Dec 7, 2017 | Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Social Media News
By Itai Vardi Via DeSmogBlog Starting on Thursday, December 7, the state of Virginia’s Water Control Board will convene for three key meetings to decide the fate of a number of contentious pipeline projects. On the agenda: whether or not to grant a water...
Jul 21, 2017 | Climate Justice, Featured, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Indigenous Peoples, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs
By Steve Horn and Curtis Waltman Originally published at DeSmogBlog Behind the scenes, as law enforcement officials tried to stem protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, alumni from the George W. Bush White House were leading a crisis communications effort...
Feb 9, 2017 | Featured, Social Media News
GreenWire has reported that climate change denier Mike Catanzaro — a lobbyist for oil and gas companies Noble Energy, Devon Energy, Encana Oil and Gas, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and Hess Corporation — will soon become a top energy policy...
Dec 21, 2016 | Bioenergy, Featured, Social Media News
By Justin Mikulka Originally Published at DeSmogBlog.com Brian Stevens first learned about the Lac-Megantic disaster — in which an unattended oil train caught fire and exploded, killing 47 people in the Quebec town — when he saw the news reports on TV. Stevens...
Dec 9, 2016 | Featured, Fracking, Tar Sands & Pipelines, Social Media News, Videos
Asked for his take on President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), multi-billionaire investor and Trump business partner Carl Icahn told Bloomberg that Pruitt is...
