While the world discusses climate protection in Copenhagen, a climate disaster looms in the Rocky Mountain West: a resurgence of interest in oil sha...
Michael Brune | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green
Canada's efforts to protect its dirty interests in the Alberta tar sands has put it on a collision course with world efforts to stop global warming.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
In the end, unfolding like a chilling and disturbing thriller, Climate Cover-Up is about one of the greatest campaigns of misinformation in our time.
Bob Dinneen | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
It is inconceivable that an honest and transparent accounting of the carbon emissions of petroleum when compared to those of ethanol would somehow be lower. It defies logic, reason, and most of all, facts.
Michael Brune | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
Tar sands oil production is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada and was recently cited as one of the most important reasons Canada will miss its Kyoto targets by over 30%.
Bob Dinneen | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Just when we thought policymakers were serious about climate change, the State Department approves construction of a new petroleum pipeline with the sole purpose of importing tar sands oil to the U.S.
Bob Dinneen | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green
While the indirect, ripple impacts of our dependence on petroleum fuels are often well hidden, to ignore them altogether is irresponsible policy and questionable science.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
In today's audio report: China & the U.S., together again
Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
Americans don't understand the environmental and human consequences of feeding our insatiable appetite for fuel from closer to home: Canada.
Todd Paglia | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green
Canada wants to send destructive crude oil our way via new pipelines that will run straight through our heartland. And Canada is teaming up with Big Oil to make this "dream" come true.
Michael Brune | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green
There's a stealth dirty oil project sneaking into the U.S. It's called the Canadian Tar Sands, or as the oil industry prefers, Canadian Oil Sands. And it's being brought to you by Sarah Palin and ExxonMobil.
Michael Brune | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green
An unlikely transnational coalition is putting Chevron on the defensive for exploiting the Ecuadorian people.
Giles Slade | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green
But replacing Arabia's tainted oil with tar sand bitumen is no pipeline to energy security. It's more like switching your family's mortgage from Countrywide Financial to Bear Stearns.
Ben Jervey | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green
If more people understood the conditions on the ground in Northern Alberta, the outcry against this dirtiest of fossil fuels would be a lot harder to ignore.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 03.21.2009 | World
Tomorrow President Obama is traveling to Canada. Prime Minister Harper wants to discuss giving Canada's dirty tar sands fuel a pass from greenhouse gas limits.
AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
OTTAWA — President Barack Obama, in advance of his first foreign trip, said Tuesday that Canada's oil sands operations leave a carbon foot print...
Susan Cosier | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green
Harvesting oil sands in Alberta could impact up to 170 million birds that breed in the boreal.
David Sassoon | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green
To hear Brian Williams take a clean shot at dirty coal seemed like a signal heralding a great thaw of a long media Ice Age that has prohibited honest reporting on the fossil fuel industry.
David Sassoon | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green
Buffet and Soros are men who could be showing us the way out of an endless fossil future. Instead, it looks like these men are showing us the opportunistic face of business-as-usual.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
These are times when the economy is sinking, global warming is looming, and our oil addiction is undermining national security. We need our leaders to propel America into a safer, cleaner, more sustainable energy future.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green
Our nation's oil addiction is hobbling economic growth and consumer spending power.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.12.2008 | Media
U.S. mayors resolve to avoid burning dirty tar sands oil, Bush signs $162B war spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, Afghanistan civilian death toll rises sharply, Scalia still blames Gore for the 2000 election debacle.
The Denver Post | Posted 12.18.2009 | Denver