North Carolina Bill Would Require Coastal Communities To Ignore Global Warming Science

North Carolina Bill Would Require Coastal Communities To Ignore Global Warming Science: Some North Carolina GOP legislators want to stop the use of science to plan for the future. They are circulating a bill that would force coastal counties to ignore actual observations and the best science-based projections in planning for future sea level rise. King Canute thought he had the power to hold back the tide (in the [...]/p

Report: 'Leading' Companies Mislead Public on Climate Change Policies | Common Dreams

Report: 'Leading' Companies Mislead Public on Climate Change Policies | Common Dreams

Top 28 publicly traded companies 'get away with misrepresenting science to achieve their goals'

Charlie the tuna glows in the dark?

Get out your tin foil hat for the new GOP platform

Report: 'Leading' Companies Mislead Public on Climate Change Policies | Common Dreams

Report: 'Leading' Companies Mislead Public on Climate Change Policies | Common Dreams

Top 28 publicly traded companies 'get away with misrepresenting science to achieve their goals'

Global CO2 Emissions Hit New Record in 2011, Keeping World on Track for 'Devastating' 11°F Warming | Environment | AlterNet

Global CO2 Emissions Hit New Record in 2011, Keeping World on Track for 'Devastating' 11°F Warming | Environment | AlterNet
"The scientific literature now makes clear that even 7°F warming would destroy the livable climate 7 billion people have come to depend upon."

Romney Campaigns Against Green Jobs While Solar Industry Is ‘Flourishing’ In His Home State

Romney Campaigns Against Green Jobs While Solar Industry Is ‘Flourishing’ In His Home State: The Romney campaign released yet another ad today on Solyndra and the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program. Romney’s ad repeats the same half-truths and lies about stimulus funding that factcheckers have repeatedly debunked. During the campaign, Romney has routinely dismissed the nation’s 3.1 million clean energy jobs while intensifying his attacks on the industry. [...]/p

A Last (Chemical) Gasp for Bees? | Common Dreams

A Last (Chemical) Gasp for Bees? | Common Dreams
Colony collapse disorder threatens food crops valued at $15 billion a year. New research says farm chemicals put our food system at risk.

Goodbye Fish and Shellfish? Meet the Biggest Threat to Our Oceans | Water | AlterNet

Goodbye Fish and Shellfish? Meet the Biggest Threat to Our Oceans | Water | AlterNet
"As emissions continue to rise, the world's oceans are becoming corrosive, threatening shellfish, corals and the entire ocean food web."

Myths & Facts About Wind Power

Myths & Facts About Wind Power
"contrary to the myths propagated by the conservative media, wind power is safe, increasingly affordable, and has the potential to significantly reduce pollution and U.S. reliance on fossil fuels."

Global CO2 Emissions at Record High | Common Dreams

Global CO2 Emissions at Record High | Common Dreams
"Climate Scientist James Hansen hascalled even a target of 2 degrees of warming "a prescription for long-term disaster"."

Appalachian Women Lead Dramatic Protest Against Mountaintop Removal: Interview With Marilyn Mullens | AlterNet

Appalachian Women Lead Dramatic Protest Against Mountaintop Removal: Interview With Marilyn Mullens | AlterNet
"After serving her country as a major in the U.S. Army for 22 years, tending to injured soldiers as a case manager in other parts of the country, registered nurse Marilyn Mullens is now leading a group of her fellow Appalachian women to the West Virginia state capitol on Memorial Day to protest the growing humanitarian crisis of mountaintop removal mining."

LA Becomes Nation's Largest City to Ban Plastic Bags; Also Requiring Fee for Paper Bags | AlterNet

LA Becomes Nation's Largest City to Ban Plastic Bags; Also Requiring Fee for Paper Bags | AlterNet
"Environmentalists and clean-water advocates are lauding Los Angeles' move to ban plastic shopping bags at supermarkets. The city will also eventually require a 10 cent fee for paper bags."

Fukushima in the USA

UN Chief: Ocean's Biodiversity Must Be Protected | Common Dreams

UN Chief: Ocean's Biodiversity Must Be Protected | Common Dreams
"Speaking on the International World Biodiversity Day, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday warned that over-consumption and rampant pollution was threatening the world's ocean and marine biodiverity. "Despite its importance, marine biodiversity has not fared well at human hands," he said in a prepared statement."

