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Video — Great Lakes and Invasives and Oil, Oh My!
Two of the greatest threats to the greatest of lakes – invasive species and submerged oil pipelines – were the subject of a Detroit public television legal affairs program on which I recently appeared. Among other things, Michigan Law School… Read more >
As Cleanup Continues, Oil Spreads 15 Miles Down Montana’s Yellowstone River
We’re now learning oil from last week’s Exxon Mobil pipeline rupture under Montana’s Yellowstone River has traveled much further downstream than the oil giant originally estimated. Read more >
Exxon Mobil Oil Pipeline Ruptures Under Montana’s Yellowstone River
Here’s an account of the oil spill along with pictures from NWF’s Alexis Bonogofsky, who lives on the Yellowstone River in Montana. Read more >
Big Oil Finally Catches a Break, Can Now Afford to Send Kids to College
Big Oil made big news on Wednesday when Exxon Mobil announced a major find in one of its Gulf of Mexico oil fields. Predictably, the industry and their friends in government are using the announcement to push for more drilling…. Read more >
Climate Capsule: Congress and Big Oil Battle It Out
This week’s stories: Highlight of the Week: Oil Execs Cry “Un-American” Quote: Steve Torbit, Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation’s Rocky Mountain region Economic Story of the Week: Cutting Carbon to Cut Costs Editorial of the Week: Climate Change Denial Becomes… Read more >
Polluters Lose in Clean Air Act Attack
Today, attempts to rollback parts of the Clean Air Act that direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address carbon pollution failed in the Senate. In a game of political hide-and-seek, varying polluter interests attempted to highjack a bill (S. 493)… Read more >
Big Oil Money Working to Rewrite History of Gulf Oil Disaster
The same groups who denied the link between cancer and smoking and deny the link between carbon pollution and global warming are now being enlisted to deny the impacts of the Gulf oil disaster. Read more >
Dirty Politics for Dirty Fuels
(as published in National Wildlife Federation’s National Wildlife, Aug/Sept. 2009) Many of you wrote letters and placed phone calls to your members of Congress in support of the American Clean Energy and Security Act to protect wildlife from global warming,… Read more >
The Real Underdogs
Desperately underfunded and hopelessly outgunned. There’s a real underdog in this climate fight. Think 1980 U.S. hockey team. Think Rocky. It’s ExxonMobil. That’s the consensus here at the Heartland Institute’s global warming denier conference. Ladies and gentlemen, I am not… Read more >
Heartland Institute: Following the Money Trail
Global warming deniers spare no expense. The Heartland Institute’s “2008 International Conference on Climate Change” is being held at the Marriott Grand Marquis Times Square. The seminars are spread over several floors and there are two sprawling suites reserved for… Read more >
