New Justice Department Policy Signals Hope for Justice in Vieques
The Justice Department announced a much-needed new policy last week that will impose strict limits on government agencies’ use of the state secrets privilege in order to block lawsuits for national...
View ArticleWheels of Justice Are Grinding Too Slowly For Paul Minor and Other Political...
Attorney General Eric Holder did not hesitate to release Senator Ted Stevens and overturn his wrongful conviction when evidence emerged of the government's botched prosecution of the former Republican...
View ArticlePuerto Rican Government Threatens Terrorism Charges For Laid-Off Workers At...
A controversial plan by Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuno to lay off 17,000 government workers in the coming weeks, and possibly up to 30,000 in the coming months, has enraged the island's labor...
View ArticleWhy is Paul Minor Still Behind Bars?
In a recent unanimous decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned federal bribery charges against prominent Mississippi trial attorney Paul Minor, offering a ray of hope that Minor will...
View ArticleThe Profound 1st Amendment Implications of Paul Minor's SCOTUS Appeal
Paul Minor, the former Mississippi attorney turned political prisoner, is set to file a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to address the central issue in his case - whether a U.S. citizen can be...
View ArticleGOP Chooses Lord "Hitler Youth" Monckton as Expert Witness on Climate Change...
House Republicans have chosen Lord Christopher Monckton, a non-scientist with a penchant for outrageous remarks, as its sole witness at tomorrow’s hearing in front of the Select Committee on Energy...
View ArticleGulf Coast Attorneys File RICO Class Action Lawsuits Against BP
Gulf Coast law firms Levin Papantonio, Eastland Law and others have begun filing a series of civil RICO actions in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama to hold BP accountable for the false...
View ArticlePaul LePage Maine GOP Tea Party Candidate For Governor Wants to "Punch"...
After-interview footage has been released showing Paul LePage, Republican candidate and Tea Party favorite for Governor in Maine telling a news anchor that he is about ready to punch a radio reporter.
View ArticleCharles Koch Challenged To Debate Prop 23 By California Student Leader Joel...
Joel Francis, a Marine Corps veteran and senior at Cal State Los Angeles, has issued a debate challenge to Koch Industries' billionaire CEO Charles Koch on his support for the disastrous Prop 23 attack...
View ArticleGasland Critic ‘Energy In Depth’ Was Created By Major Oil and Gas Cos...
DeSmogBlog has uncovered an industry memo revealing that ‘Energy In Depth’ is hardly comprised of the mom-and-pop “small, independent oil and natural gas producers” it claims to represent. In fact,...
View ArticleNYT Fracking story: Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers
Incredible NYTimes piece on dangers of fracking on drinking water, public health and the environment. Excerpt:"...thousands of internal documents obtained by The New York Times from the Environmental...
View Article"Fracking" Shale Gas Emissions Far Worse Than Coal For Climate - Cornell Study
The Hill reported this morning on a groundbreaking report from Cornell University researchers confirming that shale gas recovered through high volume hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” will produce...
View ArticleDenial For Hire: Willie Soon’s Career Fueled by Big Oil, Coal and Koch Money
Willie Soon, the notorious climate denier who has made a career out of attacking the IPCC and climate scientists, has received over $1 million in funding from Big Oil and coal industry sponsors over...
View ArticleEIA's Politically Dictated “Garbage” Subsidy Report Obtained And Released...
Originally published at DeSmogBlog The Checks and Balances Project has obtained a copy of the controversial Energy Information Administration report that was called “garbage” by EIA Acting...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's State Department Oil Services and the Keystone XL Tar Sands...
With over 700 people arrested so far in the Keystone XL tar sands action taking place at the Obama White House, and widespread distrust and criticism of the State Department's final Environmental...
View ArticleDid UK Police Quietly Sideline ‘Climategate’ Hacker Investigation?
To view the graphics associated with this story visit the orignal post at DeSmogBlog.comThe UK police force tasked with investigating the hacking of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit...
View ArticleInternal Documents Shed Light on Heartland Institute Climate Denial Machine
Apologies this isn't formatted well, original may be easier to read. It 's at http://www.desmogblog.com/...Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the...
View ArticleWhat Chesapeake Energy's Financial Scandals Mean For The Rest of Us
Given radioactive wastewater, earthquakes, and flammable tap water, one might think that drilling and fracking could not possibly have any more dirty secrets. But here’s the biggest secret of all: it’s...
View ArticleBreaking Up With Polluters To Save The Climate: CCSOS
One of the largest roadblocks that limit efforts to secure a safe global climate for the 21st century and beyond is that our elected representatives are trapped in an abusive relationship with the...
View ArticleRepresent.Us Campaign Launched To Promote Anti-Corruption Act
The time has come. Today marks the launch of an interesting new bi-partisan campaign to get corporate money out of U.S. politics. Two new sites - Represent.Us and AntiCorruptionAct.org - contain...
View ArticleFrackalypse Now: Mark Fiore Spoofs Oil Industry's PSYOPS Campaign To Derail...
DeSmogBlog partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." Making its debut today in honor of Gasland 2,...
View ArticleClimate Denier Steve Milloy Now Director at Coal Giant Murray Energy, On CPAC...
The Junkman has a new job, and yet again it involves defending fossil fuels and attacking science. Steve Milloy, who long ago dubbed himself "The Junkman," is listed as Director of External Policy...
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