As another oil train is dangling over a railroad bridge in Philadelphia, some wonder whether pipelines or trains are better for transporting oil. The answer from available evidence in the United States seems that the difference is fairly negligible. Including major derailments in Alabama and...
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You might think corn-based ethanol is the worst possible "green energy" alternative. And I'd like to think you are right. After all, turning the entire Midwest into a giant corn.
It's possible that oil pipleines are a better way to transport the stuff than trains. But the wages of oil pipelines are severe. Ask the people of Mayflower, Arkansas, which.
At least one Canadian is making sense about the nation's horrifically bad energy and environmental policies: Neil Young kicked off his four-date “Honour the Treaties” tour of Canada on Sunday with some fighting words about the rapid expansion of oilsands development in northern Alberta, saying...
In my forthcoming book on capital mobility, I'm dedicating a chapter to energy production. It details how we can follow Americans' interest in the costs of energy production based upon.
The corn industry's hustle to force us to turn it into fuel may have reached its peak. Normally, one might not look well upon the EPA lowering a standard that.
This essay on Obama campaign staffers finding his likely approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline deeply disturbing and conflicting is really interesting, not because of what the story says but because of the unsaid implications. Basically, Obama's Organizing for Action group attempts to translate the...
1. More on climate change destroying the ocean ecosystem and the rise of jellyfish as our new overlords. 2. Support for fracking declines in the United States. This is useful.
Doesn't this just make you feel confident that the Keystone XL pipeline won't lead to horrible oil spills? Of course, it's not like the pipeline will run through any land.
Among the many problems with fracking is how we have prioritized the fossil fuel industry's access to precious water supplies over that of regular citizens. In Texas, where fracking goes unchallenged and where extraordinary drought has challenged all users of water, towns are losing their...
I'm not much of a fan of the "crowdsourced discussion" model that Wonkblog uses here, but on the topic of whether fracking's proponents are not taking potential water contamination seriously.
Like the role Ommegang has played in fighting fracking in New York, I am glad to see Bell's Brewery take on the tar sands company Enbridge after an oil spill.