Former Dept. of Justice Official Says Exxon News Worsens Liability Picture
The former Department of Justice lawyer who led the watershed lawsuit against tobacco companies, says that the news out today about oil giant ExxonMobil knowing as early as 1981 about the threat posed by climate …
“Are Coal, Oil and Gas the Subprime Assets of the Future?”
That question was actually asked by British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey last year, and its ramifications are extensively explored in a provocative report released today by the Center for …
Willie Soon: Conflicted Climate Science and Role of Science Journals
Media Update – coverage of the report below: Science Magazine – “Journals investigate climate skeptic author’s ties to fossil fuel firm as new allegations arise“, by David Malakoff Inside Climate News – “Willie Soon’s Fossil Fuel-Funded …
This is Your Planet on Heartland Institute Drugs
Jay Lehr, one of Heartland Institute’s looser cannons, and there are a lot of loose cannons on this reckless pirate ship… Lehr laid out his vision for stopping “global warming insanity” at today’s Heartland Institute …
Peabody’s Five Point Plan for Getting the World to Adapt To Peabody
When a coal company chief executive officer offers a decarbonization plan, it means one of two things. One, he has finally seen the light, and realizes that coal is irremediably dirty. Or two, this is …
The Anti-Environmental Archives launch on Earth Day 2015
To celebrate 2015 Earth Day, we have just released a huge, online, and searchable archive of documents on anti-environmental campaigns, individuals involved in these campaigns and the corporations that back them. The Anti-Environmental Archives, now …
Are Climate Deniers Retreating or Doubling Down? Heartland and ALEC can’t decide
Are climate deniers in retreat? We think not. But Heartland and ALEC seem to be speaking from both sides of their mouths the days. Flip flopping for sure. This week has seen a bizarre collection of …
Southern Company Dumps Climate Denier Willie Soon
The Washington Post broke the news yesterday that Southern Company confirmed it is dropping the contract with Dr. Willie Soon at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. But not immediately…at the end of the current 2015 contract. …
Alabama Power: No Public Oversight, No Plan, No Relief in Sight
What happens when a politically powerful utility is allowed to spend its customers’ money without any public accountability for over thirty years? In Alabama, billions went to upgrade coal-fired power plants that are approaching – …
BP Leaves ALEC, Shades of Global Climate Coalition Defections
In what could be a throwback to the 1990s, the National Journal just broke that British Petroleum (BP) has quit the American Legislative Exchange Council today, saying ALEC membership was not needed to pursue its interests. …