BUSTED: Oil execs recorded boasting about ‘unprecedented access’ to Trump during Ritz-Carlton luncheon
Oil executives were recorded boasting about their access to President Donald Trump after he appointed an industry lawyer to the number two position at the Interior Department. In a report for Politico, Reveal’s Lance Williams wrote that the June 2017 recording featured oil lobbyists laughing at how …
Photographer Says He Lost His Job After Leaking Pictures Of Rick Perry And Coal CEO
Former Department of Energy photographer Simon Edelman is filing a federal whistleblower suit after he leaked the photos of a private meeting between the energy secretary and Robert Murray.
Trump infrastructure plan would speed up pipelines, cut...
The Trump administration’s infrastructure proposal released on Monday would spee...
Former EPA official launches ‘dark money’ group to promote Trump’s energy agenda
The website of a ‘dark money’ group launched by an outgoing senior Trump administration official was purchased weeks before she resigned from the EPA.
Senator: No Trust Of Sec. Rick Perry After Plutonium Transport
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Exclusive: The Interior Department Scrubs Climate Change From Its Strategic Plan
A leaked draft of a five-year plan reveals how the DOI will prioritize “energy dominance” over conservation.
Perry proposes law to force Americans to buy dirtier, costlier power
So this happened yesterday while Rump was distracting everyone with his tweets. In a brazen move, Energy Secretary Rick Perry has ignored the findings of his own grid study and proposed a new federal rule that would effectively force Americans to...
Trump’s draconian budget proposals will destroy US clean energy innovation
Building and installing the power sources of the future will create manufacturing and manual jobs nationwide—but that will only happen if Trump re-thinks his budget.
Trump officials rewrite Energy Dept. study to make renewables look bad, fail anyway
Rick Perry-commissioned study finds renewables don’t hurt grid reliability but do help stabilize prices.
Trump’s Golden Goose Egg –> Killing the fastest growing energy sector: renewable energy | Eclectablog
Yesterday the Trump administration put out a press release titled
House slashes funding for clean energy, restores funding for fossil fuel research
Republicans targeted a Massachusetts wind project and social cost of carbon.
Former President Jimmy Carter Just Made a Solar Farm to Power Half His City
Jimmy Carter leased 10 acres of land to build a solar farm with the capacity to meet more than 50 percent of the energy needs of his hometown.
Here’s what we know so far about Rick Perry’s fake power grid study – and it isn’t good
Perry’s
Trump Budget Proposes Deep Cuts in Energy Innovation Programs
The spending plan also calls for raising billions of dollars by opening up public lands to oil and gas drilling and selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Trump kills coal pollution rule that reportedly would have created as many jobs as it cost
The Stream Protection Rule would have cost an average 260 jobs a year and created 250 positions annually, a government report said.
Rick Perry’s early days as Energy Secretary have been a bonanza for corporations and the Koch Brothers
Perry is now the head of an agency he wanted to abolish
A state Gov. & Pres. candidate and he didn’t know important functions of the Dept., but now that it will profit him…
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Petrochemical Booster Rick Perry Rides to the Rescue of the Fracking Industry
Trump’s Energy Department is backing a dirty petrochemical plan
Trump administration approves seismic surveys for Atlantic drilling, including off Maryland coast
In addition to harming sea life, acoustic tests — in which boats tugging rods pressurized for sound emit jet engine-like booms 10 to 12 seconds apart for days and sometimes months — can disrupt thriving commercial fisheries.
Public land drilling contributes a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions in US: report
Drilling on public lands contributes nearly a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to a new Trump administration report.
Big oil asks government to protect it from climate change
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — As the nation plans new defenses against the more powerful storms and higher tides expected from climate change, one project stands out: an ambitious proposal to build a nearly 60-mile
Trump signs repeal of transparency rule for oil companies
The regulation would have required energy companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments.
Oil Drilling Is—Literally!—Shaking Up Oklahoma
Oil drillers duck and cover to avoid responsibility for the earthquakes they’re causing
Oil, gas and coal interests filling Donald Trump’s ‘swamp’ with cash – Center for Public Integrity
Fossil fuel giants spent millions on lobbying, inauguration during early 2017
Millions at risk from fracking-related earthquakes, scientists say
Overall numbers of suspected man-made earthquakes has fallen as states try to restrict activities causing the shaking, but parts of Oklahoma and Kansas still plagued by strong events.
