2017 ended on a note of common sense when on December 28, Monterey County Superior Court Judge Thomas Willis issued a strongly argued “intended decision” on Measure Z, the activist attempt to ban all oil and gas development in the County through a prohibition on...
In Colorado and across the west, there is overwhelming bipartisan support for responsible oil and gas development. It’s no wonder, therefore, that “Keep It In the Ground” groups are left with only bad theater, political stunts, and threats to make their case in the west....
The “Keep it In the Ground” movement has been a reliable source of ridiculous antics over the years, and 2017 has been no exception. In fact, anti-fracking stunts have been so absurd this year it’s downright scary! So in celebration of Halloween, here’s our list...
In a recent radio segment produced by Yale Climate Connections, Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale Project on Climate Change and Leia Guccione of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) portray California as a state with excess energy resources. In reality, this isn’t true. Dr. Leiserowitz claims...
This week Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) annual conference is being held in Pittsburgh, Pa. — a town that has been dubbed “The Energy Capital of the East” thanks to the abundance of Marcellus Shale natural gas nearby. Pittsburgh is a prime example of a city...
Donations and endorsements from groups with ties to major anti-fossil fuel donors like California billionaire Tom Steyer are making their way into a city council race in Colorado. The question is: why now? This fall, voters will have the opportunity to go to the polls...
The usual anti-fossil fuel suspects, Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), are “searching for water in the desert” with a new lawsuit filed to challenge the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) June sale of oil and gas leases in Nevada, a state with...
Anthony Ingraffea, a notorious anti-fracking activist and a professor of engineering at Cornell University, is yet again planning to take his misleading anti-fracking claims on the road – this time to Florida – in his ongoing campaign to stop all fossil fuel development. The Conservancy...
National anti-fracking groups spent weeks advertising the “three massive rallies against fracking” held this past weekend in Cleveland, Columbus and Marietta. But EID was on the ground in all three locations and can confirm the entire “Ohio-wide” effort garnered a total of just 47 protesters,...
With Florida lawmakers back in their home districts, Washington, D.C.-based “ban fracking” activist group Food & Water Watch (FWW) is using the next six months to peddle anti-fossil fuel rhetoric before the state legislature reconvenes in January. As a part of its nationwide campaign, FWW...
In a classic case of irony, out-of-state group Earthworks sent a campaign organizer 2,569 miles (no doubt using oil and gas) to Marietta, Ohio, last week to rally a whopping 15 anti-fracking activist for the “huge” anti-fracking Ohio River Rising Rally & March. As EID...
It is often forgotten that California has a robust, century-old oil and gas industry that has helped power the state’s rise into a cultural and economic superpower, all while operating under the strictest environmental regulations in the nation. This is why recent anti-industry attacks from...