Review of Steve Coll’s ‘Private Empire’: How ExxonMobil bent Washington to its will - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/opinions/revie…

May 18 News: Vermont Becomes First U.S. State To Ban Fracking bit.ly/JS1STB

#Fracking the Keg Stand: mojo.ly/L9M3EU

Another key ingredient in how the #ALEC sausage gets made: Free-market think tanks: mojo.ly/Jb6XYM by Paul Abowd

A 'Fracked' Photograph: nyti.ms/KlRrns (Photography and combustion.)

RT Climate Desk: Thought it was bad in the US? #Australia has hottest 60 years in a millennium: mojo.ly/JDYi0b via Guardian Environment

Watch me on "BookTV" on C-Span2 this Saturday, May 19 at 11PM ET discussing my latest book, "The Race for What's Left." preview.tinyurl.com/6m6unt2

It's official: Hydro-fracking causes earthquakes in the USA! reuters.com/article/2012/0…

.American Progress takes us into the future for a look back at 2012, when we decided to continue our fossil fuel binge. americanprogress.org/issues/2012/05…

The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia (Paperback) amzn.to/Aqiymw

.Ellen Cantarow on the latest environmental disaster to hit the Mid-West. and it's not fracking. well, not exactly. tomdispatch.com/post/175544/to…

Impending oil wars! readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-3…

I see no likelihood that reports showing contamination of drinking water will stop the growth of fracking (outside of Pittsburgh!)

ExxonMobil and other giant firms are too set on making vast profits from the exploitation of US shale gas and oil.

Science: "Had T.S. Eliot been around to read this book, he might have said: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a shortage."

Land grabs--the newest front in the global resource wars: guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may…