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: © 2010 Jane Fulton Alt ~ Marissa, Crude Awakening The stares of individuals, families, friends -- wavering between defiant and hopeless -- in Jane Fulton's " Crude Awakening " project invoke a visceral impact. The devastating repercussions of the BP oil spill have inspired many artists, and some The rest is here: Photographer Shows Swimmers in Oil
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Drilling the relief well. Photo via WSJ If all goes according to plan, the gusher behind the Gulf spil l will be plugged a month earlier than planned, BP says. This, of course, is months and months after they originally said they'd have the thing plugged, but mark this down as (extremely) tentative good news. That the company is ...
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Photo via Wind Guys One of the persisting myths about comprehensive, carbon-pricing legislation is that it would cost the nation an arm and a leg to enact. This simply is not the case, as a recent bipartisan, independent analysis of the dying Kerry-Lieberman clean energy and climate bill reveals: The Congressional Budget Office found that passing the climate bill ...
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This USA Today chart shows how Americans are paying less taxes on gas now than at any point since 1993. That's the last time the gas tax was raised, to 18.4 cents per gallon -- and that's where it's stayed ever since. By inflation-adjusted dollars, that makes the current gas taxes the lowest Americans have been paying since 1975 ...
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For the radar: The Saudi Gazette reports King Abdullah has announced that the nation has stopped oil exploration on new fields to protect the petroleum supply for future generations.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Here is the original post: Saudis Stop New Oil Exploration to Prolong Petroleum Supply for Future Generations: King Abdullah
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Photo via MSNBC Lake Pontchartrain lies just north of New Orleans. The famous lake and Louisiana icon suffered from pollution until restoration efforts brought it back to health in the 1990s. It once again became an important fishery and popular recreational destination. Then it got hit by Hurricane Katrina. Now, of course, it stands to be threatened all over ...
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Image via the AP The BP Gulf spill has no doubt brought plenty of scrutiny and debate to the practice of offshore drilling. But it still manages to be shocking when a figure like this emerges: according to an AP report, there are a staggering 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells throughout the Gulf of Mexico -- and nobody ...
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A tanker passing underneath one of the Bosphorus bridges. Photo by Jennifer Hattam The sight of dozens of mammoth tankers anchored off the coast of Istanbul, or of lone ones passing underneath the two high Bosphorus bridges as they steam their way to or from the Black Sea, is undeniably impressive. But in the wake of the Gulf of ...
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There will certainly be no more of this -- A journalist diving into the Gulf spill. Photo via AL There's been much discussion over how BP has been obstructing media coverage of the Gulf spill, and rightly so. Thus far, impediments to coverage have involved the Coast Guard cooperating with BP to turn reporters away, and simply barring journalists' ...
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Image via Metro Truth is certainly sometimes stranger than fiction. For instance, does this seem real? In the year 1970, a board game was created for an oil company known at the time as British Petroleum. In that game, called "BP Offshore Oil Strike", players build oil rigs and drill off coastlines and in open water. Then, when the ...
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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
