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Students stand up to the National Coal Council

We lack the political will to tackle climate change and transition to a low carbon energy economy. We are even willing to give up the jobs that would have been created in the process. Climate...

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Dumb and dumber in Alaska

This is a rare story about Alaska that does not involve Sarah Palin or any member of the Palin family. It does involve state budget shortfalls, corporate welfare, dirty energy, banksters, and rabid...

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Nuking global warming

We have extreme sports, extreme eating contests, and extremely unbalanced political leaders on the world stage, so why not have a little extreme climate modeling for fun? Luke Oman, a climate...

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The public health costs of coal

The environmental costs of coal extraction, emissions, and combustion waste stream are monumental. However, international development agencies such as the World Bank often fund massive coal projects...

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EPA director mocks Fox News

EPA director Lisa Jackson chided Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the parent of our beloved Fox News, for its double-talk on the value of lowering carbon emissions. News Corp. announced in 2007 that...

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Wine grapes as canaries in the climate coal mine

Global warming sucks. You have to put up with ridiculous heat waves, intensification of precipitation events, disruption of the hydrological cycle, droughts, ocean acidification, and adaptive stresses...

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De facto deregulation of shale gas drilling in PA

Pennsylvania is the epicenter of the Marcellus Shale gas boom. With that boom have come questions about the potential impact of hydraulic fracturing on groundwater supplies and the handling of...

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State regulators protect coal company fraud in eastern Kentucky

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. --Amos Bronson Alcott Eastern Kentucky is home to 60% of the mountaintop removal mines in...

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Rush speaks for Republicans (and the fossil fuels industry)

Rush Limbaugh cannot inhibit his disdain for electric and fuel efficient vehicles. No tragedy is too great to prevent his incessant sniping about anything that uses less energy or uses it more...

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Koch paper pollution chokes Ouachita River

Koch Industries have mastered regulatory capture. They have financed a skillful campaign to cripple regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and choke out renewable energy development. Their astroturf...

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Endangered penguins threatened by oil spill

"How a modern and fully-laden cargo vessel can sail straight into an island beggars belief." --Roger Cuthbert, biologist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Another story filled with...

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Scott Walker kills more jobs in Wisconsin

One of the largest wind power developers in the nation announced plans to cancel a wind development project in Wisconsin. Scott Walker can add these job losses to rail project manufacturing,...

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Falling behind in the clean energy race

We are number one in military spending, but our investment in clean energy is lagging far behind China and Germany. A new report from the Pew Foundation lays out the numbers in a report entitled,...

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Drowning America in a tar pit

As a kid way back when, I was fascinated by images of prehistoric mammals writhing in tar pits. There was something poignant about these powerful creatures as they struggled helplessly in the bubbling...

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Vitter sells snake oil

David Vitter has a new fetish. It is also the favorite lubricant of Republicans - oil. Vitter has his panties in a wad over the president's energy policy speech. "Yesterday, the president offered some...

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Punking Enbridge and its dirty little pipeline

Activist group The Yes Men have gotten under the skin of another bastion of corporate irresponsibility. The target this time is Enbridge, one of two companies that bring tar sands oil to global...

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Update on penguin rescue efforts from oil spill in south Atlantic

This is a follow-up to an earlier diary about the threat posed by oil spilled by a freighter that broke up off Nightingale Island, home to approximately half of the world's endangered Northern...

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Remembering Dr. King: A look at the Chicago Freedom Movement

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered by a sniper on this day 43 years ago. We lost more than just one of the most powerful voices for social justice we have ever had. We seem to have lost our soul....

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Typical teabag: Tom Corbett refuses to tax or regulate shale gas industry in PA

"A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845 Tea Party Republican Tom Corbett continues his scorched earth campaign as...

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Remembering the victims of a reckless corporation

This is the one-year anniversary of a massive explosion that ripped through the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, killing 29 miners and injuring 2 others. The explosion occurred at 3:27 PM as...

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