House Republicans Say Oil Spill Prevention Rule Should Be Easier On Oil Companies

Almost five years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill sent millions of barrels of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration announced a set of new offshore drilling rules that it hoped would prevent another massive oil spill. Now, as those rules appear to be racing towards finalization, House Republicans are asking the administration to revise the rules to lessen the burden on the oil industry....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/04/3766124/offshore-drilling-republican-revision/

Keystone XL's Older Pipeline Twin Spills Oil In South Dakota

Pipeline operator TransCanada shut down a section of its Keystone pipeline Sunday after about 187 gallons of crude oil spilled from the line in South Dakota, an accident that environmental groups say highlights the dangers of shipping oil by pipeline....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/04/3766363/keystone-pipeline-spills/

British Columbia’s Carbon Tax Has Been So Successful That Businesses Want To Increase It

A carbon tax may be a controversial topic in the United States, but in one Canadian province, this eight-year-old policy has been such a success that on Wednesday more than 100 businesses said they support a tax increase...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/31/3765312/canadian-business-support-carbon-tax-increase/

Fueling Fascism: The Secret History of How Texaco Supplied Oil to Fascists in Spain

http://democracynow.org - While thousands of Americans fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, some chose to back Franco’s fascist regime. The most notable was the CEO of the American oil giant Texaco. He violated U.S. law by selling Franco’s regime discounted oil on credit. Also in violation of U.S. law, the oil was transported to Spain on U.S. ships. For more on this remarkable story, we’re joined by Adam Hochschild, the author of the sweeping new history book, "Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/ROe6oNRoJHY

Rockefeller Family Fund to Divest From ExxonMobil, Says Oil Giant Is 'Morally Reprehensible'

"There is no sane rationale for companies to continue to explore for new sources of hydrocarbons."
http://www.alternet.org/environment/rockefeller-family-fund-divest-exxonmobil-says-oil-giant-morally-reprehensible

Millions Of Americans Are Living In Areas That Are At Risk From Human-Caused Earthquakes

Six states are particularly at risk from human-caused earthquakes, according to the USGS...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/28/3763910/usgs-maps-earthquake-risk-fracking/

Real Time with Bill Maher: Mark Ruffalo - The Whole Nation is Flint (HBO)

Waterdefense.org founder and "Spotlight" actor Mark Ruffalo calls California's reputation as an environmentally progressive state into question on the February 26, 2016 episode of Real Time...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/gWcuYn4gQZ4

Lawmakers Call For An Investigation Into Shell’s Climate Policies

Three Democratic lawmakers have sent a letter to the Justice Department calling for an investigation into whether Royal Dutch Shell knowingly misled the public about the dangers of climate change...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/19/3751279/shell-climate-investigation/

Peruvian Oil Spill Prompts Water Emergency For Thousands

Peru’s General Directorate of Environmental Health issued the water quality emergency Wednesday, more than three weeks after the first rupture was reported on January 25. The second spill, which came from a different section of the same pipeline, took place on February 3, further extending plumes of oil and affecting the livelihood of communities that rely on fishing and agriculture...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/19/3751281/oil-spill-in-the-amazon/

House Bill Seeks To Stop Fossil Fuel Development On Federal Lands

We have no more margin, and that’s what this bill recognizes...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/11/3748675/house-keep-it-in-the-ground-introduced/

Trump's 1st Question To NatSec Team: What Do We Want To Do?

"Take the wealth away. Attack the oil and keep the oil," Trump said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-first-3-questions-national-security

Keystone XL May Be Dead, But Oil Companies Are Still Trying To Seize Americans’ Land For Pipelines

As it first announced in 2014, the company wants to build a pipeline that would transport oil from North Dakota’s oil-rich Bakken Formation, to a market hub located near Patoka, Illinois...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/09/3747286/bakken-pipeline-eminent-domain/

New report says the West Coast could cut its oil use in half by 2030 - CSMonitor.com

"We don't need a lot of fancy new technologies or breakthrough inventions to dramatically reduce our need for oil," said a UCS blog post announcing the report's release...
http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2016/0205/New-report-says-the-West-Coast-could-cut-its-oil-use-in-half-by-2030

'Hidden History' Of Koch Brothers Traces Their Childhood And Political Rise (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)

"These are the groups that are called 'dark money groups,' and they thus become kind of secret banks that affect American politics in a huge way without most people understanding who is behind them."
Interview:
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463565987/hidden-history-of-koch-brothers-traces-their-childhood-and-political-rise

Marco Rubio Is Ready And Willing To Let Florida Drown

Marco Rubio still doesn’t think that human activity is responsible for climate change, even as his home state of Florida braces for utter destruction as a result.

Rubio, who represents the climate change-imperiled state of Florida in the U.S. Senate, has taken a lot of heat for denying the role that humans are playing in climate change, but at the same time, he has received partial credit for acknowledging that the climate is changing. Rubio’s semantic trickery is not an admission that he believes in climate change. It is simply a tool that allows him to play both sides. He can construe his statement to “prove” that he accepts the reality of climate change, or he can downplay its meaning and say that he was referring to something as simple as weather patterns.

In either scenario, Rubio comes out the winner. His denial of the role of human beings will be forgotten quickly, and all that will remain on the record is his statement that the climate is always changing.
https://youtu.be/IFbnJJU7vFc

Canada Just Announced A Major Pipeline Reform | ThinkProgress

Pipelines and natural gas export terminals proposed in the country will now be subject to a climate test, which will seek to determine how the project will impact greenhouse gas emissions, Canadian officials announced Wednesday. That test will take into account the “upstream” impacts of a project — meaning the emissions from the extraction of the oil or gas that the pipeline would carry or the gas the terminal would store — as well as the emissions created from building and maintaining the project...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/28/3743272/canada-new-pipeline-climate-test/

What Sarah Palin Really Wants From Her Donald Trump Endorsement

Does the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate want anything in return? Most likely, yes — Palin, who popularized the term “drill, baby, drill,” has said she’d like to be Trump’s Secretary of Energy. And Trump has said he’d be willing to give Palin a position in his cabinet, should he be elected president...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/01/19/3740724/sarah-palin-donald-trump-endorsement/

Oklahoma Residents Sue Energy Companies Over Earthquake Damage

“As a direct and proximate result of defendants’ negligence, plaintiffs have suffered and will continue to suffer severe and permanent damage to their persons and property,” the lawsuit states. This damage includes “cracked and broken interior and exterior walls” and “movement of the foundations beneath their dwellings.” These damages have taken a toll on the residents psyches, too, causing “mental and emotional anguish, fear, and worry.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/12/3738417/oklahoma-earthquake-residents-lawsuit/

More People Work In U.S. Solar Industry Than In Oil And Gas Extraction

“It’s incredible,” SolarCity CEO and co-founder Lyndon Rive told ThinkProgress. “The industry employs over 200 thousand people — more than the coal industry.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/12/3737971/solar-job-growth/

There Will Be Chaos: Big Oil's Collapse and the Birth of a New World Order

The longer such price levels persist, the more devastating the consequences are likely to be...
http://www.alternet.org/economy/there-will-be-chaos-big-oils-collapse-and-birth-new-world-order