Manufacturers’ Group Attempts 11th Hour Escape from Kids’ Climate Lawsuit
In a last-minute legal maneuver, the National Association of Manufacturers is trying to extricate itself from a closely-watched federal climate lawsuit 18 months after it won a legal battle allowing it to intervene in the …
Who is Paying For Heartland Institute Climate Denial-Palooza?
This week the Heartland Institute will be gathering their small island of misfit toys in Washington, DC for another of their tedious climate Denial-Palooza events. We have followed these events going back to 2008. Heartland …
Climate Lawsuit Demands Rex Tillerson’s “Wayne Tracker” Emails
Petroleum industry knowledge of global warming in the Arctic, where ExxonMobil, shown here working on a massive drilling platform with Russian oil giant Rosneft near Sakhalin island, has long been a pioneer in oil exploration, …
As Time Runs Out for Southern Company, a Brain Drain Begins at Kemper
With builder Southern Company still promising that the Kemper power plant will go online soon, a group of key engineers and managers who work on the plant’s so-far-inoperable gasifier has left the company.
Trump Administration Pressing for Appeal, Dismissal of Climate Lawsuit
The Trump administration is asking an Oregon federal judge in the Our Children’s Trust case to let a higher court review her decision to permit a historic climate change lawsuit to proceed, and to halt …
Southern Company Says Kemper Not Viable as Coal Plant, Blames the PSC
In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power plant boondoggle away from himself and corporate management and onto state regulators, Southern Company chief executive officer Tom …
Big Oil Stalls Questioning of ExxonMobil’s Tillerson in Climate Lawsuit
A maverick climate lawsuit few legal authorities thought would survive more than a few months came within two days of questioning the world’s most powerful oil executive under oath. But that prize remains tantalizingly out …
Rick Perry Faces Tepid Questioning in Energy Secretary Confirmation Hearing
A conciliatory Rick Perry cruised through a half-day Senate confirmation hearing today for secretary of the Department of Energy before a Senate committee in a performance that was long on warm words and vague promises …
Southern Company’s Kemper Coal Plant Could Get Billions in Tax Credit Bail-Out
If Donald Trump really wants to get rid of federal corporate welfare, he should be frantically tweeting against a congressional plan that could send billions to the grossly mismanaged Kemper power plant by expanding tax …
Three Coal Companies are Trying to Keep Secret How Much Federal Coal They Mine
Earlier this year, I looked at just how much the largest US coal mining companies depend on access to subsidized federal coal, most of it extracted from public lands in the Powder River Basin of …