Gue Talks BP Losses, Natural Gas Climb

Elliott Gue, editor of The Energy Letter and The Energy Strategist, joins Clean Skies News to discuss the week's oil and natural gas inventories and just how much profit BP has already lost.

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50-Year Oil Spill Lingers in Brooklyn

Until the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, this was the largest oil spill in U.S. History. It took several decades to happen, and even longer to clean up. It's the oil spill that sent by some EPA estimates more than 30 million gallons of crude and petro-chemicals underneath the streets in the Greenpoint section of  Brooklyn. Clean Skies Lee Patrick Sullivan went to the streets of Brooklyn to check on the on going clean up of this massive spill.

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ANALYSIS: The Kyoto Trap

The Kyoto Protocol – is it an absolute must in the global climate battle – or an idea whose time has long passed? Or is it something more – a destructive cul-de-sac that has kept the world from really tackling climate change?

During the latest UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bonn over the last two weeks, delegates once again took up extending Kyoto Protocol commitments beyond their current expiration date in 2012. Extending the protocol was one of two major negotiating “tracks” set up two and a half years ago in Bali – and neither one has been settled yet.

For Kyoto, the arguments haven’t changed much either.

Protocol advocates say it’s the only legally binding treaty in force that begins to restore equity worldwide. It requires the advanced – or Annex I – countries, the ones who industrialized first and emitted much of the carbon now causing atmospheric warming, to cut their carbon emissions first. Meanwhile, non-Annex I countries, the developing economies, get their turn at fossil-intensive development. The developed...

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Can Biofuels be an Alternative to Oil?

The Gulf oil spill has shown humans helpless in the face of an ecological disaster stemming from the search for more and more oil. But what are the alternatives for the U.S. …-- a country that every day uses a quarter of the oil consumed worldwide -- two-thirds of that oil used for transportation.  Clean Skies' Margaret Ryan reports on what else is available to fuel the vehicles we depend on.

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Coming Up This Sunday - 06/06/10

Coming up this week, Clean Skies Sunday assesses the economic impact of the halt in offshore drilling following the BP spill. Also, Executive Editor Margaret Ryan looks at alternatives for fueling the nation's vehicles. And Lee Patrick Sullivan tracks a high voltage transmission project to bring clean power from Canada to the U.S. underwater. That and more, this Sunday morning on WJLA TV, Channel 7 at 930 AM in the DC metro area.. And thereafter here, at cleanskies.com

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DOD, VA Residents: Offshore Drilling is Unsafe

Clean Skies News takes you to Virginia, where an offshore drilling moratorium is in effect for at least one year, effectively halting all drilling exploration. Though Virginia's governor is pro-offshore drilling, Virginia residents and the Department of Defense are speaking out about the dangers of military testing and drilling for oil near live ammunition.

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Oceanographers Chart Oil Spill, Aftermath

While BP is efforting oil cleanup in the Gulf, scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are probing the aftermath of the rig accident to better map how the current is transporting the oil and determine where it is headed.

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Mike McKenna on Energy Issues on Capital Hill

Mike McKenna, President of MWR Strategies, talks to Clean Skies News about the latest energy issues going on in Washington, DC, politics, including the rollout of the Senate climate bill and Sen. Lisa Murkowski's disapproval resolution of the endangerment finding scheduled for June 10.

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