US Presidential candidate Senator John McCain has released an updated list of his top donors. It reveals that nearly a fifth of those who have brought in the largest amounts for him, more than $500,000 each, are lobbyists or work for firms that engage in lobbying.
One of those listed is a top oil lobbyist and […]

We have said it before and we will say it again. Once an oilman always an oilman. You can’t get crude out from your veins.
Yesterday, in a sop to his oil industry buddies, George W. Bush lifted an executive order banning oil exploration in US waters.
It was a political move aimed at ratcheting up the […]

For a man whose ties to the oil industry are legendary, it came as a surprise that Bush once said that America had to break its oil addiction. Like an ailing addict who has tried but failed to beat his cravings, Bush has gone cold turkey for oil. As the world faces record oil prices, […]

Another day of political deadlock in the US Senate on Friday, when Senators pulled a major global warming bill that would have mandated major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
In a 48 to 36 vote, the Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. 3036) fell a dozen votes short of the needed number to end debate and […]

Happy Environment Day, story Number 2.
No surprises here really, by the US will tell a July meeting of the G8 that it cannot meet big cuts in greenhouse gases by 2020, its chief climate negotiator Harlan Watson said.
“It’s frankly not do-able for us,” he said, referring to a goal for rich countries to curb greenhouse […]