No environmental impacts seen in Wisconsin ethanol spill
Samples of water affected by Saturday’s derailment and ethanol spill show no risk to aquatic life.
Archive for month: November, 2015
The perverse connection between oil and women’s rights
Saudi Arabia. United Arab Emirates. Iran. Iraq. Kuwait. Nigeria. Qatar.
That may look like a list of seven random countries, but they all have something sinister in common. Namely, being generally awful places for women to live. Read more →
What critics of the Keystone campaign misunderstand about climate activism
The assumption has been that climate change is an “environmental issue” and that it is the job of environmentalists to fix it. It is the job of everyone else to tell them they are Doing It Wrong, to critique their methods, communication strategies, policy choices, and activist campaigns.
Earth is passing two critical global warming thresholds, scientists warn
The globe is set to pass a symbolic yet significant climate threshold in 2015 while careening into a new era of supercharged global warming, new data released Monday shows.
Following Gov. Brown, Californians seek oil records on their land
If Gov. Jerry Brown can have state employees check his family’s land for oil, so can you.
Saudi Arabia preparing to fuel its $100 billion oil war with debt
Saudi Arabia has probably spent around $100 billion of its foreign reserves by now to prosecute its war against American shale and other low-cost oil producers.
Bill McKibben on why Exxon is the next big climate fight
Environmental activist Bill McKibben is already moving on to his next big battle: making sure Exxon Mobil is held accountable for allegedly being aware, as early as the 1970s, of the effect its products had on climate change, while publicly keeping mum and even promoting a message of climate change denial.
Did Obama’s decision to nix the Keystone XL pipeline help save the world?
Key questions in the wake of the decision include what the Keystone fight has meant, and potentially will mean, for American environmentalism, as well as how it will come to define Obama’s legacy on climate change.
How we got the Exxon story
On the second day of a staff retreat last January, the InsideClimate News team planned to discuss possible investigative projects for the coming year. More than any of the reporters, publisher David Sassoon was eager to pitch his idea.
Jerry Brown’s hazy claim: L.A. ‘invents’ smog
Was Los Angeles the first city to create the noxious, eye-stinging, smudgy haze? Weren’t other industrial cities spewing thick black smoke and creating smog centuries ago? As it turns out, it depends on what you consider “smog.”
