Some water treatment plants refuse to take fracking fluid
Good for them! Until we know more about what flows out the other end and what is effective at keeping the population safe, more wastewater treatment plants should refuse to take this fracking...
View ArticleZipCar IPO...
...and the sharing economy:Without getting too deep into it here, because I have a forthcoming post that does, Zipcar is representative of a MONSTER trend that is taking place within our economy right...
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Whatever happened to DRILL BABY DRILL?
Bob Dudley In the last few months, we have shut down several platforms to request modifications consistent with BP's standards. One of these was our Holstein platform in the Gulf of Mexico, which was...
View ArticleWhy oh why...
Would we ever want to change the frame from climate change is really really bad, scientists say so to energy efficiency will give us jobs and fun new toys to play with?Hmmh.
View ArticleDear President Obama,
We stopped calling them "deniers." Preferring to call them rejectionists insteadWhen you call them deniers, you stir up all sorts of pond scum, and don't insult them adequately enough.Sincerely,Coeruleus
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Not so green
As a general rule, if you can spot the disconnect on the title page of a report [PDF]...... the rest of it might contain some factual errors. Senior executives in the fossil fuel industry have launched...
View ArticleSUPERTRAINS
Guess what! They might not be so unpopular after all: Fueled by higher gas prices and what state transportation officials say is greater awareness, the number of Amtrak riders has exploded on the Blue...
View ArticleClimategate
As expected, Kate Shepard does an excellent job summarizing that crazy time. Though I feel she lets journalists off a little too easy. I downloaded the hacked e-mails as well, and it took me all of one...
View ArticleThe real climate alarmists...
...are not the Green Dragons: One of the most disturbing arguments made by Religious Right in its defense of corporations and big polluters is the claim that environmental protections are intended to...
View ArticleThat's OK, go ahead and drill
We'll just sit here and watch. [the website won't allow me to C&P, so go to the link to read it.]Basically, Ohio is missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of severance tax revenue (taxes...
View ArticleDonald Trump's balanced energy policy
Is this what they mean by an "all of the above" energy strategy? In other words, because OPEC controls the price of crude oil, all we need to do is tell OPEC to reduce oil prices and Ta-Da! – cheap...
View ArticleThe Dunes Sagebrush Lizard is the new Spotted Owl
I Canadian oil suppressing demand for your oil at an already overloaded oil storage facility, thereby driving prices down and threatening your profitability?No problem! Blame it on an Endangered...
View ArticleBut...but...speculators are innocent bystanders!
Weigel on why the DOJ needs to look at oil price speculation at this time, and the problems associated with doing so:None of this would be particularly easy for American politicians. Is there anything...
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I do hope Trump doesn't lose focus on what really matters
Releasing Obama's college transcripts.
View ArticleA heartwarming video
at Dogwork. For the weekend, and because I'm a little busy these next couple of days.
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Kidz Koal Korner
What's funny about the Coal Cares spoof website is how well it emulates the real highest-quality BS coming out of so-called "free market" think tanks and fossil fuel lobbying groups. Anyone who could...
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Because I am who I am...
...I look at the raw data first.Yesterday, the right wing media was all in a tizzy about a report [PDF] describing long waiting times in Massachusetts for primary care physician appointments. Of course...
View ArticleMethane leaks
This is preposterousTheir work updates earlier findings that unaccounted-for gas amounted to eight billion cubic feet in Massachusetts, costing about $40 million. Such gas leaks have been implicated in...
View ArticleThis is good news
We're producing more renewable energy than we can use!PORTLAND, Ore. – The manager of most of the electricity in the Pacific Northwest is running such a surplus of power from hydroelectric dams that it...
View ArticleJon Huntsman: I will not run for President in 2012
He may as well have said exactly that.I'm not a meteorologist. All I know is 90 percent of the scientists say climate change is occurring. If 90 percent of the oncological community said something was...
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