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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The Environmental Defense Fund says that 20 of the nation's 25 dirties coal plants are located between 50-100 miles of some of the nation's largest cities. Head over to Climate Progress to find out if you live close enough to one to be breathing in its asthma-inducing mercury emissions! ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original ...
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Mountain top removal project from satellite view, 2009. Image credit:NASA via Mongobay . (from Satellite Photos Reveal How Mountaintop Removal Is Scarring Appalachia .) The Charleston Daily Mail reports that "U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., says President Barack Obama agrees that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should analyze the potential economic impacts of its decisions before making them ...
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Gretchen Dahlkemper-Alfonso (right) speaks to a crowd in Philadelphia about the importance of EPA's mercury safeguards. Photo credit: Sierra Club Gretchen Dahlkemper-Alfonso is a mother of a toddler and is eight-months pregnant with her second child. When it comes to protecting her children and taking precautions on their behalf, she doesn't skip anything. "I do not ignore the facts. ...
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Photo: vxla . Flickr This should serve as an indication of how old and toxic some of our nation's coal-fired power plants are: Just a day after the EPA announced its new proposal for limiting the amount of toxic emissions power plants can spew out, Georgia Power released a statement saying it will be taking two of its plants ...
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Image: Zonk43 , Wikimedia Commons Spending the week with Greenpeace on its Coal Free Future tour was illuminating for a number of reasons . Not only did I get a sneak peak at what I believe will be a crucial part of the next chapter of climate activism, but it was eye-opening to see all the work being done ...
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Earlier this week, Dr. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment, released the first-ever full life cycle analysis of the devastating costs of coal in the United States. His team's finding? That coal -- with its deadly health costs, its toll on land use, and climate impacts -- costs the nation up to ...
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Photo credit: Mona Miri It is a step towards victory for Massachusetts—a top official at Dominion Energy publicly announced the Salem power plant is expected to shut down in the next 5 years. In 2005, I began my environmental series documenting the coal and oil power plant that was responsible for environmental health problems and deaths in the region. ...
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Aboard the Arctic Sunrise, leaving New York City. Photos: Brian Merchant Over the last few weeks, Greenpeace's iconic ship the Arctic Sunrise has been traveling up the East Coast on the Coal Free Future tour . Greenpeace has been making a fresh push to spread the word about the ills of coal, and reaching out to communities in cities ...
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A group of activists, including acclaimed author, poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry, have occupied Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's office over this Valentine's Day weekend, demanding that the governor meet with them to discuss the devastating effects mountaintop removal coal mining is having on eastern Kentucky. About 20 activists in total are in the office, and have invited the governor ...
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Photo: EPL Don't pay attention to those oil company ads that claim they're devoting time and resources towards working on clean energy solutions -- just look at the graph below. The chart, which Climate Crocks reminds us of today , shows just how little the energy sector spends on research and development compared to other innovation-based industries. 0.3%. That's ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
