flooding the island with liquefied natural gas, or LNG.

"The #KeystoneXL tar sands pipeline was a bad idea from Day One and it remains a terrible idea today."

The gas industry and its allies in Congress hope to push LNG exports to the island’s electricity grid, ravaged from climate change-fueled natural disaster.

As the DeSmog series Fracking for Plastics notes, Saetre is not alone in his ambition to either burn all the oil and gas or turn it into plastics.

This culture of access has had real environmental consequences.

“It’s not just Exxon. This is industry-wide knowledge of the fact that the fossil fuel industry’s products were going to cause climate change, and that was going to have damaging side effects for the world.”

It appears it’s just cutting its losses on money-losing endeavors like fracking in America, tar sands oil production in Canada, and frontier exploration by U.K. companies in Africa and South-East Asia.

After months of protest, the government scaled back its plans – at least temporarily.

Offshore oil drilling: regularly disastrous – and unnecessary.