LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Prominent scientist and environmental activist Michael Mann used a congressional hearing this week to raise money for his political action committee and to belittle various climate change skeptics in Congress. Mann, a climatologist at Pennsylvania State University, spent most his testimony before The House Science Committee criticizing Republican…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White ExxonMobil was ordered Wednesday to disclose a trove of missing emails from an alias once used by the company’s former CEO for communicating with the oil producer’s other executives. A judge directed Exxon to hand over the communications to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat who…
By Michael Bastasch Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker told a D.C.-based libertarian think tank he would be withdrawing a subpoena he sent the group in April as part of a broader investigation into ExxonMobil’s global warming stance — and in the same email threatened more legal actions against the group. “Attorney General Walker’s subpoena…
Chris White Crude oil prices rose to $35 per barrel Thursday amid signs the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia are considering working together to slow the world’s oil production. While the possibility of higher oil pries might mean more pain at the pump for consumers, the same cannot be said for…