Natural Gas Fracking Poisons Water Supplies | Heal Naturally
Natural gas fracking operations have been found to poison nearby water wells, harming the drinking water in the region.
Rising Levels of Toxic Gas Found in Homes Near Fracking Sites
Levels of radon have been rising measurably in Pennsylvania since the controversial practice of fracking started there, researchers say.
COAL
President Trump And Allies Push To Save A Very Specific Coal Plant
President Trump and other Republicans are pressuring the Tennessee Valley Authority not to close a coal plant in Kentucky. A major Trump backer supplies the plant with most of its coal.
A coal executive’s “action plan” for President Trump has been made public. The administration's moves on environmental and climate policy have in multiple instances overlapped with the items in the memo.
Coal executive Bob Murray says he gave the Trump administration a three-and-a-half page
Cost of New E.P.A. Coal Rules: Up to 1,400 More Deaths a Year
The Trump administration unveiled its overhaul of pollution rules for coal-fired power plants, and its analysis shows an increase of up to 1,400 premature deaths annually.
Trump Wants To Put Former Coal Executive In Charge Of Mine Safety
The company the nominee used to run was cited for dangerous practices numerous times.
Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands
A business-friendly secretary of the interior has moved to invigorate a struggling industry, reversing Obama-era restrictions to help create “wealth and jobs.”
Trump Moves to Increase Subsidy for Coal Mining on Federal Lands
Trump wants to let coal companies pay well below market rate for the right to despoil public lands and damage the climate.
Coal Does More Harm Than Good in Kentucky: $62 Million for Asthma Costs, $10 Billion for Lost Lives
by Zach Rybarczyk
Trump caps off a long day by letting coal companies dump waste into streams.
The president’s unhinged 77-minute press conference wasn’t the only news he made today. After an exhausting fracas with the media, he popped back into the Oval Office to repeal an environmental regulation restricting coal companies from polluting waterways with mining waste.Trump signed a bill undoi…
Water pollution from coal - SourceWatch
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Trump kills coal pollution rule that reportedly would have created as many jobs as it cost
The Stream Protection Rule would have cost an average 260 jobs a year and created 250 positions annually, a government report said.
NUCLEAR
It requires an amount of regulation and oversight we are not willing to authorize or fund in this day and age.
Perry Seeks To Award A No-Bid Contract To A Failing Business With Ties To Russia - The Intellectualist
Rick Perry wants to give a $115M no-bid government contract to a US nuclear firm that recently declared bankruptcy.
Senators seek oversight after Trump administration reveals nuclear energy transfers to Saudi Arabia
The Trump administration has authorized seven nuclear energy technology transfers to Saudi Arabia, angering many lawmakers.
Trump plan to reclassify nuclear waste alarms environmental groups
The proposal, which would lower the status of some high-level radioactive waste, would save money while essentially leaving the material in the ground, critics say.
Hanford workers’ comp program fails sick employees, report finds
A review from the Inspector General found the Hanford workers’ compensation process was confusing for sick employees and the Department of Energy didn’t have effective program procedures.
After Trump torches Paris agreement, nuclear companies look to lobbyist in Rick Perry’s orbit
Look no further than the infamous power plant on Three Mile Island to understand the decaying state of nuclear power. Unable to compete with cheaper fuel sources like natural gas, the plant’s owners recently announced plans to shutter the storied reactor. To stop their bottom lines from melting…
Crumbling Reactors and Other Nightmares of a Trump-Perry Energy Policy
In the area of energy policy under the presidency of Donald Trump, two concerns loom above all others.
Nuclear Waste
Safe long-term storage for nuclear waste is a top priority—but it hasn’t happened
Dangers and Effects of Nuclear Waste Disposal
Nuclear Waste Disposal Nuclear has long been considered a great way to generate the power that lights and heats our homes. It can generate electricity without greenhouse gas emissions. However, after a few terrible disasters in Nuclear power plants around the world, people have become more and more …
Looking for a Trash Can: Nuclear waste management in the United States - Science in the News
by Madeleine Jennewein figures by Rebecca Senft Across the United States, nuclear waste is accumulating in poorly maintained piles. 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste requiring disposal are currently in temporary storage. The United States, however, has yet to construct a long-term storage solution…
