Obama Approved Over 1,500 Offshore Gulf Fracking Wells: Corporate Media...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogOn June 24, the independent news website TruthOut broke a doozy of a story: the Obama Administration hassecretly approved over 1,500 instances of offshore hydraulic...
View ArticleThe Force Has Left the Building: 'BradCast' 12/27/2016
Just when you thought 2016 had taken all it could from us, it grabbed the life force from Carrie Fisher. Damn. Let this year end already!I'm Nicole Sandler, back one more time to guest host the...
View ArticleFollow the Money ... Who is Carter Page?
…Another day, another unfathomable Trump outrage. Such is the price we all pay, these days.Who is Carter Page, ally of Trump, and staunch repeater of “blanket denials”… ?Memos: CEO of Russia's state...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FL-Sen: Bill Nelson (D) Goes After Trump's Executive Order For More Offshore...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bill Nelson’s (D. FL) re-election campaign:Sen. Bill Nelson (D. FL) Less than eight years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WA-Sen: Maria Cantwell (D) Fights Back Against Trump & Pruitt's Assault...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell’s (D. WA) re-election campaign:Sen. Maria Cantwell (D. WA)EPA Director Scott Pruitt has dealt the Pacific Northwest a serious blow -- siding...
View ArticleTrump's oil drilling is threatening the only national marine sanctuary in the...
Donald Trump’s executive order to open the floodgates on offshore oil drilling means terrible things for the part of the Earth covered by the ocean. One of the more immediate casualties of this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oil monsters Trump and Gillespie are coming to Virginia. Stand up and fight!
Yesterday we learned that the Trump Administration is preparing to withdraw us from the Paris Climate Accord. As David Axelrod told CNN, this is being done as a political move to keep campaign promises...
View ArticleBig Oil defeats California bill to ban new offshore oil drilling
Showing the enormous power of the oil industry in California despite the state’s “green” image, every bill except one opposed by the powerful oil industry has failed to make it out of the state...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trump To Rescind Rules Intended To Prevent Oil Spills All Along the U.S Coast
Remember the Deepwater Horizon? Folks in the Gulf states sure do:The U.S. Travel Association estimated that the economic impact of the oil spill on tourism across the Gulf Coast over a three-year...
View ArticleTrump is horrible, but his *policies* seem DESIGNED to deliver even bigger...
This is really a perfect quote:“Coastal Republicans were already having a tough time dealing with constituents who were pissed off about the tax bill,” former Democratic Congressional Campaign...
View ArticlePolicy crafting, Trump style.
This is getting to be fun. A few days ago His Lowness' administration announced that the US government was going to open up basically the entire eastern and western seaboards for offshore drilling....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ryan Zinke says 'Florida is obviously unique' as Trump condemns rest of coast...
Last week, Trump announced that offshore drilling was coming to a shore near everyone as he issued new rules that would lift decades of protections for America’s coastlines. By returning the nation to...
View ArticleAnother Republican Governor Wants Out of Trump's Offshore Drilling Insanity
South Carolina’s Governor, Henry McMaster, has joined Florida’s Governor, Rick Scott, in asking Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, for an exemption from Zinke’s plan to open all waters to offshore...
View Article'Equal sovereignty' of the states in the age of Trump
Less than a week into the new year, the Trump administration kicked off 2018 with one of the most cynical and craven acts of political favoritism in recent American history. On January 4, Interior...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VA-Sen: Tim Kaine (D) Fights Back Against Trump & Ryan Zinke's Offshore...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Tim Kaine’s (D. VA) re-election campaign:Sen. Tim Kaine (D. VA) It's been nearly a week since we last emailed you about our offshore drilling concerns, and...
View ArticleThe Trumpy Awards, Round Five: Worst Cabinet Member
In the early phases of the Trump administration, it was a macabrely amusing, if horribly depressing, parlor game to predict who would be the worst Cabinet nominee. One year into the administration,...
