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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Exxon Big profits, little ethics	David Roberts	28 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Exxon Mobil Corp., you may have heard, just ended the most profitable year ever, for any American corporation. Ever. To the tune of $34 billion. That means Exxon pulled down about $1,110 a second last year. Nonetheless, as Carl Pope extensively documents, the company remains one of the biggest deadbeats in the world, still digging in its heels about paying victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill (2,000 of which are dead -- and their surviving family members ha ...
Topics: business, energy, oil (all these topics)

Solution Finds New Problem Republicans in Congress reanimate efforts to drill in Arctic Refuge		26 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Solution Finds New Problem Republicans in Congress reanimate efforts to drill in Arctic Refuge Iran -- the world's fourth-largest oil producer -- has threatened to cut oil exports if other nations impose economic sanctions to punish it for restarting its nuclear-power program. Some analysts say oil prices could spike to $100 a barrel if Iran stopped exports entirely. In response to this geopolitical ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, Iran, mining and drilling, news, oil (all these topics)

The Royalty Wee Taxpayers have been getting screwed on oil and gas royalties		24 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
The Royalty Wee Taxpayers have been getting screwed on oil and gas royalties A three-month New York Times investigation has uncovered a complex tale of oil and gas royalties, price discrepancies, accounting chicanery, and lax enforcement. But at its heart, it's the same old story: The Bush administration is essentially helping energy companies screw taxpayers. The American people own oil and gas reserves on public ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil, wilderness (all these topics)

Matters of the Hearth On fireplaces	Umbra Fisk	23 Jan 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, We pile on socks and sweaters, but there are just times you need more warmth. Should we use the fireplace or our central (gas-powered) heater? Also, can you let us know which is better, natural firewood or those chemically infused logs that claim lower particulate matter is released? Kas Sut Davis, Calif. Dearest Kas, Although we've contemplated this heating dilemma before, I find I have more to say about fire. Don't use ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living (all these topics)

The End is Nigeria Oil pollution, corruption contribute to hostage-taking in Nigeria		20 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
The End is Nigeria Oil pollution, corruption contribute to hostage-taking in Nigeria In Nigeria, oil, corruption, pollution, and violence have produced a drama rich with 21st-century portent. Last week, militants in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region took four Western oil workers hostage. Their demands include more local control of Nigeria's massive oil wealth -- the proceeds of which typically end up in the ...
Topics: energy, news, Nigeria, oil, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Iran and oil	David Roberts	17 Jan 2006	Gristmill
So, let's return to a familiar subject: The use of oil as a political tool in international relations. Iran's heading toward nukes. The U.S. wants to prevent it. So the U.S. is threatening economic sanctions -- specifically, threatening to restrict Iran's major export, oil. But, ahem, don't we need that oil? Points out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "You need us more than we need you. All of you today need the Iranian nation." Kev ...
Topics: energy, Iran, oil (all these topics)

The Joy PUC Club California regulators approve landmark solar-power plan		13 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
The Joy PUC Club California regulators approve landmark solar-power plan With one eco-tastic vote, California is set to become a global clean-energy leader: Yesterday, the state's energy regulators approved about $3 billion in subsidies to promote solar power. Rebates will be paid to residential and business utility customers to encourage insta ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, business, California, energy, energy at home, legislation, news, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

The Wind and the Willful RFK Jr. and other prominent enviros face off over Cape Cod wind farm	Amanda Griscom Little	12 Jan 2006	Muckraker
A long-simmering disagreement within the environmental community over a plan to build a massive wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., is now boiling over into a highly public quarrel. The future of Nantucket Sound? Photo: NREL. The four-year-old battle started heating up last summer when Greenpeace USA staged a demonstration against well-known eco-activist Robe ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, Muckraker, politics, wind power (all these topics)

No More Mr. Nice Guy Climate change is pushing this easygoing enviro over the edge	Bill McKibben	12 Jan 2006	Soapbox
The one and only time I ever saw my mother become aggressive in public went like this. We were out as a family for a weekend leaf-peeping drive, an impulse apparently shared by most of the rest of New England, because the traffic along New Hampshire's Kancamagus Highway was endless 90-degree gridlock. Every once in a while, however, somebody would zoom happily by in the breakdown lane. ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, energy, Massachusetts, politics, wind power (all these topics)

OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling		12 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling The Bush administration's lust for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having gone unrequited, it's going to stick its derricks in some sloppy seconds: The Department of Interior is opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of other Alaskan wildlife habitat to dri ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

So Fresh, So Clean Whole Foods makes record-setting wind-power purchase		11 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
So Fresh, So Clean Whole Foods makes record-setting wind-power purchase Whole Foods Market, mega-purveyor of organic and free-range foodstuffs, plans to purchase a jaw-dropping 458 million kilowatt-hours of wind-energy credits. It will be the largest-ever such purchase in North America, enough to offset the entire company's projected energy use through 2006. The move will keep about 700 mill ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, wind power (all these topics)

GM and ethanol Just because General Motors calls it green doesn't mean it is.	David Roberts	08 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Joel Makower reports that General Motors will lead a joint demonstration project "to learn more about consumer awareness and acceptance of E85 as a motor vehicle fuel by demonstrating its use in GM's flexible-fuel vehicles." The California Department of Transportation will use some flex-fuel vehicles and work with Chevron Technology Ventures to make sure there are filling stations that offer E85 (gas w/ 85% ethanol). A company called Pacific Ethanol will pr ...
Topics: biofuels, business, energy, ethanol (all these topics)

