Over at the Star, Linda McQuaig writes about how taking action to stop climate change is often thwarted at the political level, often by politicians more beholden to Big Oil’s interests than their constituents’. This despite the fact that more people in Canada now oppose than support things like new pipelines,…
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Rising Seas Spark Tobacco-Style Lawsuits in California
All those years of fossil fuel companies obfuscating data are finally coming home to the legal roost as municipalities and other affected parties are starting to file lawsuits similar to those filed against tobacco companies. Several flood-prone municipalities in California filed first-of-their-kind lawsuits against fossil fuel companies this week as…
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These ‘missing charts’ may change the way you think about fossil fuel addiction
Cue sad trombone music. The National Observer examines BP’s energy review report and notices some basic missing charts, which—once reconstructed from the data—tell a different story from the general optimism many other outlets use when covering the rise of renewables. The report highlights most of the important trends in global…
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On The Flip Side – Corporate Responsibility For Climate Change
Our last post discussed individual options for reducing one’s carbon footprint. However, that can seem like a drop in the bucket when one looks at where, exactly, most carbon emissions are coming from. The Carbon Majors Report (pdf) “pinpoints how a relatively small set of fossil fuel producers may hold the key…
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Exxon’s support for a carbon tax is the first step in big oil’s long, negotiated surrender
Vox has a very interesting analysis of the reasons Exxon and other oil and gas companies might support a carbon tax. Some of them are counterintuitive. Some of them are greenwashy ways to convince the public they’re part of the solution. Others are cynical gambits to get other environmental deregulation…
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