Category: “Middle Column”
- With most Californians ignoring the worst drought in 500 years, state considers assigning daily water usage limits to everyone
- California farmers are getting smaller harvests for many crops this year because of drought
- Koch, Exxon determining how much gasoline (or was it diesel?) was spilled into a creek last week in Texas and which pipeline it leaked from
- U.S. carbon emissions rose 2.7% in the first half of this year
- In Skagit County, Washington, firefighters attend a workshop on how to deal with fiery oil-train crashes
- Saskatchewan coal plant plans ribbon-cutting ceremony for world’s first commercial-scale carbon-capture facility
- Murray says he didn’t send his employees letters asking them to support pro-coal candidates
- West Virginia welcomes bids from companies who want drill for oil under the Ohio River, source of drinking water for millions
- Rooftop solar installations decline in Spain after government threatens to impose “sun tax”
- Russia says Rosneft and Exxon have found an estimated 1 billion-barrel oil field in the Arctic
