The Governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley is the latest US Governor to talk tough on climate.
Although putting limits on pollution could cost businesses in the short term, in the long term, O’Malley argues that the cost of inaction is much greater — the flooding of waterfront businesses and homes, and eventually, the extinction of humans.

Venezuela has confirmed it has paid $1.8 billion in compensation to French, Norwegian and Italian oil companies for nationalizing key oil fields in the Orinoco basin in 2006.
France’s Total, Norway’s Statoil and Italy’s ENI gained the settlement after they accepted the book price for the assets Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA oil company took over.

Just over twelve years ago, the Ogoni activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa was murdered by the military junta in Nigeria for campaigning against the ecological destruction of his homeland and for asking for a greater share of the oil wealth.
Twelve years after his death, the Niger Delta remains in deep trouble. As Reuters reported this […]

Climate change threatens the human rights of millions of people who are at risk of losing access to housing, food and clean water unless governments intervene early to counter its effects, according to experts.
At a conference on climate change and migration, United Nations officials said rising sea levels and intense storms, droughts and floods could […]

Russia’s Gazprom the world’s top gas producer, has announced that it will take on big new energy projects in Iran, a move likely to anger the United States which wants Tehran isolated over its nuclear work.
State-controlled Gazprom, which supplies a quarter of Europe’s gas needs, said it had agreed to develop more phases of Iran’s […]