Fossil Fuels

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

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

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

contributors

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 […]

Climate Change

Our heat trapping gas Emissions hit Record High in Planetary Threat

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The Conversation: Pep Canadell, CSIRO; Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia; Glen Peters, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo; Robbie Andrew, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo; Rob Jackson, Stanford University, and Vanessa Haverd, CSIRO Global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels and industry are on track to grow […]

Coal

Oil & Coal & Crop Burning turn Delhi into ‘Gas Chamber’ of Air Pollution

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The Watchers | – – The Indian Medical Association declared a public health emergency on Tuesday, November 7, 2017, as toxic smog engulfed Indian capital Delhi. In some areas, Air Quality Index (AQI) reached a maximum of 999 and went beyond what instruments could measure. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the smoke-laden air […]

Africa

Rick Perry has it Backwards: Oil causes Mass Rape

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Somehow Secretary of Energy Rick Perry managed to find Africa, and while he was there, he learned that a lot of people don’t have electricity. In a news conference this week, he expressed the opinion that fossil fuels would prevent sexual assault. Perry said, assaulting and […]

Climate Change

Climate Emergency: Heat Trapping Gases make largest Jump in recorded history

Juan Cole

TeleSur | (Informed Comment) | – – Carbon dioxide or CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have reached unprecedented high levels, a United Nations watchdog group reports, warning that urgent measures are needed to achieve the targets set by the Paris climate agreement and avoid cataclysmic changes in the earth’s climate conditions. “Concentrations of carbon dioxide […]

Fossil Fuels

Oklahoma’s Ominous Earthquakes: the Price of Fracking (Video)

Juan Cole

Hydraulic Fracturing implicated in severe seismic activity and plus it releases heat-trapping gas methane

Coal

Kurdish Independence: SecState Tillerson opposes, Sen Schumer Supports

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – According to the Kurdish news site Rudaw, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson weighed in on the Kurdistan referendum on independence from Iraq, held last Monday, saying it is illegitimate and the US does not recognize it. The statement of the Department of State said, “The vote […]