Andy Rowell

Andy Rowell is a staff blogger for Oil Change International in addition to working as a freelance writer and investigative journalist who specializes in environmental, health and lobbying issues. Follow him on Twitter: @andy_rowell
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Views Thursday, March 22, 2018 “I’m Taking This Action To Protect My Grandchildren’s Future” Just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you cannot stop taking action for what you believe in. And yesterday was a case in point. Two seventy year olds, still putting their bodies on the line for environmental justice and indigenous rights. Early yesterday morning, the first seventy year old, a... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 07, 2018 Coast Guard Responders 'Harmed by Chemicals Used to Clean Up BP’s Spill' Sometimes, there is absolutely nothing worse than being proven right. It is the one thing you dreaded. Ever since the horrendous Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010, I and many others warned against using the toxic chemical called Corexit arguing that it would do more damage than good. The potential... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 26, 2018 Time For The Teens To Take On The Kochs Over Climate Since the horrific Parkland shooting in which seventeen high school children were murdered in Florida, people from around the world have watched in admiration at the way the traumatised survivors have taken on the National Rifle Association and politicians who are in the gun lobby’s pocket. They... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 20, 2018 2018 Starts With “Record Lows In Arctic Sea Ice Extent” And so it goes on. The data does not lie. The Arctic is dying before our eyes. And as it melts, we enter a vicious circle: the more it melts, so the less heat gets reflected, so the more the planet warms. And that affects us all. At the end of last year, scientists issued repeated warnings that the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 17, 2018 The Arctic – Our Climate Canary in the Coal Mine – Issues Further Warnings There is an ongoing scientific debate as to how much influence our changing climate had on the extreme cold snap or what some call “bomb cyclone” in the Northeastern US. As usual, there is an active discussion. Last week, World Weather Attribution claimed that the US has always epxerience cold... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 02, 2018 As Trump’s Climate Denial Continues, Experts Take Flight to France Many East Coasters will be returning to work today in bitter cold conditions after the second-coldest New Year on record. The low temperatures over the festive period did not go unnoticed by President Donald Trump who tweeted in late December: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 19, 2017 Welcome to the “New Arctic”: The Region “As We Once Knew It Is No More” For many people in the Northern Hemisphere who celebrate Christmas, the iconic image is one of snow or a Santa Claus driving a sleigh through the snow driven by reindeer. Depending on which version of the Santa Claus story you read, his home is in the Arctic, possibly at the North Pole. Images of... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 27, 2017 Climate-Denying Koch Brothers Help Buy Time Magazine Last night, the media company, Meredith, announced it was buying Time magazine for an estimated $2.8 billion. Meredith Corporation Chairman and CEO, Stephen Lacy, said: “We are creating a premier media company serving nearly 200 million American consumers across industry-leading digital, television... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 07, 2017 Scientists Argue Gas Isn’t “Green” & Call for Urgent Phase Out Across EU For decades the oil industry has employed an ingenious yet deceitful public relations strategy in response to climate change, largely copied from the playbook refined to perfection by the tobacco barons and their spin-doctors. In the nineties, their initial response was to deny the problem of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 17, 2017 From Ophelia to the Amazon: the Unthinkable Becomes Thinkable As I write, Ireland is being battered by ex-Hurricane Ophelia, with many schools closed and the Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, calling the storm a national emergency. The Taoiseach said Ophelia was the worst storm to hit the country in 50 years. Currently, one person has died and 120,000 are... Read more |