If you bought something and it didn’t work, you probably wouldn’t buy it again the next year, or the year after, or every year for the foreseeable future. The fossil fuel industry is no different—if it wasn’t seeing a return on its annual investment in disinformation, it wouldn’t keep spending billions of dollars on climate […]
You’ve heard about the controversy, here’s the facts: Gas stoves are bad for your health, and especially the health of children living in the same home (enclosed space) as them. They’re also super-bad for the climate, with roughly a third of US homes using this dirty, toxic fossil fuel to cook their food, and our climate. By RL […]
Gas stoves are a leading source of hazardous indoor air pollution, but they emit only a tiny share of the greenhouse gases that warm the climate. Why, then, have they assumed such a heated role in climate politics? Daniel Cohan, Rice University The Conversation This debate reignited on Jan. 9, 2023, when Richard Trumka Jr., […]
In August 2016, California’s dairy lobby fought against climate policy by talking about cow farts. In spring and summer of 2019, cow farts became a centerpiece of the opposition to the Green New Deal. In October 2021, PolitiFact had to have an expert explain that “there’s no ‘cow fart tax’” being considered in Congress. In November 2022, a USAToday fact check in response to a […]
One of the most explosive revelations in the just released House Oversight Committee report on Big Oil disinformation is that the oil industry never saw methane, what they euphemistically rebranded “natural gas,” as a “bridge fuel” to a clean energy future: they always saw it as a “destination,” an ongoing addiction they planned to do everything in their […]
Environmental justice advocates celebrated this week when a fracking company accepted responsibility for poisoning drinking water supplies in Dimock, Pennsylvania. Nearly 14 years after a well explosion on New Year’s Day 2009 revealed to Dimock residents that methane had percolated into their groundwater, Cabot Oil & Gas pleaded no contest to 15 criminal charges, including nine felonies. The […]
What a momentous day for the health of God’s children – praise God! On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an updated rule to cut methane and other harmful pollutants from oil and gas operations across the U.S. By Rev. Mitch Hescox Evangelical Environmental Network The proposed standard would reduce 36 million tons of […]
In the past, professional climate deniers have done their job as rodeo clowns to distract the public from charging at fossil fuel companies for their responsibility for the climate crisis by, among other things, comparing climate activists to Nazis or Hitler. By Climate Denier Roundup For example, back in 2009, before the House of Lords sent […]
As the United Nations released its latest report showing that the continued failure of wealthy countries to immediately transition away from fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global heating, a new analysis warned the White House to scrap its plans to export billions of cubic meters of fracked gas to Europe annually until 2030. By Julia Conley Common Dreams […]
California on Thursday committed to prohibiting the sale of so-called “natural” gas heaters and furnaces by the end of the decade, a first-in-the-nation move climate campaigners and environmentalists hope will serve as an example other states will follow. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams The California Air Resources Board (CARB) unanimously approved a plan primarily aimed at attaining the […]
The Canadian government has used Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the removal of Russian natural gas exports to justify increasing natural gas production in Canada. Much of the necessary infrastructure for producing and transporting this liquefied natural gas (LNG) would, however, take years to develop, locking Canada into an emissions pathway that is incompatible with […]
Cooks love their gadgets, from countertop slow cookers to instant-read thermometers. Now, there’s increasing interest in magnetic induction cooktops – surfaces that cook much faster than conventional stoves, without igniting a flame or heating an electric coil. Jonathan Levy, Boston University The Conversation Some of this attention is overdue: Induction has long been popular in […]
The newly enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains the world’s first-ever fee on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas believed to be responsible for roughly 30% of global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution. But analysts and climate advocates fear that the fee, which is aimed at incentivizing U.S. fossil fuel companies to stop deliberately spewing the gas into the atmosphere, […]
At least 4,600 documented orphaned oil and gas wells are spread across Louisiana, with major human health and climate ramifications for the 230,000 people, including 15,000 children under five years old, who live within a mile of an orphan well. Many of those wells, plus the unknown number of undocumented orphan wells and unsealed “idle” […]
The following is the written testimony of EEN’s Vice President for Science & Policy, The Rev. Dr. Jessica Moerman, from the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis hearing entitled “Cutting Methane Pollution: Safeguarding Health, Creating Jobs, and Protecting Our Climate” on June 24, 2022: Dear Chair Castor and Ranking Member Graves, Thank you for your service to […]