Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Image Credit: Climbers Against Coal via Facebook On Friday at 7:30am, a team of seven Washington women and men reached the summit of Mount Rainier, which, at 14,411 feet, is the highest mountain ( and active volcano ) in the state. Of the seven, only two had done anything like this. So why take on the the biggest challenge ...
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photo via flickr There's news out of Canada, home of this week's G20, about fossil fuel subsidies. Reports say that at the behest of the USA, the group of the 20 largest economies in the world have agreed to r emove language that says that cuts in subsidies should be "voluntary. " The result could be greater price party ...
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Rainforest Action Network has been campaigning against JPMorgan Chase for some time, trying to get the giant bank to stop bankrolling mountaintop removal. The San Francisco based group of rabble rousers might be now seeing some progress. At its annual general shareholder meeting, JPMorgan Chase released its 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report , which includes its first public statement on ...
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About 84 percent of Missouri's energy comes from coal, the "most dangerous substance" known to man, according to Bill McKibben. The state's heavy reliance on coal makes it an interesting venue for next week's live streamed debate between Fred Palmer, VP of Governmental Relations at Peabody Energy and Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, moderated ...
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photo via flickr No less than Dr. James Hansen of NASA has said that to slow and reverse climate change, we must phase out the use of coal. Thanks to the efforts of the Sierra Club and others, there were no new coal plants built in 2009. But today the Environmental Defense Fund dropped its opposition to a new ...
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By this point you've probably heard that a new Senate climate bill will be revealed at the start of ne... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: Senate Climate Bill Will Price Carbon But No Cap-and-Trade, Has 'Huge Assistance' for Coal Industry: John Kerry (Video)
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Hobet Mine of West Virginia in 1984 (Photos: NASA) From high-profile protests to rowdy political debates , coal-mining by the way of mountaintop removal is a hotly-contended issue. It has a terrible environmental and human cost (see how the Read the original here: Satellite Photos Reveal How Mountaintop Removal Is Scarring Appalachia
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photo via flickr Josh Napper, a West Virginia coal miner who was killed in the Massey mine explosion on Monday, left a note for his loved ones before going to the mine. Napper wrote, "If anything happens to me, I'll be looking down from heaven at you all. I love you. Take care of my baby. Tell her that ...
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"Black Lung Disease from Coal Mining on the Rise" Image & Caption credit: Civilianism.com Brian documented the recent coal mine explosion in WV , a tragic story which has been all over the news. The tendency I've seen in both print and broadcast media is to finger point at the mine owner and operator and hint that government needs ...
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Image credit:Environmental Integrity Project report data, via McClatcy, Pat Carr Using publicly available data maintained by USEPA, an Environmental Integrity Project report lists Texas as having five of the 10 largest power plant mercury air pollution sources in the nation. The sum result: nearly 12 tons per year of mercury emitted into the Texas skies during 2008. It's not ...
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Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
