Fossil Fuels

By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – A report by a private research company found that U.S. emissions, which amount to one-sixth of the planet’s, didn’t fall in 2018 but instead skyrocketed. The 3.4 percent jump for 2018, projected by the firm, would be second-largest surge in greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. since […]

Environmentalism

Ireland To Become First Country to Divest From Fossil Fuels

TeleSur

Ireland’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that will require the country to divest all of its shares in fossil fuel companies

Climate Change

Sea Level Rise Speeding up as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels

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TeleSur | – – The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans. Sea level rise is accelerating and could reach 66 centimeters by century’s end, in line with United Nations estimates and enough to cause […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s Plan to use Fossil Fuels to dominate the Globe

Michael T. Klare

( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The new U.S. energy policy of the Trump era is, in some ways, the oldest energy policy on Earth. Every great power has sought to mobilize the energy resources at its command, whether those be slaves, wind-power, coal, or oil, to further its hegemonic ambitions. What makes the Trumpian variant […]

Fossil Fuels

It is all about the Oil: US Diplomats on Mideast Obsession

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By Edward Hunt | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of the American Empire in the Middle East In recent testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing a number of […]

Corruption

Why Israel doesn’t run on Solar: Netanyahu’s son boasts of father’s gas deal at strip club

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Middle East Monitor | – – A recording emerged yesterday of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair boasting that his father had set up a $20 billion business deal for businessman and gas tycoon Kobi Maimon. Published by the Israel Television News Company, the report has stirred renewed controversy at a time when Netanyahu […]

Coal

Civilized UK, rebuking Trump on Coal, now 30% Wind Powered

Juan Cole

Even Wyoming is bailing on Coal, putting in huge Wind Farms

Fossil Fuels

Oil Giants’ $180 Bn Binge on Plastics to Permanently Pollute Oceans

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TeleSur | – – Major chemical and petroleum companies knew about the copious amounts of water pollution caused by them as far back as the 1970’s. Oil giants will put colossal funding in plastic production raising the production by 40 percent over the next decade, and in turn risking a “permanent pollution” scenario in water […]

Donald Trump

Navajo Nation to Sue Trump over Shrinking Bears Ears Monument

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TeleSur | – – The Navajo Nation has vowed to sue U.S. President Donald Trump over his decision to shrink Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent. Hundreds of people – including native tribe, the Navajo, and others – along with environmentalists gathered in Washington to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s damning decision to […]