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...
View ArticleDumb 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...
View ArticleNuking 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleEPA 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...
View ArticleWine 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...
View ArticleDe 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleRush 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...
View ArticleKoch 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...
View ArticleEndangered 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...
View ArticleScott 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,...
View ArticleFalling 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,...
View ArticleDrowning 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...
View ArticleVitter 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...
View ArticlePunking 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...
View ArticleUpdate 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...
View ArticleRemembering 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....
View ArticleTypical 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...
View ArticleRemembering 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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