A Power Outage in the White House?
Say it isn't so, President Obama! It was just one year ago that Obama boldly declared that he would respond to the threat of climate change in his inaugural address. While he reaffirmed his call for...
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Fine Weather for Creepy Melancholia
I have enjoyed many terrific birthdays in San Francisco. I have, if memory serves and it sometimes does, nearly always celebrated my January birthday indoors, perhaps luxuriating in a fine hotel, or...
View ArticleToxic Greed: The Environment's Biggest Threat
West Virginia just taught us a ghastly lesson in chemistry -- the formula for a toxic compound far more deadly than the coal-processing poison 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol (MCHM). Here's what you do --...
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State Dept's Keystone XL Contractor, ERM Group, Also OK'd Controversial...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog A DeSmogBlog investigation has revealed Environmental Resources Management Inc. (ERM Group) — the contractor performing the U.S. State Department's environmental review for...
View ArticleThe Future Five: Animal Shelters Get Support for Lifesaving Program
Most people have probably already strayed from their resolutions to make lasting changes in their lives in 2014. But the Kanawha/Charleston Humane Association in West Virginia knows the secret to...
View ArticleThe News Just Keeps Getting Worse for West Virginia (and It Doesn't Stop There)
Earlier this week my West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin said the following about whether people should be drinking the water in Charleston and downstream: "It's your decision. ... I'm not a...
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UN General Assembly President John Ashe on Climate Change: The Need to Act...
GA-President John Ashe. Picture: UN General Assembly The sitting president of the 68th United Nations General Assembly John Ashe, a trained bioengineer from the Caribbean islands Antigua and Barbuda,...
View ArticleJunk Food Lobby Brings Its Bag of Dirty Tricks to New Hampshire to Fight GMO...
The Grocery Manufacturers Association may soon be coming to your state capital. Take note of their rap sheet before you let them in the door. In secret documents that I uncovered in November, the...
View ArticleYes We Care! Latinos Want Action On Climate Change
Yes we care -- that's the message Latinos in the United States delivered loud and clear in a new poll by Latino Decisions for the Natural Resources Defense Council. A majority of us Latinos in the U.S....
View ArticleDavos: An Unmissable Opportunity for Progress
There are some who have asked whether the World Economic Forum (WEF) serves a useful purpose. In my experience the answer to that is yes. First of all, it is a great place to meet people who are...
View ArticleBuilding From a Merger That Didn't Happen
The following post is jointly authored by Mark Tercek, President & CEO of The Nature Conservancy and Brett Jenks, President & CEO of Rare. Last fall, we were pleased to announce that The Nature...
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'Green News Report' - January 21, 2014
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport FACEBOOK: Green News Report The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's official: 2013 was 4th warmest...
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'Green News Report' - January 23, 2014
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport FACEBOOK: Green News Report The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Surprise! Second toxic chemical also...
View ArticleClimate Change: The Wrong Top Priority for Environmentalists and Conservation...
You read that headline right, so let's start with a disclaimer: Climate change is one of the biggest threats of the 21st century. Only idiots, ignorami, and certain categories of the insane dismiss the...
View ArticleWATCH: A Comedian's Hilarious Tale of Having 'The Talk' With Her Daughter
Having "The Talk" with her 8-year-old daughter was awkward enough. Then they decided to look up cats mating on the Internet, and soon actress and author Julia Sweeney was an inch away from showing her...
View ArticleThe Dangers of King's Farm Bill Amendment
Most Americans may not be aware of the Farm Bill, but it has significant ramifications for many of us, affecting everything from the prices we pay for groceries to the information we see on food...
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Eulogy for a Herding Dog
Mike was a herding dog with no herd. Though he tried to treat my wife and me like sheep -- guiding us to the door when he had to pee or to his dog bowl when he was hungry -- the arrival of our boys...
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A Big Break for Polar Bears, the Arctic
Polar bears and other wildlife in the Arctic just got a crucial break. On Wednesday, an appeals court said the federal Interior department wrongly sold leases to drill for oil and gas in the Chukchi...
View ArticleSaving Emperor Penguins Requires Swift Climate Action
They are Antarctica's answer to Hollywood -- appealing little movie stars at the center of one of the most critically acclaimed, financially successful nature films ever made. Audiences around the...
View ArticleHow the Right Uses Environmental Law to Kill American Jobs
"Conservative groups use environmental litigation to kill American jobs. " No, that was not the title of the recent New York Times article about the Cape Wind offshore wind project. But it should have...
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