Chevron Offers to Pay $149 Million to Settle Brazil Oil Spill Lawsuits

File under: inevitable spills, seepage with deep-water?

RIGZONE: https://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/122839/Chevron_Offers_to_Pay_149_Million_to_Settle_Brazil_Oil_Spill_Lawsuits

Deadly Ethanol: Brazil’s Sugarcane Farms Take Toll On Indigenous People

Deadly Ethanol: Brazil’s Sugarcane Farms Take Toll On Indigenous People

Economists Crunching and Debating: Will US Oil Consumption Continue its Decline?

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/12/will_us_oil_con.html

By James Hamilton, UCSD

Matt Damon's Promised Land and Industry Counter-Attack (from DESMOGBLOG.COM)

Oil and Gas Industry Set to Attack Matt Damon's "Promised Land" (via Desmogblog)

Next month Focus Features releases Matt Damon’s new movie and the oil and gas industry is worried sick about it. The movie, Promised Land, is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go forward with shale gas drilling after a team of landmen arrives in the area. Damon plays one of these…

It’s arithmetic: $4.5 billion is small change for BP | Greenpeace International

It’s arithmetic: $4.5 billion is small change for BP | Greenpeace International

McKibben and Hanley: Public Transit is One Easy Step

Think About the Transportation Sector

Bill McKibbenand Lawrence J. Hanley

Superstorm Sandy has made it clear that no matter how hard some politicians try to ignore climate change, climate change will not ignore them -- or any of us. More carbon means higher seas, the kind that inundate subways. The U.S can also thank carbon emissions for contributing to the hottest summers on record, massive wildfires, and crippling droughts. The good news is, we can take some pretty serious steps to cut carbon pretty easily -- and make lives better at the same time.

Think about the transportation sector, which accounts for 27 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from cars and trucks. Tailpipe pollution is also a major source of asthma and other illnesses -- the transport sector contributes 80 percent of the harmful air pollutants that cause 1.3 million premature deaths each year. Road fatalities claim 33,000 lives per year on average, making traffic accidents the number one killer of people under 34 in the U.S. And traffic congestion is known to elevate stress levels and reduce quality of life for millions.  READ MORE: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/think-about-the-transport_b_2247048.html

To Stop Climate Change, Students Aim at College Portfolios

Students are demanding that university endowment funds rid themselves of coal, oil and gas stocks in hopes of bringing climate change onto the national political agenda...... READ MORE

Why the World Bank Must Divest from Fossil Fuels | The Nation

Why the World Bank Must Divest from Fossil Fuels | The Nation

Media Matters: The Anti-Science Capitalists at Work

Meet The Climate Denial Machine

Blog ››› November 28, 2012 3:16 PM EST ››› JILL FITZSIMMONS

Despite the overwhelming consensus among climate experts
that human activity is contributing to rising global
temperatures, 66 percent of Americans incorrectly
believe there is "a lot of disagreement among scientists
about whether or not global warming is happening." The
conservative media has fueled this confusion by
distorting scientific research, hyping faux-scandals,
and giving voice to groups funded by industries that
have a financial interest in blocking action on climate
change. Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets have shied
away from the "controversy" over climate change and have
failed to press U.S. policymakers on how they will
address this global threat. When climate change is
discussed, mainstream outlets sometimes strive for a
false balance that elevates marginal voices and enables
them to sow doubt about the science even in the face of
mounting evidence.

Here, Media Matters looks at how conservative media 
outlets give industry-funded "experts" a platform, 
creating a polarized misunderstanding of climate science.... READ MORE