Peak oil: Saudi Aramco CEO says oil shortage is coming. Discoveries and...
The CEO of Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser, recently told a conference in Istanbul that the world is heading toward an oil supply shortage as a result of falling discoveries of new conventional oil...
View ArticleYouth activists stand against Oregon pipeline
It’s youth of today vs energy of the past in Oregon today. Youth climate justice leaders from Oregon and California, including plaintiffs in the climate action lawsuit Juliana v. US. (supported by Our...
View ArticleRick Perry holds back Energy Department Grid Study. Sierra Club sues.
Sierra Club sued the Department of Energy (DOE) today for the agency’s repeated delays in providing information on Rick Perry’s ongoing grid study, amid suspicion that draft versions of the study may...
View ArticleYears Project Video: FERC is poised to get a lot more powerful (& that’s bad...
Most Americans don’t think about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) much, but the agency has a lot more power over their lives than they might realize. FERC plays a big role in deciding...
View ArticleReturn of the Enron energy ripoff – coming soon to California?
A report unveiled by Consumer Watchdog, “Betting Against The House,” warns of “Enron all over again” as Governor Jerry Brown and electricity-deregulation era fixers are poised to rip off California...
View ArticleNatural gas: Fuel for the future or bridge to nowhere?
Natural gas has long been called a “bridge fuel” to renewable energy due to its presumed lower emissions rates. What industry representatives at last month’s World Gas Conference in Washington failed...
View ArticleTaking California back to the bad old Enron days – Just say NO to AB 813!
A press conference and rally on the south steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento Wednesday featured actors playing Governor Jerry Brown and President Donald Trump lying together in a bed full of oil...
View ArticleWhy shouldn’t we store highly-pressurized gas under our homes and...
Environmental leaders from the Protect Playa Now! coalition issued a statement on January 22 demanding answers and accountability for a methane gas blowout at a well in the Playa del Rey Oil Field,...
View ArticleChevron jumps on bandwagon, aligns business strategy with Paris Climate...
US-based oil and gas major Chevron has attempted to undercut a shareholder rebellion by announcing plans to align its business strategy with the Paris Climate Agreement, vowing to cut greenhouse gas...
View ArticleAs science shows fracking drives methane pollution, big oil says voluntary...
Last week,, a pair of studies showed that the amount of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere has risen to record levels, and that while globally agriculture remains a key source of...
View ArticleHow the natural gas industry is ‘Weaponizing equity amidst a climate crisis’
Earlier this month when the NAACP published a report on how the fossil fuel industry throws money around to exert its power and get what it wants (more money and power, so more pollution) we used Mike...
View ArticleThe US biofuel mandate helps farmers, but does little for energy security and...
If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade, you’ve put biofuel in your tank. Thanks to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, almost all gasoline sold nationwide is...
View ArticleEnergy lawyer inadvertently admits fossil fuel industry is incompatible with...
In the past couple years, we’ve grown bored of pointing out that — despite its inexplicably positive reputation for aggregating polls — the Koch-sponsored RealClear media brand, and particularly the...
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