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By Steve Horn, on August 3, 2012, at 8:00 am shutterstock_30322192.jpg
Most people think of downtown Houston, Texas as ground zero for the oil and gas industry. Houston, after all, serves as home base for corporate headquarters of oil and gas giants, including the likes of BP America, ConocoPhillips, and Shell Oil Company, to name a few.
Comparably speaking, few would think of Wilmington, Delaware in a similar vein. But perhaps they should, according to a recent New York Times investigative report by Leslie Wayne.
Wayne's story revealed that Delaware serves as what journalist Nicholas Shaxson calls a "Treasure Island" in his recent book by that namesake. It's an "onshore
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: Delaware Tax Haven: The Other Shale Gas Industry Loophole
By Steve Horn, on June 29, 2012, at 1:45 pm Rational Middle Logo.jpeg
The "Rational Middle Energy Series," directed and produced by Gregory Kallenberg, is hot off the film rolls and has already been screened at an influential venue: the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Kallenberg also directed and produced the documentary film "Haynesville: A Nation’s Hunt for An Energy Future," a film about the ongoing shale gas boom in the United States and a counterpart, of sorts, to Josh Fox’s Academy Award-nominated documentary "Gasland."
Kallenberg, in a press release announcing the film series’ launch, stated,
Through our travels with 'Haynesville,' no
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: New Documentary "Rational Middle": Oil and Gas Advertising in Disguise
By Steve Horn, on May 2, 2012, at 1:04 pm shutterstock_95581429.jpg
19th Century German statesman Otto von Bismarck once said, "If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made."
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), put on the map by the Center for Media and Democracy in its "ALEC Exposed" project, is the archetype of von Bismarck's truism. So too are the fracking chemical disclosure bills that have passed and are currently being pushed for in statehouses nationwide.
State-level fracking chemical disclosure bills have been called a key piece of reform in the push to hold the unconventional gas
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: ALEC Wasn’t First Industry Trojan Horse Behind Fracking Disclosure Bill – Enter Council of State Governments
By Steve Horn, on April 24, 2012, at 6:52 pm ALEC Exposed Image.jpg
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), as covered previously by DeSmogBlog, is the "Trojan Horse" behind mandating that climate change denial ("skepticism," or "balance," in its words) be taught in K-12 classrooms.
Well, ALEC is at it again, it appears. Facing an IRS complaint filed by Common Cause, one of the leading advocacy groups working to expose the corporate-funded bill mill, ALEC has also launched an assault on renewable energy legislation, according to a well-documented report written by Bloomberg News.
The two developments are worth unpacking.
Common Cause IRS Complaint
The Washington Post
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: ALEC Launches Assault on Renewable Energy Industry
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