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
published November 8, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: John Leech Two candidates for governor made opposing high speed rail projects in their states a central part of their campaign -- Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio both claimed that high speed rail was too expensive, and a waste of taxpayer money. Between the two states, $1.2 billion of federal stimulus money had already ...
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Photo: davidsilver , Flickr, Creative Commons On election day , Republican strategist Karl Rove may have let more truth slip than he's typically comfortable with. At a conference for shale gas drilling companies, he gave a speech about how the incoming Congress "sure as heck" won't pass legislation that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. "Climate is gone," he said. ...
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Photo: eli.pousson , Flickr, Creative Commons The LA Times just ran a good -- if frightening and totally unsurprising -- piece about the GOP's post-election plans in the environmental arena . Mostly, it plans to try to burn that entire arena to the ground. Republican party leaders say that they plan on attacking not only the EPA and its ...
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Castle in a pumpkin. Image credit: photo by John Laumer With Halloween 2010 only a day behind us and the mid-term elections tomorrow morning, likely-voter polls indicate Americans are up for a good ' hate it when that happens ' kick in the pants. Let's think about some of the key outcomes of the coming Congressional turnover. Just from ...
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Photo: db , Flickr, Creative Commons Yesterday, I posted on the startling revelation that the Republican Party in the United States is the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science . While I attempted to fathom how that possibly came to pass, others were more focused on the broader ...
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With the elections drawing closer, the oil company-funded Prop 23 campaign has kicked into full gear. The Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro, along with Koch Industries, a coal and oil conglomerate, have donated millions of dollars to finance TV ads and other campaigns in an attempt to overturn California's groundbreaking climate and clean energy law, which was passed ...
Read more...published September 17, 2010 and has No Comments
photo via flickr All politics is local, right? Maybe, but with a federal cap on emissions stymied for now, greens and climate deniers are increasingly looking to the states for action. Enter the League of Conservation voters, which has put out its first ever state-level "Dirty Dozen" list , targeting state level pols who have poor environmental voting records. ...
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Image via Dispatch Politics Is such a thing even possible? The existence of climate change itself has clearly become a political issue, and the trend is only looking to deepen. Look, for example, at the current crop of Senate GOP candidates: Every single one of them opposes policy to address climate change , and nearly all of them question ...
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Photo via NY Mag Earlier in the week, I looked at a hypothetical scenario laid out by columnist David Brooks in which he imagined Obama and the Democrats had gone forward with an energy bill instead of doing health care reform. Joe Romm of Climate Progress had looked at the same scenario, and commented in the end that ""Future ...
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The age where this sign applies is older than it used to be... photo: Ethan Prater via flickr. While it might not seem at first that a new study, being highlighted by BBC News , on the overestimation of how much health care costs for our aging populations are likely to increase has an immediate connection to environmentalism, in ...
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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
