"BP Returns to Profitability and Raises Dividend"
"LONDON — BP returned to profitability with a better-than-expected third-quarter profit, prompting the oil giant to raise its dividend."
Source: NY Times, 10/30/2012
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"Art That Irked Energy Execs Is Gone, but Wyoming Dispute Whirls On"
"LARAMIE, Wyo. -- The idea behind the sculpture that appeared on the University of Wyoming campus about 16 months ago was simple but provocative: a swirl of dead wood and lumps of coal, intended to show the link between global warming and the pine beetle infestation that has ravaged forests across the Rockies."
Source: NY Times, 10/30/2012
"National Ocean Policy Sparks Partisan Fight"
"Partisan battles are engulfing the nation’s ocean policy, showing that polarization over environmental issues doesn’t stop at the water’s edge."
Source: Wash Post, 10/29/2012
"Oil Refining's Fortunes Rise"
"THREE RIVERS, Tex. — The refinery business has long been the difficult stepchild of the oil industry, expensive to run, prone to accidents and a low-margin headache for executives who preferred drilling for gushers. But signs of the improving fortunes for the industry can be seen at Valero Energy's Three Rivers refinery here, about 70 miles south of San Antonio at the doorstep of a giant new shale oil field."
Source: NY Times, 10/25/2012
"Utah OKs First US Oil Sands Project"
"After years of working to obtain permission from the state, Alberta-based U.S. Oil Sands Inc. was given the final go-ahead Wednesday to develop the first commercial oil sands project in the US."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/25/2012
"Frontline: Did the Climate Deniers Win?"
The hour-long report on the fossil-industry and right-wing climate science denial movement broadcast on PBS Frontline Tuesday night raises a key issue. Did deniers win their fight to stop action on global warming by killing it in Congress and keeping it out of the presidential campaign?
Source: PBS Frontline, 10/25/2012
"Wine and Fracking Don't Mix, Say Vineyard Owners"
"The hillside vineyards of New York's Finger Lakes region make money producing fine Rieslings and inviting tourists to sip white wine by the water's edge. Now winery owners are worried about the prospect of a grittier kind of economic development: gas drilling."
Source: AP, 10/24/2012
"After the Boom in Natural Gas"
Fracking has brought economic boom times to some parts of the U.S. As the price of natural gas sinks, the question arises: what will happen when the boom is over?
Source: NY Times, 10/24/2012
"The Issue That Dare Not Speak Its Name"
President Obama, GOP contender Mitt Romney, and the U.S. news media moderators pointedly refused to mention climate change once during the series of four presidential debates.
Source: Green/NYT, 10/24/2012
Political Fight Escalates Over Proposed Oil Sands Pipeline To W Coast
"High-profile U.S. protesters against the Canadian oil sands are taking their activism north this week, as the battle over a pipeline that would send crude to Asia enters a critical regulatory stage."
Source: ClimateWire, 10/23/2012
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