by Nelson Bailey | Mar 29, 2017 | Press Releases
Senate passes bill with GOP governor’s support, following six years of grassroots resistance across the state of Maryland ANNAPOLIS – With game-changing support from Republican Governor Larry Hogan, the Maryland state Senate Monday night gave final approval to a...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 24, 2017 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
A crude oil spill in western North Dakota in December is now believed to have leaked about 530,000 gallons of oil, much larger than initially anticipated, according to an Associated Press report published on a local news website on Friday. This is among the biggest...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 23, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety
Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide but hangs around the atmosphere for a shorter time. March 22, 2017 Researchers at Purdue University and the Environmental Defense Fund have concluded in a recent study that natural gas power plants...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 22, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Press Releases
Wall Street Journal Gas Glut Reverses Lucrative 2016 Trade Natural-gas futures have fallen 25% in the oversupplied market, hurting plans to grow U.S. exports By Timothy Puko Updated March 14, 2017 9:10 p.m. ET A flood of natural gas swamping the U.S. is turning into a...
by Nelson Bailey | Mar 22, 2017 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
The financial giant is the first of a group of 17 banks to divest from the loan that financed the pipeline as the embattled project is set to begin transporting oil. The financial giant ING has sold its stake in the $2.5bn loan financing the Dakota Access pipeline,...
