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Category Archives: Environment
‘Gulf of America’ Bill was a Joke
And it fooled almost everyone. But hell, we’ve been bombarded with crap like this (“freedom fries” etc) for so long, it’s no wonder we fell for it. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — All the people outraged about the Mississippi bill to … Continue reading
It’s Cold in Alaska and Al Gore is Fat
Sarah Palin on her Facebook (ugh): A friend emailed me this notice from her local Alaskan school today. As the school notice makes clear: anything above -55 degrees below zero is warm enough for our Alaskan young’uns! Global warming? What … Continue reading
More Nuclear Power, Please.
Another close call with a nuclear power plant. BYRON, Ill. (AP) — A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear … Continue reading
Keystone is Dead
As predicted, the Keystone XL pipeline has now been officially rejected by the Obama Administration after the Republicans chose to hasten the timeline for approval with a rider inserted into legislation that extended payroll tax-cuts and unemployment benefits for 2 … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Oil, Environment, John Boehner, Keystone XL, Oil, President Obama, State Department
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More Than The Previous 40 years
I believe this is the change we believe in and the change we have received. With two years of the Obama administration, almost four times as much clean energy has been put on the grid on public lands as in … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, Environment, Green Energy, President Obama, Republicans
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Happy Fracking New Year
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 struck an area of Ohio not prone to earthquakes on News Year’s Eve and this quickly lead some to speculate that fracking may be the cause. On New Year’s Eve, a magnitude 4.0 … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, Environment, Fracking, Natural Gas, Regulations
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PBS Newshour: The Extreme Weather of 2011
Watch How 2011 Became a ‘Mind-Boggling’ Year of Extreme Weather on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. I’m sure everyone viewing this was affected by at least one of these events. Hopefully the trend doesn’t continue this year. Share
Under-Reported Good News
Congress failed to renew the subsidy for corn-based ethanol before leaving D.C. for the holidays. When the U.S. Congress adjourned for the holidays on Friday, December 23, its departure sealed the fate of subsidized ethanol production. During its session, the … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Environment
Tagged Agribusiness, Agriculture, Congress, Corn, Environment, Ethanol, Subsidies
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A Major Environmental Victory Just Got Better
Remember the victory scored this week by the Obama Administration on mercury emissions? This “very big deal” just got bigger. The EPA’s official analysis of the impact of mercury on kids’ brains is limited to the impact on wages of … Continue reading
A Major Environmental Victory for the Obama Admin.
File this on top of the increasingly-large stack of policies on the back-burner for decades that the Obama Administration is finally implementing. Wednesday, at long last, the EPA unveiled its new rule covering mercury and other toxic emissions from coal- … Continue reading
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Tagged Both Sides Meme, Environment, EPA, President Obama, Regulations
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What Recession?
Good news everyone, Wall Street is all set to have a very jolly Christmas. No word on whether or not any of that jollyness will trickle-down, though. According to a new report from The New Bottom Line and The Public … Continue reading
The Worst Record of Any Congress…
..on the environment. Among other things. According to ThinkProgress, our Tea Party congress has voted no less than 191 times to undermine environmental protection, garnering the distinction of having the worst record of any congress in history. – 27 votes … Continue reading
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Tagged Both Sides Meme, Climate Change, Congress, Environment, EPA, Tea Party
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Reasonable Republican Becomes Less Reasonable
Jon Huntsman appears to be softening on his position regarding the man-made climate crisis: “The scientific community owes us more in terms of a better description of explanation about what might lie beneath all of this. But there’s not information … Continue reading
Foaming at the Mouth
Dr. Douglas Brinkley, a historian at Rice University, testified before the House Natural Resources Committee today on the dangers of drilling for oil and gas in the National Wildlife Refuge located in the Arctic region of Alaska. Following Dr. Brinkley’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Arctic Wildlife Refuge, Congress, Don Young, Drill Baby Drill, Energy, Oil
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Mitt Romney is a Dumbstupid
Staggeringly dumb: “Now I know there is also a movement to say that carbon dioxide should be guided or should be managed by the Environmental Protection Agency. I disagree with that,” he said at a Manchester, New Hampshire event, furthering … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Crisis, Election 2012, Environment, Mitt Romney
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Deliberate Censorship
Bad news for anyone who was hoping to watch BBC cover climate change in the same commendable fashion as they covered the Earth’s oceans in the documentary series Blue Planet. You’ll have to wait for the dvd or turn to … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Censorship, Climate Change, Discovery Channel, Global Warming
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A Record Year for Billion-Dollar Disasters
The growing trend between 1980 and 2010 is obviously that major natural disasters are becoming more frequent and more costly, and that trend has been unrelenting in 2011, with a new record being set for the number of billion-dollar disasters … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Economy, Global Warming, Natural Disasters
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Freak Weather Events to Become More Freaky
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which will be released in-full this month, warns that extreme weather events are almost certainly going to become more frequent and the costs of those events will continue to increase. … Continue reading
The Climate Crisis Is Happening Now
Too many people think global warming is a crisis that’s years away. Sometime around 2050, people will be totally screwed, etc. In reality, we’re experiencing the impact of the climate crisis right now. Weather is crazier, temperatures are higher, ocean … Continue reading
10 Mile Slick of Chocolate Milk Spotted in the Gulf
A new 10-mile-long oil-slick has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico near the Deepwater Horizon spill-site. A California nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of wildlife has discovered what seems to be a massive oil slick in … Continue reading
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Tagged BP, Deepwater Horizon, Environment, Gulf of Mexico, Oil
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