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16/5/2013
The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too burdensome for ...
16/5/2013
Two months ago a story started ‘leaking’ out of Western Colorado about a fracked-gas pipeline break--loaded with cancer-causing benzene--with fluids heading toward and eventually into Parachute Creek which is a tributary to the Colorado River. As ...
14/5/2013
It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's
green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.Killing these iconic ...
13/5/2013
"THIS IS THE CHURCH taking direct action and showing that it's not willing to profit from destroying the Earth."
That's what Justin Whelan, Paddington Uniting Church mission development manager, had to say after the church's NSW and ACT ...
12/5/2013
In no other
industry today is it more obvious to see the culmination of affects of social, political, economic, and ecological instability than in the global production of food. As a defining characteristic of civilization itself, it is no wonder ...
10/5/2013
The National Journal has a long piece out, "The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change: Science, storms, and demographics are starting to change minds among the rank and file."
Back in October 2010, NJ ran an article explaining, “The ...
10/5/2013
In a surprise move, the eight Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday blocked a floor vote on President Obama`s nominee, Gina McCarthy, as U.S. EPA Administrator. In doing so the Republican senators broke ...
8/5/2013
The Obama administration's second attempt at writing regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands is not intended to appease either environmentalists or
oil and gas drillers, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said on ...
8/5/2013
The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. Chapters have opened up in more than 100 US cities and states as well as on more than 300 campuses, where students are holding ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
6/5/2013
A European Union plan to label crude from the Alberta
oil sands as dirty is unfair and could damage Canada's bid to find new export markets, the Canadian resources minister said at the start of a mission to lobby against the idea.
As ...
5/5/2013
On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand-up table in the exhibition hall when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next to my pile of conference literature, a mess ...
4/5/2013
President Barack Obama is being pressed by opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline to tie any approval to measures that would curb climate change, reflecting mounting pressure on the administration to mitigate the project’s impact if it goes ...
2/5/2013
The resource potential of the booming Bakken Shale
oil and gas zone is much bigger than previously thought, U.S. government geologists announced yesterday.
A new assessment of
oil and gas reserves in that region by the U.S. Geological ...
1/5/2013
[Editor's note: With voting day just over two weeks away, we look back on big issues that have driven debate in our province during the last 12 years of BC Liberal governance. What did B.C.'s leaders and opposition parties say and do on these ...
26/4/2013
The Obama campaign`s newly minted advocacy group has mined a vein of political gold, namely goofy remarks by Congress` climate change deniers - mainly Republicans from Texas and the Deep South who are strumpets for Big
Oil and Big Coal, but also ...
26/4/2013
The Las Vegas strip, home to the world's best known casinos where wastefulness is not just encouraged but is a key part of the business model, has been reinventing itself over the past few years as a model of sustainability. But is it really ...
26/4/2013
The northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Nebraska will still likely be approved, but criticism this week from the Environmental Protection Agency may mean the
green light won’t be given until fall, says a U.S. energy ...
25/4/2013
MPs will today highlight the role domestic shale gas could play in boosting tax revenue and enhancing energy security, but will also warn that its effect on energy prices remains far less certain.
A report to be published today by the ...
25/4/2013
When you go to the grocery store and you buy a bag of chips, a chocolate bar, crackers, ice-cream, doughnuts, frozen snacks or other candy, you may see a label on the products saying ‘RSPO Certified Sustainable Palm
Oil’ or ‘Green Palm ...
25/4/2013
My
greenhouse is covered with a thin plastic film. A few molecules of plastic are all it takes to make it 30 degrees Fahrenheit warmer inside than out.
When coal, gasoline and natural gas are burned, they produce carbon dioxide that ...
24/4/2013
On April 11,Colorado State Rep. Joann Ginal`s (D-Fort Collins) House Bill 1275 was heard, and died, in committee in the Colorado State Legislature. Rep Ginal`s bill asked and proposed to answer a very honest and simple question, "Are people ...
23/4/2013
Leading environmental groups declared on Monday that the Obama administration's latest environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline fundamentally violated the nation's core environmental law, an unmistakable warning that they would sue the ...
23/4/2013
B.C. New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix's criticism Monday of Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion
oil pipeline marks the latest twist in an election campaign that, for the first time in B.C.'s modern history, has the
oil-and-gas
industry ...
20/4/2013
In the U.S., when the topic of clean energy comes up, we like to debate concepts like climate change or global warming, turning it into a political debate more than a strategic one. Subsidies to industries such as wind or solar, no matter how ...