Think those Energy Citizen ads are really being aired in your best interest of saving a few bucks on energy costs? Think again – they are by the American Petroleum Institute, who is deathly afraid that a climate bill might impact billions of dollars of their profits. They are not interested in your energy costs [...]
Think just the environment is suffering from our abuse of fossil fuels? Think again. A new study by the National Institute of Sciences shows that over $120 billion dollars worth of our health care costs is caused directly by coal and oil use. Yep, just from burning those fossil fuels on a 24/7 schedule for [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Are the United States’ vast oil shale resources a potential source of energy?
Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that contains significant amounts of kerogen, a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds that can be converted into synthetic liquid fuel similar to oil, or into shale gas similar to petroleum-derived natural gas. Geologists [...]
