Bill McKibben

This. Means. WAR.

It’s 5:43 am and I can’t sleep. The fire is mounting another assault. On August 7th, rumor has it that a (fossil fuel) off-road vehicle malfunction touched off the “Pilot” fire just north of our home. For a nerve-wracking week, the wind held the fire just two miles north of us until … [continued]

Hillary’s Delegates Want 100% Clean Energy … But Veto Solutions To Get Us There

Bernie Sanders, despite no Big Money backing and essentially no backing from establishment politicians in Democratic leadership positions, gave Hillary Clinton a serious run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. The grassroots support for Bernie across the nation was record-shattering and a shocker for many people in and outside of establishment politics. Naturally, despite … [continued]

ExxonMobil Boasts Climate Science, Obscures Masquerade

As we reported last week, InsideClimate News has an investigative series going about Exxon (a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, called ExxonMobil since 1999) quietly studying fossil fuels and global warming. Reporters at ICN’s Pulitzer Prize-winning website searched the record and interviewed retired Exxon employees and officials … [continued]

114th Congress Opens With Wrangling About Keystone XL

As newly elected members took their seats in Congress yesterday for the first time, Washington’s almighty kerfluffle about the Keystone XL pipeline resurfaced. Here’s some background. Calgary-based TransCanada proposed several years ago to send oil from the Canadian tar sands terminal at Hardisty, Alberta, via a small-diameter Keystone pipeline routed … [continued]