"Extraordinary pricing opportunities will lower utility costs by an estimated $53 million in the first year and even more thereafter."
Oklahoma goes for Wind Oliver Tickell | 22nd October 2013 News Wind Energy Power USA Oklahoma Renewables "Extraordinary pricing opportunities will lower utility costs by an estimated $53 million in …
Thieves are stealing valuable growths of bud tissue from the trunks of Coast redwood trees in California, putting their long term survival at risk. Park authorities have responded by closing a road used by the thieves at night.
Redwood thieves force California forest curfew Oliver Tickell | 6th March 2014 News Forests USA Wildlife Trade redwood-burr.png Thieves are stealing valuable growths of bud tissue from the trunks of …
When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
Alabama - a community fights toxic waste, discrimination Oliver Tickell | 20th August 2014 News Waste Toxics USA Fossil Fuels Coal coal-ash-stinks-cut.jpg When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill …
Large scale salmon deaths are imminent on the Klamath River and its tributaries in northern California due to low flows and high temperatures. Native American tribes are protesting in the state capital as federal agencies illegally prioritize water for large scale agribusiness over fish and indigenous people.
… will not give up our fight for the salmon Karuk tribal member Molli White said: …
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the withdrawal of an ad extolling the virtues of fracking, ruling that it is misleading, exaggerating, and lacks substantiation. In the process it has undermined the Government's entire case for fracking in the UK.
… Oliver Tickell | 3rd September 2014 News UK Fracking Politics USA fracking-well-louisiana-cut.jpg The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has … Government's entire case for fracking in the UK. A reader of the Daily Telegraph saw red on …
A legal challenge to a draconian Idaho law that outlaws free speech about animal abuses on factory farms has survived a 'motion to dismiss' in a federal court. The challenge, mounted by free speech, animal welfare, food and environment groups, claims the 'ag gag' law is unconstitutional.
Success for challenge to Idaho 'ag-gag' law Oliver Tickell | 5th September 2014 News Farming Law Politics Corporations USA bettencourt-dairy-idaho.jpg A dairy worker kicks a cow on the nose in the …
China and the US have jointly pledged to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, as the Presidents of the two countries met for talks today in Beijing. The move is boosting hopes for the UN climate summit in Paris in 2015 - but is it really enough to restrain temperature rises?
US-China climate deal raises hopes of agreement in 2015 Oliver Tickell | 12th November 2014 News Climate Change USA China Un mulan-wind-farm-china-cut.jpg China and the US have jointly pledged to …
Would UKIP be riding so high if voters knew of the party's links with powerful right-wing US corporate interests promoting fossil fuels, denying climate change, opposing gun control, and supporting big tobacco, teaching creationism in schools, healthcare privatisation and the lifting of nuclear power regulation? An Ecologist investigation exposes the real UKIP.
… UKIP uncut - acoloytes of America's far-right … Tickell | 21st November 2014 News Politics UK USA Climate Change Fossil Fuels helmer-marita-noon-cut.jpg Would UKIP be riding so high if voters knew of the …
Long-disused oil and gas wells in the US have been found to be a 'significant' source of the super greenhouse gas methane, writes Richard Heasman. The climate impact of oil and gas is underestimated, as this long term impact is not included in existing calculations.
… 2014 News Oil Gas Fracking Climate Change USA UK drake-oil-well-pa-cut.jpg Long-disused oil … difference." Political hype With the UK coalition government's hard-line pursuit of … on the local environment. Talking to DeSmogUK, Greenpeace UK's chief scientist Professor …
The same pattern of severe droughts that extinguished the Ancient Pueblo culture of the southwest US in the 13th century will come back with a vengeance later this century as climate warms and dries, writes Tim Radford. And it could have precisely the same effect on the region's modern-day residents.
Southwest USA faces long term 'megadroughts' this century Tim Radford Oliver Tickell | 17th February 2015 News Climate Change Water USA mesaverde_cliffpalace-cut.jpg The same pattern of severe …
The latest salvo in the battle over Africa's seed systems has been fired, writes Stephen Greenberg, with the Gates Foundation and USAID playing puppet-masters to Africa's governments - now meeting in Addis Ababa - as they drive forward corporation-friendly seed regulations that exclude and marginalize the small farmers whose seeds and labour feed the continent.
Grabbing Africa's seeds: USAID, EU and Gates Foundation back agribusiness seed takeover Stephen Greenberg Oliver Tickell | 23rd March 2015 News Africa Farming Seeds Corporations USA EU maria banda …
An elite group of aid donors and agribusiness corporations met in London this week to plan the takeover of Africa's seeds, writes Ian Fitzpatrick, replacing traditional seed breeding and saving by small farmers with a corporate model of privatized, 'improved', patented, genetically uniform and hybrid seeds in a profit-driven market.
