A Chevron cyclic-steam injection oil well in Kern County, California has now been leaking for nearly three months, spilling an estimated 974,400 gallons of crude oil and other fluids and making it the largest oil spill in the state in almost 30 years.
Oakland, CA— Sierra magazine’s July/August edition is now on newsstands and arriving at subscribers’ homes. Among other articles, the latest issue includes:
You Can’t Recycle Garbage: A cover story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes on what’s needed to reinvent the United States’ broken recycling system.
Ignoring risks to native people, climate and the Salish Sea, the Canadian government today formally approved an expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation will repeal a safety measure requiring upgrades to the brakes on rail cars carrying explosive crude oil. The original rule was issued in 2015 in response to a series of train derailments and explosions that killed dozens of people.
Last night, Politico reported that the American Petroleum Institute’s executive committee will visit the White House next week to discuss energy policy.
When Donald Trump reversed the rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, he touted his plan to require that the pipeline be built using only American-made steel. Since then, the commitment to American steel has been dropped from his stump speech, and the administration’s recently released infrastructure plan includes nothing about requiring American steel in pipelines.
Today, the Minnesota Department of Commerce provided revisions to its final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled in December that the FEIS was inadequate, though they sidestepped a number of concerns that have been raised by Minnesotans and several state agencies including numerous calculation errors and a failure to adequately explore alternatives to this pipeline expansion or any no-build scenario.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee today rejected the largest oil shipping terminal proposed in North America as not in the best interests of the state and its people. The Tesoro Savage project (also known as Vancouver Energy) sought to ship over 131 million barrels of oil per year down the Columbia River.
Today, environmental groups, Tribes, Youth Climate Intervenors, and other stakeholders submitted their briefs on Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline. In their briefs, the groups laid out the reasons Enbridge should not be granted the permits to build this tar sands pipeline through Minnesota, and the threats it would pose to the state’s land, water, and communities, as well as our climate.
Today, Canadian pipeline company TransCanada made an attempt to claim that the Keystone XL pipeline is moving forward by announcing it has sufficient commercial support for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. However, TransCanada has still not committed to building the pipeline, and many obstacles remain for the controversial project.
Washington, DC -- Once again, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is having a disastrous week.
Yesterday, the EPA released their annual fuel economy trends report. The data shows that new cars are guzzling 20% less gas and spewing lower climate emissions than their predecessors purchased a decade ago. Clean car standards are helping ensure that vehicles continue to become cleaner and more efficient – reducing air pollution and saving families money at the gas pump. Strong standards are essential to keeping these encouraging trends going.