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  Talking Dirty in the President’s Ear

  Andy Rowell

  Oct25

  The revolving door between the Obama Administration and TransCanada keeps on spinning, despite a decision on the hugely controversial pipeline just weeks away. Let’s not forget the first revolving door story, which revolves around Paul Elliott, who is TransCanada’s lobbyist promoting Keystone XL. Elliot worked for Hilary Clinton during her 2008 campaign.  Recently released embarrassing…
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  Rick Perry’s predictable energy plan

  Lorne Stockman

  Oct14

  I wasn’t bowled over with surprise to hear news of Rick Perry’s energy plan today. I could have written it myself. The plan is a fossil fuel industry wish list. Open everything up and dismantle any regulation that might get in the way of digging, drilling, fracking and burning. It’s not really news. It wasn’t…
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• Keystone XL Crime Scene Investigation

  Steve Kretzmann

  Oct11

  Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth, the Other 98% and DeSmogBlog have mapped the tangled web of corruption around the Keystone XL pipeline.  Check it out and then click the image to send your letter demanding that President Obama reject the lobbyists and say no to Keystone XL.      

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  It’s Time for Reform: Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Rich Nations are Staggering

  Traci Romine

  Oct11

  Finally a new report, released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED), begins to quantify how much rich nations—and taxpayers—are supporting fossil-fuel production and consumption. The numbers are staggering. During each of the last five years, between US$ 45 billion and US$ 75 billion in budgetary support and tax expenditures have been provided…
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  Report: Exporting Energy Security: Keystone XL Exposed

  Steve Kretzmann

  Aug31

  The Keystone XL Pipeline: Oil for Export, Not for U.S. Energy Security Industry Documents Reveal Scheme to Reach Lucrative Markets Abroad Download the full report. In pushing for the Obama Administration’s approval of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the North American oil industry and its political patrons argue that the pipeline is necessary…
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  Fred Upton: Big Oil’s Superman in SuperCongress

  Steve Kretzmann

  Aug18

  Numerous recent polls reveal that the American people believe that Congress is more responsive to their campaign donors than their own constituents. In addition, Americans of all affiliations clearly favor ending oil industry handouts. The question is, whose side is Fred Upton on: the American people’s or Big Oil’s? Rep. Upton is Big Oil’s biggest…
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• Oil Money and the “SuperCongress”

  Steve Kretzmann

  Aug17

  Eight of the twelve members of the newly-named Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction have voted in the last two years to allow oil companies to keep more than $4 billion annually in taxpayer subsidies in place. All six Republicans have consistently voted to preserve oil industry handouts. Oil industry lobbyists have made maintaining these handouts…
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  Congress is “Most Anti-Green” in History

  Andy Rowell

  Aug02

  OK there is only one story in town this week in Washington. With just hours to go the House of Representatives has just passed a last minute bill to raise the US borrowing limit, preventing the markets free-falling. The Senate is now expected to follow suit. The immediate reaction from the Democrats is anger that…
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  “This is the worst news on emissions”

  Andy Rowell

  May31

  When historians look back at the beginning of this century, one of the complex phenomena that they must unravel is that as the warnings about climate change got more severe, the stronger the conspiracy became that it was not happening. Take just the last 24 hours. Yesterday, the Guardian ran with the headline that “Worst…
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• Senators Opposing End of Oil Subsidies Received Five Times More in Big Oil Campaign Cash

  Steve Kretzmann

  May17

  Find out how much oil money your elected representatives take by visiting the Dirty Energy Money site. Washington, D.C.—U.S. Senators that blocked a vote on legislation to end taxpayer subsidies to oil companies have received five times more in campaign contributions from oil and gas interests than those who voted to begin debate, according to…
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