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#DirtyDenier$ Day 4: Congressman Cory Gardner
Why is Congressman Cory Gardner smiling? Maybe it's because in just four years in Congress, he has raised $695,000 from dirty polluters from the oil and gas industry, who happen to be the largest...
View ArticleFire and Ice: What I Did on My Summer Vacation
I did my best to get away from work last week while my family and I were on vacation visiting friends who live in Kalispell, the gateway to Montana's Glacier National Park. But it wasn't quite...
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Looking Behind the Common Sense Elements of City Life
Introduction Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural habitat. This small drama was a play of few...
View ArticleWho Are the Top Five Fossil Fools in Illinois Politics?
Illinois may be more famous for imprisoned governors, but as a coal state struggling with its energy future, some of our politicians have wacky things to say about fossil fuels. With the threatened...
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Will Humans Go Extinct If All Animals Die?
This question originally appeared on Quora:Will humans go extinct if all other animals die? Answer by Suzanne Sadedin, Evolutionary Biologist Probably, yes. Without worms, beetles and other animal...
View ArticleGE: Don't Leave Before the Job Is Done
One of America's largest, most expensive and most important river cleanups is at a crucial turning point, with the environmental and economic health of Hudson River communities -- from upstate factory...
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Costly Coal: IMF Shows Why Coal Is Not Cheap
Three years ago, I started urging World Bank officials to fund clean energy as an alternative to their plans to finance a new coal-based power plant in Kosovo. I was told that my "country could live...
View ArticleThe Un-Retirement of an Amateur Activist
I'm a vegetarian. And a lot of vegetarians have called me a "strict vegetarian." Yeah, I guess I am strict, if not eating gelatin because it is made of boiled skin and tendons, and not eating cheeses...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Producing Anthrax
The extreme weather the Midwest and Plain states have experienced so far this year has brought about another severe consequence: anthrax. The potentially deadly infectious disease has been found in a...
View ArticleNow Showing: Pebble Mine's Disastrous Future at BC's Mount Polley Mine
In the early morning of August 4, 2014, a major breach occurred in an earthen dam built to contain millions of tons of mining waste -- called "tailings" -- at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine in...
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How Do You Untangle an Angry Rattlesnake?
How do you untangle an angry rattlesnake? Very carefully, of course! Rattlesnakes have a bad reputation, and certainly they can be very dangerous (as illustrated by the precautions taken by WildCare...
View ArticleSmall Modular Reactors
Now that the "nuclear renaissance" is dead following the Fukushima catastrophe, when one sixth of the world's nuclear reactors closed, the nuclear corporations -- Toshiba, Nu-Scale, Babcock and Wilcox,...
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#DirtyDenier$ Day 5: Congressman John M. Shimkus
Why is Congressman John Shimkus smiling? Maybe it's because over the course of his career he has raised more than $500,000 from the oil and gas industry. These dirty polluters account for one of the...
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Take It from the Pacific: To Win on Climate, You've Got to Fight
An area in Kiribati vulnerable to Climate Change Here in the Pacific, we're on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Many of our islands are just a couple of feet above sea level. From Fiji to Samoa,...
View ArticleWeeks, months, and years later, still no coal ash safety standards
This week marks the six month anniversary of the Dan River coal ash spill in North Carolina. In February 2014, a broken pipe released up to 82,000 gallons of toxic coal ash and wastewater into the Dan...
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The View From Africa
"There is nothing quite like the African bush to soothe and rejuvenate." That experience was conveyed to me by a South African church leader who has been helping plan the speaking tour I just arrived...
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Green Billionaires Club? David Vitter Owns Stock in Coal Utilities Fighting...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog On July 30, the Republican minority of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, headed by Sen. David Vitter, released a report titled "The Chain of...
View ArticleCommunities Near Oil Refineries Must Demand Cleaner Air
In Port Arthur Texas, home to eight oil and chemical industrial sites, the egg-like, putrid smell of toxic chemicals spews from oil refinery smokestacks every hour of every day. That stench stands as a...
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On the Contrary World Bank President Dr. Kim, Renewable Energy Is the Future
Photo credit: SELCO India In the 21st century, it's hard to take anyone seriously who thinks coal, not clean energy, is the future for dynamic, emerging economies. But that's exactly what Dr. Jim Yong...
View ArticleWho Needs Clean Water?
With a couple of decisions in 2001 and 2006, the Supreme Court managed to break the Clean Water Act by calling into question what Congress meant by "the waters of the United States." The existing law...
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