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Most global warming pollution comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) including driving cars and trucks. Any serious effort to deal with global warming must involve changes in the way we use and produce energy, including the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles.
The most recent report by the Intergovernmental [...]
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Ninth Circuit Court halts exploration amid concerns over environmental harms
August 15, 2007
San Francisco, CA — Shell Offshore Inc. — which was on the verge of oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea — cannot proceed until the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decides whether environmental harms were properly considered by the federal agency that gave Shell [...]
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Russian geologists claim that they have found a link between Russia and the North pole in the form of the Lomonosov Ridge, a geological feature on the sea floor. Because of this, they claim 460,000 square miles of ocean as Russian territory. However, their claims have been knocked back by the UN before, in 2001. [...]
EarthJustice
Stay temporarily halts Shell’s offshore plans in Beaufort Sea
July 20, 2007
San Francisco, CA — Late yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit entered a stay temporarily halting Shell Offshore Inc.’s plans to drill several exploratory oil wells in the middle of the bowhead whale migration corridor.”This is a great relief to [...]
Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune broke the story of an unimaginably nasty little Faustian bargain the State of Indiana has entered into with BP. The absurdity of the details makes one’s head spin. In short, BP is to be allowed to dump more pollution into Lake Michigan (see BP gets break on dumping in lake). As [...]
Critics of President George W Bush’s 6 plus years of inaction on global climate change have long suspected the lurking shadow of Big Oil behind his administration’s tactics of delay and denial. Now comes the proof of petroleum’s greasy little fingerprints all over Bush’s energy policy, thanks to the revealing article The Secret Campaign of [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Alaskan Wildlife-Rich Coastal Land Eroding Because of Disappearing Ice.
By Yereth Rosen, Reuters, July 2, 2007.
“A swath of marshy, wildlife-rich coastal land in Arctic Alaska being eyed for oil drilling is eroding rapidly probably because of the disappearance of sea ice that used to protect it from the ocean waves, according to [...]
The Ocean Conservancy’s Strategic Priority # 3: Conserve Special Ocean Places
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A majority of ocean scientists agree that marine protected areas are proven tools for conserving ocean ecosystems. Both the Pew Oceans Commission and the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy endorsed the increased use of marine protected areas and marine reserve networks. Nevertheless, marine protected [...]
From: EarthJustice
Agency accused in federal court of breaking promise to protect wilderness
June 28, 2007
Denver, CO — The Bureau of Land Management is sacrificing the wilderness qualities of thousands of acres in western Colorado by granting oil and gas leases on South Shale Ridge, Earthjustice attorney Keith Bauerle argued today (6/28/2007) in federal district court. Earthjustice, [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
Senate Adopts a Compromise Energy Bill Raising Mileage for Cars, But Gives in to Oil Interests. By Edmund L. Andrews, The New York Times, June 22, 2007. “The Senate passed a broad energy bill that would, among other things, require the first big increase in fuel mileage requirements for passenger cars in more [...]
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