ExxonMobil to Humanity: "Drop Dead (but keep your motors running)"
Running a major oil company means not having to say you’re sorry. Or at least that’s what ExxonMobil’s managers seem to believe. Earlier this week the oil...
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Can ExxonMobil Protect Climate & its Bottom Line?
It’s big news that ExxonMobil (XOM) has agreed to report on the risks to its fossil fuel assets in a world that comes to terms with the reality of climate...
Another Assault on Clean Air
Just before Halloween, Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) circulated a draft bill that would block EPA from issuing standards that would cut...
Read My Lips: No Tax Credit Polluter Havens
Last week I blogged here about the letter from four House members claiming that EPA's proposed carbon pollution rule for new coal plants violated the 2005...
Smoke from Capitol Hill
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” is a great song but a lousy way to read the Clean Air Act. The latest coal smoke from Congress is a letter from four House members...
Whitfield Bill Puts Big Coal in Charge of Carbon Pollution Standards
Trick or treat! There is a new anti-EPA bill knocking at our door, courtesy of Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY). The authors know its aim is so deeply unpopular that...