I think Pipeline Watchdog might be a new federal job we think about having down here. Canada has one, and he’s not happy with various extraction companies, many of whom seem to be buying their pipeline parts from the international pipeline parts firm of Shyster and Flywheel.
Exxon Mobil Corp. is stepping up efforts to promote a tax on carbon to address man-made climate change, which is both a welcome move and a politically astute one.
America’s warm, wild and costly weather broke another record with the hottest June, federal meteorologists say. And if that’s not enough, they calculated that 2016 is flirting with the U.S. record for most billion-dollar weather disasters.
Gas is cheap, and Californians are putting more miles on the road. That’s bad news for those hoping the state can make a difference in the world’s fight against climate change.
Then the big storm will come, as it always does. It might come this year, it might come in 2018, 2029 or 20-whatever.
Saudi Arabia has a big advantage because its oil is cheap to produce and largely unregulated. The same cannot be said about the United States, where the shale oil industry is being slowly asphyxiated by the collapse in oil prices over the last two years.
A balanced financial budget makes good sense for a household, and a balanced carbon budget makes good sense for the planet—in fact, it’s a fundamental part of our climate strategy.
There are signs the deep freeze in oil-industry spending is beginning to thaw.
The Paris climate deal, negotiated late last year, needs ratification from 55 parties accounting for at least 55 percent of global emissions before it kicks into effect — and the 28-member EU, which must ratify as a bloc, makes up the third-largest slice of the emissions pie.
The auto industry is waiting for a new report from federal regulators that will be used to determine whether stringent gas mileage rules requiring them to produce car and truck fleets that average more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025 will stay in place.
