Friday, July 29, 2011

Protected Land, Ocean Areas Not Enough to Prevent Mass Biodiversity Loss | Common Dreams

Protected Land, Ocean Areas Not Enough to Prevent Mass Biodiversity Loss | Common Dreams

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Relocating Alaska Natives: The Climate is Changing Faster Than Disaster Management and Adaptation Policies

Relocating Alaska Natives: The Climate is Changing Faster Than Disaster Management and Adaptation Policies: "pBy Christine Shearer In 2008, I took a tiny cargo plane to the Inupiaq village of Kivalina, in the northwest of Alaska above the Arctic Circle. I had heard the village would be lost to climate change from erosion, which I imagined to be a slow, gradual, and predictable process. Touring the island and speaking [...]/p"

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Population And Enviroment

Climate Zombie Riders Pollute House Appropriations Bills

Climate Zombie Riders Pollute House Appropriations Bills: "pThe Tea Party-dominated House of Representatives is attaching a raft of provisions to its spending bills designed to block action to address greenhouse pollution and its deadly impacts. In addition to drastic cuts to clean energy investment and increases in subsidies for fossil energy, riders that kill off climate action are being added to the [...]/p"

Health for Sale: House EPA Bill Allows Pollution and Supporters Get Big Oil Donations

Health for Sale: House EPA Bill Allows Pollution and Supporters Get Big Oil Donations: "pRep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) added a provision in the EPA appropriations bill that would allow power plants to continue spewing mercury, arsenic, acid gases, and other hazardous pollutants. The representatives who voted for the provision received more than twice as many campaign contributions from mining and utility companies combined compared to those who opposed it.  [...]/p"

The Toxic 20: Which State Do You Live In?

The Toxic 20: Which State Do You Live In?: "pIn 2009, coal and oil-fired power plants emitted 49% of industrial air pollution in the U.S. — representing the dominant source of air toxics in 28 states around the U.S. The Natural Resources Defense Council issued a report today on the top 20 states with toxic emissions coming from the electricity sector. The top five [...]/p"

Car Makers Oppose Fuel Standards that Would Save Consumers $150 Billion

Car Makers Oppose Fuel Standards that Would Save Consumers $150 Billion: "pThe auto industry is starting a media blitz this week designed to fight new fuel economy standards that research groups say will create over a half million jobs, save consumers $150 billion and are supported by three quarters of Americans. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is running radio ads in 6 states and the District [...]/p"

She's Alive

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

More Americans have Green Jobs Than Oil or Gas Jobs; Lighting Standards the GOP Wants to Kill Created 12,500 Jobs

More Americans have Green Jobs Than Oil or Gas Jobs; Lighting Standards the GOP Wants to Kill Created 12,500 Jobs: "pClimate Progress previously reported on a Brookings Institution study, “Sizing the Clean Economy.” It demonstrated the “Clean Economy” has started delivering on its promise of high-wage jobs. The Christian Science Monitor just did a nice article on the study, “Report: More Americans have green jobs than oil or gas jobs.”  They did a nice graphic [...]/p"

Saving Valentina

Monday, July 18, 2011

BP Spills 2,100 to 4,200 Gallons of Oil in Arctic Tundra

BP Spills 2,100 to 4,200 Gallons of Oil in Arctic Tundra: "pThis Saturday, BP put another notch in its prodigious polluter belt:   A toxic brew of methanol and crude oil spilling across Alaska’s North Slope tundra. Reuters reports: BP said on Monday that a pipeline at its 30,000 barrel per day Lisburne field, which is currently closed for maintenance, ruptured during testing and spilled a mixture [...]/p"

Thursday, July 14, 2011

House GOP Passes Dirty-Water Bill

House GOP Passes Dirty-Water Bill
The GOP continues to attack the EPA.

Tom Donahue And The U.S. Chamber Of Secrets

Tom Donahue And The U.S. Chamber Of Secrets: "pClimate activists are comparing the right-wing, corporate agenda of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the villains that bedevil Harry Potter in a new website. Chamber President Tom Donohue looms as a Lord Voldemort figure on the site. This mini-campaign was launched in conjunction with the final installment of the Harry Potter movies, like climate [...]/p"

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Climate Change Reducing Ocean’s Carbon Dioxide Uptake

Climate Change Reducing Ocean’s Carbon Dioxide Uptake: "p“The ocean is taking up less carbon because of the warming caused by the carbon in the atmosphere,” says [Galen] McKinley, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and a member of the Center for Climatic Research…. McKinley is the lead author of a new analysis in the journal Nature Geoscience (subs. req’d) that [...]/p"

Climate Change Could Kill One in 10 Species by End of the Century | Common Dreams

Climate Change Could Kill One in 10 Species by End of the Century | Common Dreams

Friday, July 8, 2011

Climate Disasters Batter Districts Of Climate-Denying GOP Appropriators

Climate Disasters Batter Districts Of Climate-Denying GOP Appropriators: "pOn Thursday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the Interior and Environment approved a slash-and-burn budget for land and environmental agencies. The FY 2012 budget bill includes several riders to prevent the federal government from protecting Americans from global warming pollution. The agencies whose budgets were cut, including the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau [...]/p"

Fracking Fatally Destroys Forests In As Little As Two Days

Fracking Fatally Destroys Forests In As Little As Two Days: "pA new study conducted by the U.S. Forest Service concluded that fracking causes alarming damage to the enviornment in as little as two days. The findings, which looked at the effects of land application of fracking fluids on a quarter-acre section of the Monongahela National Forest, found that within two days, all ground plants were [...]/p"

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

UN: Only Green Technology Can Avert 'Planetary Catastrophe' | Common Dreams

UN: Only Green Technology Can Avert 'Planetary Catastrophe' | Common Dreams

How climate science deniers spread doubt for political ends

How climate science deniers spread doubt for political ends: "pThe Galileo Movement co-opts the father of science’s name to pursue an anti-science agenda. Ian Enting, Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, looks at the front groups and writings of Australia’s deniers . This is an extended excerpt from The Conversation series on climate. Many of us, including most of the authors of this series, have [...]/p"

How the Media Gets It Wrong on Climate Change: The False, the Confused and the Mendacious

How the Media Gets It Wrong on Climate Change: The False, the Confused and the Mendacious: "pThe debate may be fiery, but it’s also phony. AAP The Conversation wraps up its climate series with a statement from leading Australian acientists:  The debate is over. Let’s get on with it. Over the past two weeks The Conversation has highlighted the consensus of experts that climate change caused by humans is both real [...]/p"

Friday, July 1, 2011

Google: Delaying Clean Energy Transition “Only 5 Years Could Leave Trillions on the Table”

Google: Delaying Clean Energy Transition “Only 5 Years Could Leave Trillions on the Table”: "pGoogle, a leader of innovation in the digital economy, says that without a private and public focus on innovation in renewables, storage and electric vehicles, the cost of delaying the clean energy economy could be in the trillions of dollars to the U.S. Google released an analysis of the economic impact of clean energy innovation [...]/p"

Extreme Weather Link 'Can No Longer Be Ignored' | Common Dreams

Extreme Weather Link 'Can No Longer Be Ignored' | Common Dreams