Enviros call on RFK Jr. to support Cape Wind project Over 150 activists send letter asking Kennedy to reconsider position	Lisa Hymas	06 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Cape Wind Associates' plan to build a big wind-power farm off the coast of Cape Cod has been dividing enviros for years, but the disagreement got a lot more heated last month when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran a high-profile op-ed railing against the project in The New York Times. An excerpt: These turbines are less than six miles from shore and would be seen from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Five reasons to oppose wind farms According to Wired.	Chris Schults	06 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Your property value will decrease. They're ugly. You'll hear noises similar to those Nazi troops used to torture Jews with during the holocaust. They'll cause strokes. Women will menstruate five times a month. At least some people think so, according to a Wired article about the battle against wind farms in upstate New York.
Topics: energy, New York, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

You Light Up My Strife Solar LED lamps provide clean, cheap lighting to rural poor		05 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
You Light Up My Strife Solar LED lamps provide clean, cheap lighting to rural poor A handful of villagers in rural India are receiving a life-transforming technology: low-cost, solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) lamps. Bombay-based Grameen Surya Bijli Foundation has installed the $55 lamps free of charge in about 300 homes. "Children can now study at night, elders can ma ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, energy at home, India, news, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Use your Prius as a generator Cool.	David Roberts	03 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Here's a nifty little guide to setting up your Prius as an emergency power supply for your house. (via BB)
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Sen. Ted Stevens: Crybaby	David Roberts	22 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has spent the last week or so -- nay, the last 25 years -- attempting to circumvent the clearly and repeatedly expressed preferences of a majority of U.S. citizens by allowing oil drilling to take place in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The latest attempt involved attaching drilling to the defense appropriations bill, in effect holding military funding hostage in the middle of an armed conflict. We have perhaps become num ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Coal Reversal Climate campaigners warm to 'advanced coal' and sequestration, despite Bush backing	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Dec 2005	Muckraker
Climate campaigners warm to "advanced coal" and sequestration, despite Bush backing By Amanda Griscom Little 16 Dec 2005 Bush administration officials tried their darnedest to derail the international climate-change negotiations that wrapped up in Montreal last week. But in the midst of their bombastic no-no-no-ing, they did offer up one constructive idea -- a $950 million partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy and industry leaders to build FutureGen, a "p ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Gas prices	David Roberts	14 Dec 2005	Gristmill
It's an open question how much gasoline prices affect gasoline consumption. But apparently gas prices are pretty tightly correlated with something else. Click to find out what. (Via Tapped)
Topics: energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Solar Survivor California utility commission recharges Governator's solar energy plan		14 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Solar Survivor California utility commission recharges Governator's solar energy plan California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) Million Solar Roofs initiative -- a casualty of partisan squabbling in the California legislature's last session -- has been partially resurrected. On Tuesday, the California Public Utilities Commission responded to a groundswell of ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, legislation, news, politics, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

To the Victor Go the Oils Gaghan's Syriana not at all the feel-good film of the year	David Roberts	09 Dec 2005	Arts and Minds
Syriana, written and directed by Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, is a brave and daunting piece of filmmaking. It plunges without apology into hot-button territory few U.S. news outlets, much less Hollywood productions, have dared explore, and does very little to smooth the rough edges for a moviegoing audience accustomed to frictionless entertainment. In a pop-culture landsc ...
Topics: energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

Prius and oil, part deux More!	David Roberts	06 Dec 2005	Gristmill
About a week ago I did a short post on Prius/oil-related matters that seemed to irritate a few folks. I hadn't noticed until today that our occasional contributor (and pundit nonpareil) Clark Williams-Derry posted a response. He seemed to be approaching the question the same way some other people did, so I thought I'd offer a reply. To recap: A Wall Street Journal editorial (sub.) said this: Petroleum not consumed by Prius owners is not 'saved.' It does not st ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, oil, Prius (all these topics)

Prius and oil Calming down the hybrid hype.	David Roberts	30 Nov 2005	Gristmill
Treehugger mocks this, from the notoriously hack-a-rrific Wall Street Journal editorial page: Petroleum not consumed by Prius owners is not 'saved'. It does not stay in the ground. It is consumed by someone else. Greenhouse gases are still released. I'm all for mocking the WSJ editorial page, but this statement is quite true. Oil supply and demand are tightly coupled right now and are only going to get more so. Any dribble of oil you don't use will be snapped up ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, oil, Prius (all these topics)

Drilling in ANWR will hurt the environment! No it won't! Yes it ... yawn	Corey McKrill	30 Nov 2005	Gristmill
A while back I filled out the little form for NRDC's letter-writing campaign to save the Arctic Refuge. It sends a message to your Congressman, urging them oppose oil and gas development in the region. It's probably the tenth one of those things I've submitted regarding the refuge. (It's so easy; just type in your email and click 'send.' No thought involved.) I often question the usefulness of online campaigns and the implications of such mindless 'citizen participatio ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Let It BP BP making big boost to clean-energy spending		30 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Let It BP BP making big boost to clean-energy spending Oil giant BP plans to invest up to $8 billion of its oil-and-gas profits into clean energy technologies and greenhouse-gas abatement projects over the next 10 years. An $8 billion investment would represent an eightfold increase over the company's clean-energy outlay in the past decade, says CEO John Browne. BP expects an eve ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

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