Keystone XL Could Raise Gasoline Prices by 40 Cents Per Gallon, Report Finds
A Consumer Watchdog report released today has found that the Keystone XL pipeline will to hike gasoline prices in the Midwest and ultimately hurt the US economy. In addition to the overriding...
View ArticleEnergy Experts Say Coal Will Overtake Oil in 2020
World coal usage is skyrocketing because of rising demand in China and India. At the World Energy Congress yesterday, energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie stated that coal would surpass oil as the...
View ArticleBurst Pipe Spills 10,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Onto the Streets of Los Angeles
10,000 gallons of oil spilled onto the streets of Los Angeles last night when a pipe burst at a transfer station in Atwater Village near Glendale. Fire crews worked to contain the spill overnight and...
View ArticlePipeline breach sends 50,000 gallons of oil into Yellowstone River
Officials are working to determine the impact of a pipeline breach that occurred 10 a.m. Saturday morning, and spilled up to 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River near Glendive, in eastern...
View ArticleScientists discover microorganism that hasn’t evolved for over 2 billion years
Scientists have discovered a type of deep-sea microorganism that seems to be the exception to the rule of evolution. An international team of researchers say the organism does not appear to have...
View ArticleCloud bursting service guarantees sunny wedding photos – for a mere 100,000...
People want their wedding days to be perfect, so the big occasion often turns into a massive savings-swallowing event. Now with a new service from UK based firm Oliver’s Travels , if you really want...
View ArticleKeystone XL to emit 1.37 billion tons of greenhouse gases, EPA finds
If President Obama was looking for any additional reasons to veto the senate’s recent vote in favor of Keystone XL , the EPA just handed him what could be the defining argument against building the...
View ArticleObama vetoes Keystone XL bill, fight set to continue
President Obama has today—as expected—quietly vetoed a bill that sought to approve construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline . The bill passed both the Senate and the House in recent...
View ArticleWorldwide fossil fuel consumption set a new record in 2015
Two global energy records were broken in 2015. On one hand, the amount of renewable energy produced worldwide has never been higher than it was last year. But, one step forward is met with two steps...
View ArticleExxonMobil Arkansas Tar Sands Spill Reignites Keystone XL Debate
Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have long warned of the catastrophic impacts of a major spill if the infrastructure were to fail. On Friday, the nation no longer had to imagine how a tar sands...
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