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Knock it off, NYT: In defense of James Hansen and other climate hawks
2013-03-05 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Like this morning. I opened the newspaper to read a column in the New York Times by Joe Nocera. Its his fourth column pushing for the Keystone XL pipeline; fair enough. (Though in the third, he managed to get the economics of carbon so completely backward that he had to append a long correction to yet another column.) This time, though, the vehicle he used was an attack on NASA scientist James Hansen, who had correctly identified the huge amount of carbon in the tar sands of Canada and Venezuela....
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Exxon Mobil begins defense in gas additive case
2013-03-04 23:42:49| Energy - Topix.net
A former Exxon Mobil engineer testified Monday that environmental hazards surrounding the gasoline additive MTBE were widely discussed in water quality and oil industry circles in the mid-1980s, contradicting the state of New Hampshire's allegations that the oil giant hid its concerns about the product.
Exxon Mobil begins defense in gas additive case
2013-03-04 23:35:13| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A former Exxon Mobil engineer testified Monday that environmental hazards surrounding the gasoline additive MTBE were widely discussed in water quality and oil industry circles in the mid-1980s, contradicting the state of New Hampshire's allegations that the oil giant hid its concerns about the product.
Exxon Mobil begins defense in gas additive case
2013-03-04 22:57:49| Chemicals - Topix.net
Barbara Mickelson was the first witness as lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. began presenting their defense against the state's claim that it is owed hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up groundwater contamination caused by MTBE.
A defense of Keystone protesters from the dark heart of the MSM
2013-03-01 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When I wrote my essay on the virtues of being unreasonable on Keystone XL, I implied, unfairly, that TIME journalist Mike Grunwald was among the ranks of Very Serious People who think anti-Keystone activism is misguided. He protested, and I promised that if he wrote on the subject I would do a special post on it. Well, Grunwald has written a column about Keystone XL and it is a doozy, just about the best thing I`ve ever read on the subject in a mainstream publication. Unlike the Monday morning...
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