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New report shows global warming pollution up in 48 U.S. states

0 Comments Published by Jen Kalafut April 23rd, 2007 in Climate Change, Oil, Politics, US politics, climate change impacts, record temperatures

Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to “The Carbon Boom,” a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released earlier this month by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG). The past nine years have been among the 25 warmest for the contiguous United […]

What else has the government not told us about climate change?

0 Comments Published by Jen Kalafut March 30th, 2007 in Climate Change, Corruption, Oil, climate change impacts, energy policy

A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science.
According to GAP, political policies and practices “have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information emerging from publicly-funded climate change research.
This has negatively affected the media’s ability to report objectively on […]

Police in Java say oil drilling is the cause of fatal mudflow

0 Comments Published by Jen Kalafut March 11th, 2007 in Asian oil and gas, Oil, oil and gas production, oil waste

Since May 2006, a massive mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia has left at least seven people dead, swallowed several villages, displaced 15,000 residents and destroyed 20 factories, all resulting in economic stagnation in the region. On Thursday, Indonesian police investigating the mudflow have pointed to poor management of oil drilling operations as the cause […]