View ArticleYurok Tribe opposes Trump’s offshore drilling development plans
There is no offshore oil drilling taking place now off the Northern California coast — and the Yurok Tribe, other Tribes, fishermen and environmentalists want to keep it that way by stopping the Trump...
View ArticleDebunking the Big Myth: Offshore drilling has increased off California under...
The Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture held the 45th Annual Zeke Grader Fisheries Forum at the State Capitol in Sacramento on March 8. Below a revised version of my testimony before the...
View ArticleTrump aides and Rick Scott plotted Scott's big offshore drilling 'win'
Remember back in January, when the Trump administration gave a miracle reprieve from the administration expansion of off-shore drilling? Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had a number of excuses for...
View ArticleTrump’s not only selling off our oceans, he’s doing it for pennies on the dollar
Trump’s Department of the Interior, headed by a man submerged in fossil fuel stock, is selling off the rights to offshore drilling. This comes after the January announcement that one of the worst...
View ArticleToday: Panel of Climate and Environmental Leaders to Discuss the Road to a...
Oakland, CA -- Today, Monday, May 14th, climate and environmental movement leaders will hold a discussion on how California can be a global model for the fast and just transition from a major...
View ArticleReport: California’s climate leadership requires a managed ramp-down of oil...
A report published today by Oil Change International in collaboration with California-based and national environmental justice and climate groups reveals how California’s climate leadership requires a...
View ArticleNew map reveals massive number of offshore oil wells in California waters
On January 4, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown joined Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee in condemning President Donald Trump's plan to expand oil and gas drilling in...
View ArticleBills to stop new federal offshore drilling approved, but offshore drilling...
Two identical bills authored by Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (Santa Barbara) and Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (Torrance) to stop the Trump Administration from opening new federal oil drilling leases off...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oil spill leaking into Gulf of Mexico for 14 years creates enormous natural...
On Sept. 15, 2004, Hurricane Ivan, traveling through the Gulf of Mexico, toppled a Taylor Energy Company oil platform into the water. As columnist Fred Grimm notes in a piece in the South Florida Sun...
View ArticleJudge orders moratorium on offshore fracking in federal waters off California
U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez today ordered the Trump administration to stop issuing permits for offshore fracking in federal waters — waters over 3 miles from shore — off California. This...
View ArticleTrump administration moves to lease 65 million acres of public waters for...
One of the nice little additions to the Republican money-grab-for-billionaires tax bill last year was to open up all kinds of oil and mineral drilling of wildlife areas and untouched natural...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Norway decides NOT to drill for oil in the Arctic off of the beautiful...
Norway is walking away from billions of barrels of oil and gasNorway is walking away from billions of barrels of oil and natural gas.To the dismay of the nation’s powerful oil industry and its worker...
View ArticleCalifornia's Biggest Secret? How Big Oil Dominates Public Discourse to...
This article is based on an Earth Day week presentation that I made at the Events Center at Chabot College in Hayward on April 25 at the invitation of physics professor Nick Alexander.On Earth Day...
View ArticleAs Oil Drilling Expands, Coalition Urges Governor to Take Immediate Action to...
As the expansion of oil and gas drilling begun under Governor Jerry Brown continues in California, Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday signed into law a state budget that allocates $1.5 million for “a...
View ArticleNewsom Administration begins public process for SWP contract amendments for...
The Department of Water Resources on July 9 announced the beginning of the “public process” to negotiate proposed amendments to the State Water Project water supply contracts for a new Delta Conveyance...
View ArticleExxonMobil Seeks to Restart Offshore Platforms Five Years After Refugio Oil...
Tuesday, May 19, marks the fifth anniversary of the massive Plains All American Pipeline spill near the Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County.The collapse of the severely corroded pipeline...
View ArticleSC-Sen: Jaime Harrison's (D) Brutal Ad Hits Graham (R) For Attacking UI...
Love this:xYouTube VideoDemocrat Jaime Harrison is returning fire on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) in South Carolina’s Senate race with a new ad accusing the GOP stalwart of playing politics with Congress’s...
