This just in from the Public Campaign Action Fund via the Washington Post: Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month — three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban — compared with $116,000 in March, $283,000 in April and $208,000 [...]

The old saying is “when in a hole, stop digging”. Faced with rising energy prices, and concern over climate change, rather than disinvest out of oil, the US is going to start digging for more of it.
But this time it’s oil shale, which is dirtier, and more energy intensive than conventional oil. Oil shale development [...]

There has been a growing perception amongst the environmental community that, given the political and economic prominence of climate change over recent years, that the battle over the issue is slowly being won.
Whilst this may be so, the oil industry and its cronies are still out there fighting tooth and nail, continuing the campaign of [...]

The clock is ticking. And is getting faster. We are entering the most serious global crisis since the Great Depression, at the same time as we face unprecedented climate change.
Such is the need for urgent action that we only have only 100 months to save the planet, according to a new policy group called the [...]

Logic would have it that you would not spend billions on something that doesn’t work. You wouldn’t would you? Well that’s logic…
So how illogical is it that we are spending billions of dollars on policies that don’t work? And I’m not talking about the war in Iraq, either. I am talking biofuels. A new report [...]