Coal billionaires are the best people: Coal mines owned by billionaire James Justice II have been cited for more than 250 environmental violations in five states with unpaid penalties worth about $2 million, according to sources and records obtained by Greenwire. Violation notices -- including...
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Seals have far surpassed Americans in their support for offshore wind energy: The scientists observed eleven harbor seals outfitted with GPS tracking tags in the North Sea frequenting two active.
My dismay toward President Obama's decisions to open the ocean off the east coast to oil drilling cannot be overstated. This is a terrible decision that is in line with.
Worker deaths in the energy industry have risen dramatically over the past five years because of the oil and fracking booms. That's not necessary though. Better worker training would cut down on a lot of these accidents, but the companies, not facing harsh penalties from...
If you aren't familiar with Robert Bullard, the founder of the study of environmental justice as a line of academic inquiry, you should be. For over 30 years, Bullard has.
Let me recommend Trish Kahle's Jacobin piece on the Miners for Democracy (1970s reformist United Mine Workers members) and the potential of energy workers embracing environmentalism. Brief excerpt: Ultimately, the.
Rural New Mexico is a very interesting place. It's basically the only rural area of the United States that is militantly pro-Democratic. When I lived in Albuquerque and Santa Fe from 2000-07, I'd be driving up there and see "Bush is a Murderer" graffiti and...
The energy industry continues its war upon the people and ecology of Louisiana: Last summer, an independent government authority responsible for flood protection for the New Orleans area sued more.
A friend of mine saw this on a billboard outside of Boise. Not sure I really get this one except to say that people ideologically opposed to wind energy have.
The obvious reason we should build the Keystone XL Pipeline is that the inevitable spills will stimulate the economy since we have to clean them up. Kinder Morgan wants to spend $5.4 billion tripling the capacity of an oil pipeline between the tar sands of...
There's a certain set of commenters here who love to hate my energy posts because they say I oppose everything. That's not true at all. I don't fall in love.
69 years into the Nuclear Era and no one still has any solution on what to do with nuclear waste. It's one thing when we are talking about nuclear weapons.