Enviro-Freak Economics: Keystone XL would raise price of gasoline

Because that’s how the law of supply-and-demand works? Continue reading Enviro-Freak Economics: Keystone XL would raise price of gasoline

Felsot: Pesticide residues on food are safe

Great report and just a small nit to pick with a stray (perhaps misreported) Felsot comment. Continue reading Felsot: Pesticide residues on food are safe

GOP seeks legislative fix to EPA, reliability conundrum

Now that utilities and Congressional Republicans have failed to protect our electricity supply against EPA overreach, there’s a conspiracy afoot to protect the utilities from their own failure. This must be opposed. Continue reading GOP seeks legislative fix to EPA, reliability conundrum

Ohio Drilling Is ‘Godsend’

$34 billion worth. Continue reading Ohio Drilling Is ‘Godsend’

Pastors: ‘Where would Jesus frack?’

Just humoring these two, since the Bible says that God plans on calling in an airstrike on Earth and starting over anyway, why would Jesus care where we frack? Continue reading Pastors: ‘Where would Jesus frack?’

‘Bomb Waiting To Go Off’: CDC-ATSDR blames methane in Ohio drinking water on fracking

“That news contradicts repeated statements from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on the connection between the drilling and problems at the two houses…” Continue reading ‘Bomb Waiting To Go Off’: CDC-ATSDR blames methane in Ohio drinking water on fracking

Gore violated Apple’s ethics rules?

Shareholders want to know. Continue reading Gore violated Apple’s ethics rules?

Report: ‘Winterless winter’ in Wash. D.C. area

“Blame for this year’s snow deficit can be assigned in layers, from the meteorological to the climatological, from the simple to the complex and on to the speculative.” Continue reading Report: ‘Winterless winter’ in Wash. D.C. area

Muddying the Marcellus Debate With Science

The debate over Marcellus shale fracking is about politics, not science. Continue reading Muddying the Marcellus Debate With Science

Santorum: ‘I didn’t sit on any couches with any former speakers of the House’

“Former”? Pelosi was the Speaker at the time. Continue reading Santorum: ‘I didn’t sit on any couches with any former speakers of the House’

Cornell research group defends gas-drilling study

They claim that shale gas has twice the carbon footprint of coal over the short-term. Continue reading Cornell research group defends gas-drilling study

NY village to consider moratorium on fracking

Fracking is falling victim to mob-ocracy. Continue reading NY village to consider moratorium on fracking