… Africa Food Farming Corporations Seeds USA UK teff-harvest-cut.jpg An elite group of aid … in Africa, and donor organisations like the UK's Department for International Development …
British MPs have rebuked the government for its secretive and apathetic response to public concerns over the TTIP EU-US trade deal, demanding that nations' 'right to regulate' for health, environment and the wider public interest must stand at the heart of any future agreement.
… Tickell | 26th March 2015 News Trade Politics UK EU USA ttip-what-lies-beneath-cut.jpg … British MPs have rebuked the government for its secretive and … provisions. We are deeply concerned that the UK Government is not planning to submit a …
Days after Shell received US Government backing for its plans to drill in the Chukchi Sea in the Alaskan Arctic, volunteers from Greenpeace have occupied its 'Polar Pioneer' oil rig in the Pacific Ocean to demand a halt to all Arctic oil exploration.
… backing for its plans to drill in the Chukchi Sea in the Alaskan Arctic, volunteers … lease on oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea, taking it - and other oil companies … that currently both has licences in the Chukchi Sea and intends to drill there this …
The Tea Party of Miami put up a convincing demo last week to oppose a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades conservation. Just one problem - the 'protestors' were actors each being paid $75 for the two-hour shift.
Tea Party's fake protestors for Big Sugar against Florida Everglades Oliver Tickell | 8th April 2015 News Farming Politics USA Pollution Waste Water big-suar-protest.jpg The Tea Party of Miami put up …
The world's smart money is piling into renewable energy, solar power in particular, write Tim Radford & Oliver Tickell, as renewables pull away from fossil fuels in terms of both investment and new generation capacity added each year.
Investors pile in as renewables rise to record level Tim Radford Oliver Tickell | 16th April 2015 News Renewables Solar Science USA ivanhaw-solar-cut.jpg The world's smart money is piling into …
Three in one: EFSA set to re-licence glyphosate based on secret industry studies; Monsanto moves against IARC verdict that glyphosate is a 'probable carcinogen'; and new science shows that FDA principle of GMO 'substantial equivalence' is bunk.
… that's closely connected to Monsanto UK - which even runs their website for them. …
The magnitude of Corbyn's victory today represents an irreversible seismic shift in British politics, writes Oliver Tickell. Finally the Tories face serious, principled opposition that will reveal them as the far-right ideologues they truly are. The reverberations will echo far, wide, long and deep, including to the US where the socialist Bernie Sanders is well on his way to winning the Democratic nomination.
… 12th September 2015 News Politics Energy War UK USA Trade Finance corbyn-speech-cut.jpg The … whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine or elsewhere; unquestioning support … thing about Corbyn is that he is not merely luke-warm on some of these issues in the manner …
US President Obama today refused to permit the 1,200 mile Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Nebraska that would have carried 800,000 barrels of oil a year of tarsands oil into the US, citing climate concerns.
Obama rejects KXL pipeline - it's the climate! Oliver Tickell | 6th November 2015 News USA Canada Energy Oil Tarsands Politics kxl-demo-cut.jpg US President Obama today refused to permit the 1,200 …
The latest text of the Paris Agreement on climate change published today sets 1.5C as its 'long term temperature goal', half a degree lower than previously agreed. It's a big victory for poor 'climate vulnerable' countries - and a blow for Saudi Arabia.
… change advocacy coordinator, told Desmog UK: "Saudi Arabia is blocking these very … economies than Saudi Arabia - including the UK, EU, France, Canada, Australia, Sweden and … 10th largest CO 2 emitter - more than the UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia and …
The small state of Vermont is changing the face of US food as companies hasten to comply with its GMO labeling rule which comes into effect in July 2016. Mars and General Mills - and now Kelloggs and ConAgra - are the latest companies to announce their labels will comply with Vermont law US-wide - and many more are sure to follow.
Soon a flood? Mars, General Mills begin US-wide GMO labels Oliver Tickell | 22nd March 2016 News GMOs Food Law Politics Corporations USA f160471_spaghettios_new_labels-0091-cut.jpg The small state of …
A federal judge has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency is under no obligation to force pesticide makers to disclose supposedly 'inert' ingredients in their products - even where those ingredients are seriously hazardous to health or environment.
Judge rules: no right to know hazardous pesticide ingredients Oliver Tickell | 14th June 2016 News Law Toxics Pesticides FOI Regulation USA pesticide-packs-cut.jpg A federal judge has ruled that the …
The Conservation Law Foundation has just filed the first lawsuit against ExxonMobil for violations under the Clean Water Act and other laws, committed in its deliberate, reckless and deceitful cover-up of it's true knowledge of the dangers of climate change.
ExxonMobil sued over climate cover-up Oliver Tickell | 30th September 2016 News Law Climate Change Corporations USA mystic-river-cut.jpg The Conservation Law Foundation has just filed the first …
A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause Oliver Tickell | 25th April 2017 News Fracking Health Water Pollution USA Science judys-water-cut.jpg A new study in Pennsylvania, USA …