View ArticleTrump tries to turn his polling around with a last-minute flurry of...
Donald Trump is frantically trying to make himself look like an effective leader in the final weeks before the elections, and he couldn’t be much more obvious about it. He’s used a series of...
View ArticleCalifornia AG believes proposal to drill for gas in Suisun Marsh is not 'in...
In California, so-called "protected areas" on both land and water are often NOT protected from oil and gas drilling. The classic case of this is the privately funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA)...
View ArticleWe told you so - California's ocean waters and coast still aren't protected...
I wrote the below article in 2010 warning of the consequences of not protecting the ocean from oil spills, oil drilling, pollution and all human impacts other than fishing and gathering in the "marine...
View ArticleDaily Kos Week in Action: Veterans, striking workers, democracy, and climate...
Hello Daily Kos Community, and welcome to this new series by the Daily Kos Activism team! Each week, we’ll check in to share the issues we’re working on and get feedback on where you think we should...
View ArticleHow many oil spills does it take for lawmakers to end offshore drilling?
After a pipeline failed and spilled 144,000 gallons of crude into the ocean, dead fish and birds coated in black tarry oil washed up on California’s shores.It produced an oil slick in the Pacific the...
View ArticleThree companies indicted for negligence in Orange County oil spill
A federal grand jury indicted three companies on Wednesday for their role in the October pipeline rupture in Orange County, California that spewed 25,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean...
View ArticleState Senator Dave Min introduces bill to ban offshore drilling in California...
SACRAMENTO, CA — In a major challenge to the powerful oil industry in California, Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) has introduced a bill to ban offshore drilling in state ocean waters, including oil...
View ArticleCalifornia's proposed offshore drilling ban would only shutter 3 rigs
A California bill could end offshore drilling for the state, though drilling further out in federal waters near the coast would still continue. SB953 seeks a “relinquishment of the leases and...
View ArticleThe Interior Department will release its next offshore oil and gas lease plan...
My hopes for a lapsed oil and gas lease plan may not come true after all. During an appearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource on Thursday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland...
View ArticleBiden administration bends to optics in its support of Alaska LNG export...
The last thing this planet needs is another liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and yet that’s exactly what will be built in Alaska—with the blessing of the Biden administration. A draft...
View Article'Every oil spill begins with a lease sale': Dozens flood offshore drilling...
Late Monday afternoon, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held a public comment hearing for the government’s proposed five-year offshore oil and gas lease program. The plan calls for 11...
View ArticleMethane emissions make clear the Biden administration cannot afford more...
It would be a major mistake on my part as the public comment period continues for the Biden Administration’s proposed five-year offshore drilling plan not to tear into the Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex)...
View ArticleWith five-year offshore comment period set to close, a reminder that wind is...
There are just two days left for the first public comment period on the five-year offshore oil and gas plan proposed by the Biden administration. The plan includes 11 total oil and gas lease auctions,...
View ArticleNew oil slick discovered off Long Beach highlights lack of real marine...
Long Beach, CA – As offshore drilling continues off Southern California in a state portrayed as the “nation’s green leader” by the state’s politicians and media, an oil slick was discovered off the...
View ArticleChevron Doubles Third Quarter Refining Profit to $2.5 Billion
Los Angeles, CA—Chevron, infamous for causing environmental devastation from the Amazon to California, posted refining profits of $2.5 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2022.That almost doubles...
View ArticleBig Oil spent $22 million in effort to kill CA climate bills in first three...
Oil industry spent over $7.2 million on lobbying in third quarter of 2023It looks like 2023 could already be a record year for oil and gas spending on lobbying in California even without the fourth...
View ArticleBill to End Offshore Oil Drilling in CA Waters Passes First Major Legislative...
SACRAMENTO, CA — New oil leases for offshore oil and gas drilling have been banned in California waters for decades, but the oil industry can keep drilling in state waters 3 miles and less from shore...
View Article