Cleaning Up Our Waters, Spending, and Energy Use Hot Pubs

Member Reports: Toxic Oil Dispersants: This month Toxipedia Consultants and Earthjustice released “The Chaos of Clean-Up: Analysis of Potential Health and Environmental Impacts of Chemicals in Dispersant Products.” The study responds to public concern over the safety of chemicals poured into the Gulf of Mexico to disperse oil after the Deepwater Horizon spill. According to [...]

Offshore Drilling Overview and Other Hot Pubs

USCAN MEMBER REPORTS World Bank: An April 14th report by Friends of the Earth and several other non-governmental organizations highlights the World Bank’s continued detrimental financing of fossil fuels.  According to seven case studies of the report “World Bank, Climate Change and Energy Financing: Something Old. Something New?” the Bank’s increase in carbon-intensive financing and [...]

Welcome to the 112th, Climate Action Hotline 1.10.11

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director January 10, 2011 Welcome to the 112th Republicans took the helm in the House of Representatives on Wednesday with promises to roll back, cut back and scale back. Rhetoric from Democrats focused on defense, ranging from highlighting the benefits Americans already experience from recently passed legislation, to fact checking and publically [...]

Bubbling and Crude: Gulf coast spill reflects devotion to wealth, power, and oil

By Keith Schneider US Climate Action Network On March 17, two weeks to the day before President Barack Obama laid out a new plan to expand offshore oil exploration in the United States, a government auction of federally controlled oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico was held at the New Orleans Superdome.  [...]