Bowing to pressure from Quaker environmentalists, PNC Bank announced yesterday that it will be restricting financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The shift outlined in its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report means PNC Bank will effectively cease its investment in this… Read More ›
Fossil fuels
Delaware-sized gas plume over West illustrates the cost of leaking methane
Delaware-sized gas plume over West illustrates the cost of leaking methane – The Washington Post/MSN News The country’s biggest methane “hot spot,” verified by NASA and University of Michigan scientists in October, is only the most dramatic example of what… Read More ›
The Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Almost Certainly Dead
The Keystone XL Pipeline project is almost certainly dead. No, not because a bill that would have finally given the go-ahead to begin construction fell one vote short in the lame duck Senate last month. Sure, that halted the legislative… Read More ›
‘Keystone XL Clone’ to Pump Tar Sands Oil Starting Next Year
By Anastasia Pantsios As Republicans get set to test their new majority in the U.S. Senate and their complete control of Congress to push through approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, a new investigative report by editor Lou Dubose at the… Read More ›
Photographer Captures Tar Sands Destruction From Above
The Huffington Post | By James Gerken Photographer and pilot Alex MacLean wanted to learn more about the Keystone XL pipeline, which if approved will carry oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, so he decided to take pictures from… Read More ›
Obama’s Global Warming Rule Leaks Early
The Environmental Protection Agency will debut draft regulations on Monday to cut carbon emissions from power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to multiple sources briefed on the proposal. The Wall Street Journal first reported details of… Read More ›