Yuletide Gifts From D.C.: Reflections on a Frustrating Week of Federal...
It's been a long frustrating week of political shenanigans in Washington D.C...While we were all distractedwiththe energy bill last week, and while Democratic leaders congratulated themselves on their...
View ArticleBush Administration Proposes $10 Billion Christmas Present From Joe Taxpayer...
Merry Christmas, Big Oil! Love, President BushThat's what it must have said on the holiday card delivered today by the White House to ExxonMobil executives along with a nice, fat, $10.3 billion...
View ArticleBush Admin Delays Polar Bear Decision; Meanwhile Arctic Oil & Gas Lease Sales...
[This is a guest post by fellow WattHead blogger, Alisha Fowler:]The polar bear was once the world’s most formidable predator. It now lies on the brink of extinction due to global warming and habitat...
View ArticleCan MLK's Dream Be Reborn in the Economic Stimulus Package?
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated forty years ago in Memphis, he was calling for a campaign that would unite the poor and working classes of all races behind a shared economic future....
View ArticleTake Action to Support a Sustainable, Just Economic Stimulus
[Guest post by Billy Parish]Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis 40 years ago, where he was assassinated, to help support the long struggle of the city's sanitation workers for decent jobs and...
View ArticleMidwest Oil Refineries Gobble Up Canadian Tar Sands, Spew Greenhouse Gasses
Midwest oil refineries are gobbling up more and more crude oil from Canadian tar sands and are set to belch out up to 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade. According to the...
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A Spooked Coal Industry Fights Back, Trying to Buy 2008 Elections
The coal industry, running scared from the increasingly powerful No Coal movement, is fighting back by trying to buy the 2008 elections. According to AP, the coal industry is spending tens of millions...
View ArticleOil Hits Record Price. Gas Nearing $4.00. President Bush, Clueless...
Happy Friday! Oil hit record-prices today: $103.05 per barrel. Bully for us...That tops the inflation adjusted high of $102.53 set in 1980.This news comes as analysts predict $4.00 per gallon...
View ArticleBeating Back the Coal Rush: Feds Suspend Subsidized Loan Program for Rural...
In another big victory in the fight against the coal rush, the feds apparently suspended a major loan program that provided rural electric cooperatives with subsidized loans to construct new coal-fired...
View ArticleObama and Clinton Both Talking Up "Clean" Coal in Primary States
Both Barak Obama and Hillary Clintonhave solid energy plans that, if implemented, would take America into a cleaner energy future. As David Roberts of Grist says, "Both would substantially cut...
View ArticleBeyond Al Gore and Inconvenient Truths: A New Generation, A New Vision, a New...
Al Gore, the erstwhile trumpeter of inconvenient truths and dire warnings of climate catastrophe has fallen under attack by the climate deniers and flat earth-ers of the Competitive Enterprise...
View ArticleThese Guys Are No Fossil Fools! Markey and Waxman Call for Ban on New Coal...
Ed Markey and Henry Waxman are no Fossil Fools! The two Chairmen and Congressional Climate Champs releaseda new bill yesterday calling for a moratorium on any new coal plants that do not capture and...
View ArticleBeyond 80% by '50 to a Climate Positive Vision - a New Philosophy and Goal...
By Morgan Goodwin, Jesse Jenkins and Juliana WilliamsTwo recentstudies"suggest that both industrialized and developing nations must wean themselves off fossil fuels by as early as mid-century in order...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Loves Her Some Coal
In an interview on West Virginia Public Radio this morning, Hillary Clinton revealed some pretty profound ignorance about the true costs of coal and especially about the destruction mountain top coal...
View ArticleThis Earth Day, Act Blue for an Energy Smart Congress
On Earth Day, we celebrate our unique blue planet and look for ways to advance a sustainable future. So this Earth Day, let's Act Blue and do something that can have a lasting and significant impact:...
View ArticleWSJ Says: Don't Bet on LNG to Reduce US Natural Gas Prices
Econ 101 taught us increased supply = lower prices. That's the main argument for new liquefied natural gas import terminals. Unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal warns things are a bit more...
View ArticleBuckeye State Goes Green: Ohio Passes Renewable Energy Standard
The Ohio state Senate unanimously passed legislation setting strong new renewable energy and energy efficiency standards last week, sending the bill on to Governor Ted Strickland for signature. Sub....
View ArticleHillary Clinton Supports Seriously Energy Dumb Gas Tax "Holiday"
Hillary Clinton and John McCain support seriously Energy Dumb gas tax holidayThere's Energy Smart, like Mark Udall and this slate of Energy Smart US Congressional candidates.Then there's seriously...
View ArticleBarack Obama Shows Off His Energy Smarts on Gas Tax Holiday
As the ad campaigns intensified before tonight's primaries, Hillary Clinton made the seriously Energy Dumb decision to promote a gas tax holiday as a way of demonstrating her supposed affinity for "the...
View ArticleJohn McCain Stumps on Climate from Stumptown, Oregon
Post Summary:Presidential contender John McCain delivered a major speech today outlining his climate change policy from Portland, Oregon. Stumping from Stumptown, Senator McCain detailed his plans to...
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