Last week, NPR took a deeper look at the natural gas boom in the U.S. The special series, “The Fracking Boom: Missing Answers,” questions what the gas boom is doing to the air and water in communities where fracking has become a household name…
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Over the last few weeks, Heartland has lost at least $825,000 in expected funds for 2012. This equates to more than 35 percent of the funds it’s planned to raise from corporate donors, according to Forecast the Facts…
Instead of focusing on new sources of clean energy and jobs created by American innovation, which will reduce our addiction to oil and enhance public health, API’s recent report envisions an America that drills more, despite having…
In Durban the world agreed to develop a new climate plan by 2015 to go into effect in 2020, but we need action now, and an agreement to phase down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol is the best strategy this year…
It’s bad enough that the Obama administration pawns publicly-owned coal for export, and seriously entertains approval of the tar sands pipeline. It’s as if the Obama administration wants to push climate pollution…
Although we already knew about their involvement, what is shocking is the extent of this involvement, which becomes apparent in this new investigation. The new investigation reveals that “Koch Industries has touched virtually every aspect…
Around three quarters of Europeans live in cities. Most of Europe’s wealth is generated in cities, and urban areas are particularly at risk due to climate change. Europe should seize the opportunity of improving…
Just over a week ago, the world stood up to Connect the Dots on climate impacts. 5/5/12 was a beautiful, inspiring, occasionally heartbreaking day. It’s hard to describe what it felt like to watch the world come together…
UN Global Compact Turns a Blind Eye to Corporate Malpractices
Friends of the Earth International
05-14-2012
Corporate lobbying within UN negotiations has managed to block effective solutions for global problems related to climate change, food production, poverty, water and deforestation. Instead, false…
That’s why yesterday, climate activists joined a movement fighting many of Bank of America’s short-sighted investment policies: racist and predatory lending, robo-signed foreclosures, loans for mountaintop removal…
Visualize gasoline-powered civilization arising as if by some maniacally accelerated evolutionary process. It all began so recently, in the mid-nineteenth century, and spread across the globe in mere decades. Automobiles mutated…
New Legislation Would End More Than $110 Billion in Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Friends of the Earth
05-10-2012
Today Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) announced legislation that is by far the most comprehensive attempt to end subsidies for the fossil fuels industry in the U.S…
Besieged by Climate Deniers, A Scientist Decides to Fight Back—Plus Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Interview
Michael E. Mann
05-09-2012
For more than a decade, I’ve found myself targeted and attacked by political interests who feel threatened by some facts my colleagues and I uncovered about our changing climate. We have received menacing e-mails, including anonymous death threats…
The Guardian Exposes Fossil Funded Groups Coordinating Renewable Energy Attacks
DeSmogBlog
05-09-2012
On May 8 The Guardian revealed the network of fossil-funded groups coordinating the ongoing onslaught of attacks on renewable energy, particularly wind power. A memorandum passed to The Guardian from the…
Social psychologists and demagogues have long known that if ordinary citizens are to be provoked to violent actions against individuals or groups or fellow scientists, it is necessary to sever the emphatic bond with those to be attacked by…
The other, of course, is environmental catastrophe. Practically every country in the world is taking at least halting steps towards trying to do something about it. The U.S. is also taking steps, mainly to accelerate the threat. It is the only major country that is not…
CCS technology is worth exploring as one of a large array of potential strategies for slowing the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere. But as this report demonstrates, right now there’s little progress in realizing this potential. A technology capable of permanently sequestering…
Environmental Groups Launch Major Campaign to Defend Nature and Democracy in Canada
Pembina Institute
05-07-2012
Known as Black Out Speak Out (or Silence, on parle!, in French) the campaign will invite organizations, businesses and citizens from across Canada to darken their websites on June 4, and speak out against changes introduced in the…
Except for the hours when I went out to the events nearest my home in Vermont, I’ve been by the computer, transfixed by the images streaming in…
That’s why June 5 is another day of action here in the U.S.: A day to tell our government to get Wall Street out of Rio. The Rio+20 “green economy” agenda is being driven by interests that seek to privatize nature by further deregulating industry and handing our…
Warren Buffett, the third wealthiest man on the planet (net worth: $44 billion), often referred to as the “Oracle of Omaha,” is the target of a May 5 action called for by Stop Coal B.C. Well, not Buffett directly, but a rail company he owns through his…
So here’s a prediction: next Sunday, no matter how big and beautiful the demonstrations may be that we’re mounting across the world, “Face the Nation” and “Meet the Press” won’t be connecting the dots. They’ll be gassing along about Newt Gingrich’s…
I’ve been giving lectures on Peak Oil for over a decade now, and always look forward to the question period after the main show. Here are the top 11, along with brief sample replies and some resources for further reading…
As the sunrises on Saturday, May 5, there will be a gathering held on Majuro Atoll—in the North Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands—unlike any other there before. The people there will arrive carrying large cardboard-cut-out dots…
This Saturday (May 5), at events around the world, people will Connect the Dots between extreme weather and climate change. It’s going to be an amazing day—and the theme that will tie it all together is the dots…
According to the release, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new emissions standards for methane and volatile organics from shale gas development “must be considered too little, too late” given the urgent need to reduce global…
Groups File Suit over Largest Coal Plans Ever Approved by U.S. Interior Department
WildEarth Guardians
05-02-2012
The challenged leases threaten to lead to more than 3.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, which would be like cutting down more than 400 million acres of forest—an area roughly four times the size of Texas…
In an effort to prevent destructive oil drilling in the Arctic, dozens of Greenpeace Nordic activists have boarded and occupied a Shell-contracted icebreaker in Helsinki harbour on May 1 as it prepared to leave for the Alaskan Arctic…
The largest banks in the country, including Bank of America, Citi and Wells Fargo, received failing grades today as the lead financiers of the coal industry. These banks are the ATMs for a dirty industry that is bad for health and bad for business…
So skip work, flip a bird at the Capitol, commit your deepest love and solidarity to the young whose lives are being gambled away, feed the hungry, take a long look at how beautiful our planet still is, find your way into solidarity and people power, and dream big about other futures…
From April 22-26 there were a series of activities on the climate crisis in Washington, D.C. organized primarily by religiously-based groups…
