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 [...]
Wow. That’s really the only word I could say when I read this article at Forbes.com. I am not sure how many ads Exxon/Mobil had to buy in the magazine to get this “award”, but something smells pretty fishy. Since when can a company that denies that climate change is happening, creates a [...]
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 [...]
My friend Keith over at The Unsuitablog pointed out an article that I am proclaiming the Greenwash Of The Week – an Eco-Race sponsored by the Shell Oil Company. I never saw this article when it was published over at the Guardian but Keith caught it and was quick to point out the hypocrisy in [...]
