Subsidy Spotlight: Utah Land Defenders Stand Up To Dirty Politics

December 18, 2014By David TurnbullBlog Post, Featured, News, Subsidy Spotlight 1 Comment

New technologies like fracking––along with government subsidies––have ushered in an energy boom reliant on extreme extraction methods to produce oil and natural gas. Now the Uinta Basin is ground zero for what threatens to become the next phase in extreme energy extraction: strip mining for tar sands and oil shale.

Dirty Energy Money Fuels Fight Against Climate

December 8, 2014By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured, News

Many people concerned about climate change may be focussed on the ongoing UN climate negotiations in Lima, but back home in the US it is business as usual for the oil and gas industry: they are secretly lobbying to delay action on climate and undermine America’s environmental protection laws.

Polluting Our Democracy and Our Environment: Dirty Fuels Money in Politics

April 23, 2014By Steve KretzmannReports, Resources 1 Comment

  Polluting Our Democracy and Our Environment: Dirty Fuels Money in Politics Oil Change International and Sierra Club April 2014 A new report by Oil Change International and the Sierra Club, Polluting Our Democracy and Our Environment: Dirty Fuels Money in Politics, demonstrates the enormous amount of campaign finance contributions pouring into Congress by the … Read More