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Tom Engelhardt: Terracide and the Terrarists

2013-05-23T10:05:44Z

To destroy our planet with malice aforethought, with only the most immediate profits on the brain, with only your own comfort and wellbeing (and those of your shareholders) in mind: Isn't that the ultimate crime?

Read more: Climate Change, Bp, Oil and Gas, Carbon, Terracide, Oil Industry, Terrarists, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Global Warming, Oil Companies, Green News

SidneyAnne Stone: The Afghan-China Connection

2013-05-22T16:21:17Z

So, why we still have troops in Afghanistan? The list of reasons are endless, depending on whom you ask. One might even say the United States is keeping troops in Afghanistan as a way of maintaining leverage over China due to our recently acquired debt.

Read more: Afghan Poppy Crop, Opium Trade, Poppy, Afghanistan, Oil, Afghanistan Opium, Opium, China, China Debt, World News

Paul Abrams: Budget Offsets to Pay for Tornado Relief: End Subsidies to Oil Companies

2013-05-21T15:28:27Z

Ending oil industry subsidies to pay for clean-up and restitution from a climate catastrophe feels fitting. It will raise the money to satisfy Coburn, and make a point that cannot be overemphasized.

Read more: Wind, Coburn, Climate, Solar, Subsidies, Budget Offsets, Oil Companies, Tornado, Tom Coburn Tornado Aid, Tom Coburn Budget Offsets, Moore Oklahoma Tornado Tom Coburn, Moore Oklahoma Tornado, Tom Coburn Tornado, Politics News

Daniel_Kaufmann: Trillions of Dollars in Oil, Gas and Mining Revenue Still Shrouded in Secrecy

2013-05-20T18:15:56Z

Secrecy still prevails in how natural resources are managed, and this conspires against economic development. The lives of over a billion citizens could be transformed if their governments managed their oil, gas and minerals in a more open, accountable manner.

Read more: Corruption, Oil, Gas, Copper, Mining, Business News

Gas Prices Jumped 11 Cents Over The Past Two Weeks

2013-05-20T11:48:31Z

CAMARILLO, Calif. -- The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 11 cents over the past two weeks.

The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices r...

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Badr Jafar: New Energy Policies in the Middle East Must Go Hand in Hand With Subsidy Reform

2013-05-19T15:28:47Z

The Middle East has amongst the highest average per capita energy consumption of any region in the world, at twice the global average. There are major consequences of the Middle East's high energy intensity and reliance on oil.

Read more: Oil, Natural Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Emissions, Middle East, Energy, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Middle East Energy, Arab Oil, World News

Amanda Greene: The Science of Frying

2013-05-16T15:54:39Z

How simple hot oil transforms everyday foods into sinful delights!

Read more: Plantains, Breading, Deep Fry, Recipes, Batters, Fried Chicken, Oil, Cooking Basics, Food Science, Back to Basics, Cooking Techniques, Fried Food, Frying, Taste News

Women & Co: Pennies & Petroleum: Spending Wisely at the Pump

2013-05-16T14:33:27Z

It's the phrase that you dread to hear, and yet there it is, on the news, in the paper, and at the water cooler. Gas prices stink. Still, we line up at the pumps and we fill up week after week, day after day -- because in the end, what choice to you have?

Read more: Fuel, Driving, Gas, Car, Fuel Economy, Money@123, Jody DeVere, High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Business News

Raymond J. Learsy: EU's Oil Probe Years Overdue. Targets Wrong Benchmark

2013-05-16T08:04:14Z

The European antitrust authorities have finally carried out inspections of oil firms in three countries as well as the offices of the price-index publisher Platts, to determine if they distorted published prices of crude oil and petroleum products. It is a first step, long overdue, but it targets the wrong benchmark.

Read more: Oil Traders, Commodity Exchanges, Brent Crude, Oil, European Union, Banks, Wall Street Journal, Oil Companies, Platts, Business News

Bad News For Climate Change Policy

2013-05-15T08:16:17Z

Oil isn't likely to peak any time soon. And that's bad news for climate policy....

Read more: Oil, Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Warming, Green News

The Reason Americans Are Driving Less

2013-05-14T17:21:01Z

By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Americans are driving less than they used to because of higher gasoline price...

Read more: Gas Prices, Milennials, Driving, Millennials, Reuters, Millennials Driving, Economic Recovery, Business News

Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

2013-05-13T09:37:50Z

Too often the news media have provided a platform for fossil fuel industry-funded think tanks and advocacy groups to make spurious claims about global warming and renewable energy and allowed them to pass themselves off as disinterested parties promoting free markets and limited government.

Read more: Npr, Rex Tillerson, Koch Brothers, Exxon Mobil, Renewable Energy, Green News, Koch Industries, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Wind Power, Union of Concerned Scientists, Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, Solar Power, Media News

Felipe Ángel: Is Colombia Suffering the Dutch Disease?

