Energy Sector

New Yorkers Still Slightly in Favor of Fracking Even as More Shady "Studies" Emerge

New Yorkers believe that the economic benefits of drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale outweigh the risk of potentially harmful environmental repercussions, according to today's Quinnipiac University Poll. The poll finds that 44 percent of New Yorkers think the economic pros of hydrauli ... More >>

Climate Change Activists Project Hurricane Sandy Images Onto Gas Station

The Exxon Mobil station on 2nd Street and Avenue C became an impromptu movie theater last night, as a coalition of climate-change activists projected a short film about Hurricane Sandy recovery onto the wall above it. Josh Fox, one of the filmmakers behind the anti-fracking film Gasland, shot the 2 ... More >>

Fracking: Boom or Doom

America's hydraulic fracturing gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation

Brandon Ballengée: Creature Discomfort

Payback

Michael Bloomberg Talks Trash: Will Mayor's Waste-to-Energy Plan Survive Critics?

New York has a lot of trash! (Both the people-kind and the garbage can-kind.) Today, though, Mayor Mike is concerned with the latter: He wants to build what's called a waste-to-energy plant, a fancy way to describe an electricity-generating, trash-processing factory. His administration is accepting ... More >>

Reveling In Social Anxiety with Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend

The Suburbs and Contra contemplate little pink polos for you and me

The 10 Best Rightblogger Rants of 2010: Obama vs. Jesus, The Sperm Donor Menace, And More!

What a horrible year it's been. There's been something to annoy everyone, and everyone took full advantage: The health care bill, the Tea Party, the BP spill, the Ground Zero Mosque, the Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart rallies, the Republican Comeback, the enhanced TSA patdowns, WikiLeaks -- and every bi ... More >>

The New Yorker's Annual Food Issue Has Arrived

Martin Schoeller/The New Yorker​The New Yorker's annual food issue is out this week, to the immeasurable joy of gastronerds who have some spare time on their hands. High on the marquee is Lauren Collins' profile of April Bloomfield, whom Collins dubs "the food world's oblivious savant." Elsew ... More >>

BP and Russia Are Now BFFs, Apparently

via NYT​While America is still pretty sore at BP for that whole oil spill debacle -- the repercussions in terms of lawsuits and penance to pay is not over yet, oh no -- Russia is being pretty darn friendly to them all of a sudden, a bit surprising considering how strained relations were betwee ... More >>

The BP Oil Spill, in Baby Tattoos

via Jason Clay Lewis website​This baby is fake, just so you know. Even so, it is perhaps the most disturbing display of outrage based on the BP oil spill. It looks so real, and those tattoos...they'd be stretched and faded by the time he could walk. But, it's only art.

Woman in the Fridge

Pentagon Xmas Party Off; Will Contractors Step Up?

A.M. 7-28-08: Big Oil Agitprop, Hamptons Gloom, Release the Hounds

Black Gold Vs. Corporate Gold

Rotten Tomatoes: Republicans Defeat Windfall Oil Profits Tax

How to Kill a War in 10 Not-So-Easy Steps

Desperate times call for desperate measures—like talking to lobbyists

Morning Report 1/13/06
Your Bankruptcies, Their Bonuses Break Records

After Sharon: Bush's Mideast Agenda

President losing tough-guy friend in unfriendly region

And Another Thing, You Donkey Heads

Cheney falls way down the rabbit hole over Democrats' dissent

Morning Report 11/13/05
The Vise President

Any Profit in a Storm

Stormy weather allows big oil to practice a crude sort of blackmail

Rita and Weep

Texas, home to the country's largest refineries, has yet to be declared a disaster area by Bush

Morning Report 9/18/05
Up in the Air on Both Fronts

Bush Regime Remains in Persistent Vegetative State

Morning Report 8/12/05
Access of Evil

Morning Report 7/12/05
The Empire Strikes Out

Feeding-Tube Frenzy

The miracle of Capitol Hill tries to pump new life into the Christian right

Fueling 'Democracy'

Indonesian Army Said to Block Tsunami Aid

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil finds an extra $5 million for victims

Morning Report 12/27/04
Disasters Natural and Unnatural

Financing Mass Murder

How free-market investors contribute to genocide in Darfur while they take the profits

The Next Big Scandal

Rumsfeld Watch

Secretary of Defense Aims to Privatize the U.S. Military

Go With the Flow

Bubbling, Crude Documents From Cheney

Oiling the Colonial Gears

U.S. Works Hard to Roll Back History

Rumsfeld's Dealings With Saddam

Were Trips to Iraq Meant to Secure Pipeline Deal?

How to Fight a Hellfire

Into the Mouth of a Blazing Iraqi Oil Well

Are We in for a Stock Market Crash?

Bush's War Path Could Lead to 'Bear Market Panic in the Valley of Death'

Daddy Warbucks

Bush Pals Get Rich Off Iraq

Bush's War on Women, Part Two

The Myth of Progress

Dollars and Nonsense

It's the Post-War Economy, Stupid!

The 2002 Wacko Awards

Uncle Sam's Crude Solution

Our Expensive, Deadly Role as Global Oil Police

The Spoils of War

Be the First on Your Block to Make a Buck off Iraq

Bushido—The Way of Oil

America Goes Into the Energy Business With the Former Evil Empire

Phil Gramm’s Enron Favor

Watchdog: Senator Pushed End to Oversight for Campaign Contributor

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A Selected List of Organizations

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