If I told you that our government mandated fuel efficiency standards hadn’t changed in 25 years, would you believe me? I don’t think I would have believed myself, to be honest. But if I had gone looking for the facts to back up that claim, I would have found it to be true; Corporate Average [...]
Back in the summer of 2009, G20 (The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors) leaders from around the world pledged to “rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption.” But 14 months later, not a single fossil fuel subsidy has been cut in any [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that the BP oil leak is much more of an environmental threat than previous spills from tankers, and if so why? No one knows for sure how the ongoing oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico will affect the deep sea ecosystem, but scientists are not optimistic. Oil from what [...]
The Louisiana Environmental Action Network has released their analysis of the air monitoring tests done by the EPA. Can you guess what they might have found? Their findings indicate that concentrations of Volatile Organic Chemicals in the air from the oil spill between April 30 through May 6 may have exceeded the Louisiana Ambient Air [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Given the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last month, isn’t it high time the government put a stop to offshore oil drilling once and for all? Short of banning it altogether, what can be done to prevent explosions, leaks and spills moving forward? The explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drill [...]
This picture was taken from space by NASA, and it is of the latest oil slick spreading out and heading towards the coast of Louisiana. The oil is from the exploded and sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, and while officials are trying everything to get the spill under control, the oil is still coming up [...]
And of course, more oil spills in the gulf or oil tankers running aground. And who couldn’t use more of those, right? I mean, why not open up 167 million acres of ocean from Delaware to Florida to extract oil from…even if you said you weren’t interested in doing that when you were running for [...]