2013-05-10T11:12:01Z

Despite the global economic situation, Colombia has shown resilience to external shocks in recent years, with reasonable economic performance in its region, in part due to responsible monetary policies conducted by the Central Bank.

Read more: Imports, Gdp, Central Bank, Trade, Investment, Colombia, Economy, Exports, Employment, Oil, Monetary Policy, Gdp Growth, Fdi, Revaluation, World News

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: How Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy

2013-05-10T09:04:24Z

With cash gushers of oily money cascading down their open gullets, the Republican leadership's mercenary devotion to Big Oil shouldn't shock us. However, the boldness of the party's most recent assault on the public interest might cause us to ponder how GOP's honchos' knee jerk slavishness to petroleum interest has infected its rank and file.

Read more: Gas Prices, Congress, Gas, Oil Industry, Big Oil, Epa, Oil, Environment, 113th Congress, Gina McCarthy EPA, David Vitter, Gina McCarthy, Green News

Dr. James Hansen: Norway, Canada, the United States and the Tar Sands

2013-05-10T08:41:32Z

If infrastructure, such as the Keystone XL pipeline, is built to transport tar sands, ways will be developed to extract more and more. When full accounting is done of emissions from tar sands oil, its use is equivalent to burning coal to power your automobile.

Read more: Oil, Tar Sands, Canada Tar Sands, Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL, Carbon Emissions, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News

Marcelo Giugale: What on Earth Are 'Commodity Super-Cycles' and Why Do They Matter?

2013-05-09T08:58:47Z

Whatever happens to the price of those commodities matters a great deal for development and, even more, for the war on poverty. The problem is that those prices are famously volatile.

Read more: Gas Prices, Commodities, Cycles, Developing Countries, Oil, Industrial Policy, Minerals, Development, Economic Diversification, China, Fiscal Policy, World News

Adam Greenberg: The Youth Climate Vote: A New Force in Electoral Politics

2013-05-08T11:00:57Z

It has become clear that Keystone pipeline is a threat to jobs, health and safety, energy security, food and water security, smart growth, and the climate -- but that's not all it threatens: Now, Keystone XL is becoming toxic for politicians who support it.

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Dorian de Wind: Ecuador's El Oriente : A Paradise Still at Risk

2013-05-06T16:14:36Z

About two years ago, I wrote about the idyllic weeks and months I spent as a child in Ecuador's "el Oriente." El Oriente is Ecuador's magnificent ju...

Read more: The Amazon Region, Environment, Ecuador, Ecuador President Rafael Correa, Big Oil, Yasuni ITT Trust Fund, Yasuni National Park, Unesco, Video, Green News

Tim Profeta: The Climate Post: U.S. Oil Reserves Higher Than Previously Thought

2013-05-03T12:14:36Z

Carbon dioxide levels in excess of 400 parts per million have already been recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, but they tend to fluctuate hourly. The milestone is significant because it illustrates how dramatically humans have altered the atmosphere in a few generations, says Mother Nature Network.

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Conor Kennedy: A Bad Bargain

2013-05-02T14:14:42Z

Mark Zuckerberg has in the past been eloquent in his support for transitioning from fossil fuels to knowledge-powered and New Energy economies. Now that his financial ties to the pro tar sands advertisements are public knowledge, many of us hope he will disassociate himself from their dubious content.

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Carl Pope: Big Oil's Yellow Submarine

2013-04-29T18:23:42Z

Every serious nation except the U.S. has an energy policy -- we need one. Obama's economic advisers appear not to want to even discuss the idea.

Read more: White House, Oil Industry, Carbon Emissions, Low Carbon Fuel Standards, Epa, Oil Prices, Keystone Pipeline, Chevron, Cng, Sierra Club, State Department, Barack Obama, Green News

WATCH: A Majority Of U.S. Transit Is Still Reliant On Oil

2013-04-28T11:05:08Z

From Face the Facts USA:

93 percent of U.S. transport remains reliant on oil.

As Earth Week 2013 continues we turn to one of the root causes of ...

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - April 25, 2013

2013-04-25T18:34:17Z

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Democracy Now!: Earth Day Exclusive: Tim DeChristopher Speaks Out After 21 Months in Prison for Disrupting Oil Bid

2013-04-22T15:42:40Z

In a Democracy Now! exclusive on Earth Day, climate change activist Tim DeChristopher joins Democracy Now! for his first interview since being release...

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Frank Vogl: A Blow Against Corruption as Oil, Gas and Mining Global Transparency Advances

2013-04-22T10:55:47Z

Shining a bright light on the global operations of major multinational corporations, including details of the cash they pay to foreign governments, will not end corruption. But, it is a very good start on a long and vital journey.

Read more: Corruption, Gas, Extractive-Industry, Iraq, Bribery, US Congress, Eu, Gazprom, Anti-Corruption, Kuwait, European Parliament, Indonesia, Mining, Saudi Arabia, Oil, Senator Lugar, Exxon, World News