Mayflower Oil Spill: Arkansas County Pays the Price Of Drilling and Fracking, With None Of the Benefits

Beyond having the second biggest on-land pipeline spill in U.S. history, the county in which the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline sits has also been ravaged by fracking.

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Peak Oil: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses the Looming Shale Gas Bubble

Steve Horn in Politics 2 weeks ago

Energy investor Bill Powers posits a looming shale gas bubble could lead to a domestic gas crisis akin to the one faced in the 1970's. We discuss these issues and far more in the interview below.

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Giant Corporation Threatens to Decimate Iowa's Hills For Frac Sand

Steve Horn in Science 3 weeks ago

Land rife with "frac sand," a resource necessary for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is in the crosshairs of an industry prepared to turn Iowa into the "New Saudi Arabia for Frac Sand."

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Mayflower Oil Spill: Thought Oil Was Bad Enough? Try Air Poisoning

Steve Horn in Science 3 weeks ago

ExxonMobil's Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill dumped over 500,000 gallons of toxic crude into a small Arkansas town. Now an independent study confirms it's poisoning the town's air.

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Keystone XL Workers Might Be Laying Faulty Pipeline That Could Lead to a Worst-Case Spill Scenario

Steve Horn in Science 1 month ago

Around 300,000 gallons of tar sands spilled onto the streets of Mayflower, Arkansas, last month after an oil spill. Could we something worse with the Keystone XL pipeline?

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Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill?

Steve Horn in Science 1 month ago

ExxonMobil is overseeing the FAA no fly zone in Mayflower, Arkansas, the site of a recent major ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill. Sound suspicious?

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State Department's Keystone XL Contractor Green Lights BP's Explosive Caspian Pipeline

Steve Horn in Politics 2 months ago

How much can we trust the contractor who did the Keystone XL environmental impact statement? Look no further than ERM Group's green light of the Caspian Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline.

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"Frackademia" Strikes Again at USC with "Powering California" Study Release

Steve Horn in Science 2 months ago

A new report says we could be witnessing the second-coming of a "gold rush" when it comes to fracking.

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Keystone XL Pipeline: New Study Falsly Calls Pipeline Safe

Steve Horn in Science 2 months ago

Flying in the face of the slew of scientific studies on the harms of the Keystone pipeline, the State Department determined that laying down the pipeline is environmentally sound.

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New York Fracking: NY Assembly Passes 2-Year Moratorium

Steve Horn in Politics 2 months ago

In a roll call vote of 95-40, the New York State Assembly has passed a two-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking").

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The Next Wall Street Crisis is the Fracking Bubble

Steve Horn in Politics 3 months ago

Two reports released on Tuesday conclude that the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") boom could lead to an economic crisis as big as the burst housing bubble of 2008.

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3 States Are Pushing a Bill to Require Teaching Climate Change Denial in Schools

Steve Horn in Science 4 months ago

So far this year, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona have all introduced similar legislative efforts to "balance" the teaching of climate science in schools. What makes them so similar?

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The Big-Time Money That Was Made During Election 2012

Steve Horn in Politics 6 months ago

Political campaigns are seen as a marketing opportunity for public relations and political consulting firms, a major space via which they can achieve profit margins.

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Does the Scott Walker Win in Wisconsin Recall Election Signal the Death of the Left?

Steve Horn in Politics 11 months ago

How did the left get steam-rolled so badly in Wisconsin's recall election?

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