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. [...]
Let me state for the record that I have been against the development of biofuels for a long time. I think it is just the taking of one kind of burning fuel and replacing it with another, and in the mean time nothing changes. We are still extracting something from the earth, lighting it on [...]
A report issued by the nonprofit organization Environmental Defense has declared petroleum extraction projects in Canada’s oil sands to be “the most destructive project on Earth.” “When even former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed, who started the Tar Sands ball rolling, is calling for change, you know this is a major disaster,” said Aaron Freeman, the [...]
Let’s be honest with ourselves here for a moment; we have a problem with oil. Sure, it wasn’t a problem before because there was plenty of it, we did not use that much, and we had no idea of the environmental effects of using it for everything. But we have a problem now – and [...]