Leaked Memo Exposes Toxic US 'Burn Pit' in Afghanistan | Common Dreams

Leaked Memo Exposes Toxic US 'Burn Pit' in Afghanistan | Common Dreams
"A recently leaked 2011 Army memo obtained by Danger Room reveals startling negligence by US officials regarding 'burn pits', or toxic waste sites at US bases in Afghanistan."

Evidence Continues to Mount for Ticking 'Methane Time Bomb' | Common Dreams

Evidence Continues to Mount for Ticking 'Methane Time Bomb' | Common Dreams
"New research that utilized both ground-based measurements and aerial surveys in specific sub-arctic regions in Alaska and Greenland has discovered approximately 150,000 'methane seeps' - a phenomenon where methane gas previously held in the frozen permafrost beneath tundras or under arctic sea ice, is steadily released when warming causes melting."

Kivalina: A Climate Change Story

Kivalina: A Climate Change Story
"In December 2003, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) went on to report that most of Alaska's more than two hundred native villages were affected to some degree by flooding and erosion, with thirty-one facing imminent threats "due in part to rising temperatures that cause protective shore ice to form later in the year, leaving the villages vulnerable to storms"."

Is nuclear catastrophe imminent at San Onofre, CA?

Report: 'Over-Consumption' Threatening Earth | Common Dreams

Report: 'Over-Consumption' Threatening Earth | Common Dreams
"Humans are using 50 percent more resources than the Earth can provide, and unless fundamental changes are made in the way we produce energy, food, and if we cannot curb our consumption of other natural resources that number will continue to skyrocket, according to a new report. Released today by the the World Wildlife Fund, The Living Planet Report, warns that if humans cannot shift their behavior by 2030, even two planets will not be enough to support modern society."

Petition Calls on Brazilian President to Veto 'Catastrophic' Forest Code | Common Dreams

Petition Calls on Brazilian President to Veto 'Catastrophic' Forest Code | Common Dreams
"Brazil's Congress voted on April 25 to ease rules mandating the amount of forest farmers must keep on their land, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby despite opposition from environmentalists. The  forestry bill that gives loggers and farmers free rein to cut down huge swaths of the Amazon. The bill must still be approved by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff."

Fox News Misrepresents EPA Climate Rule

Fox News Misrepresents EPA Climate Rule
"Fox News reporter Doug McKelway falsely reported that EPA's proposed greenhouse gas rule requires coal plants to install carbon capture and storage technology and could shut down up to 25 percent of coal-fired power. In fact, the rule applies only to future coal plants, which few companies planned to build anyway due to competition from natural gas."

People Everywhere Connect the Dots on Climate Change

Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement Should Motivate Us | The Progressive

Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement Should Motivate Us | The Progressive
"A landmark was reached just a few days ago: One of the world’s biggest economies completely weaned itself off of nuclear power."

Today, ALEC Brings Lawmakers And Big Oil Together To Undermine Clean Energy

Today, ALEC Brings Lawmakers And Big Oil Together To Undermine Clean Energy: Today, behind closed doors in Charlotte, North Carolina, legislators from 15 states will meet with the oil and gas industry to discuss so-called “model legislation” as part of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The result could be laws that handicap renewable energy targets — while creating loopholes for fossil fuels, written directly by the [...]/p

Right-Wing Climate Denier Strategizes To Smear Wind Energy

Right-Wing Climate Denier Strategizes To Smear Wind Energy
"he value of this memo is that it confirms everything we've always known but haven't been able to prove about how these groups mount their astroturf campaigns. It's how they win. This particular PR campaign included a cost estimate of $750,000 for the national effort alone. Sure, take nearly a million dollars and throw it at propaganda, lobbying and astroturf groups and something is bound to stick, just by virtue of repetition."

Game Over for the Climate | Common Dreams

Game Over for the Climate | Common Dreams
"Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do"."

Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets

Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets
"Controversial hydraulic fracturing oil and gas drilling methods known as "fracking" involve pumping water and chemicals deep underground to break up rock and release oil and gas. Advanced techniques have facilitated an oil and natural gas boom across Pennsylvania and beyond in recent years and brought the drilling close to homes and farms."

Study: Biodiversity Loss Impacts as Great as Climate Change Impacts | Common Dreams

Study: Biodiversity Loss Impacts as Great as Climate Change Impacts | Common Dreams
"Loss of biodiversity has as profound an effect as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress on ecosystems, according to a study released this week."

Scientists: Deep Ocean Beneath Antarctic Responding Rapidly to Climate Change | Common Dreams

Scientists: Deep Ocean Beneath Antarctic Responding Rapidly to Climate Change | Common Dreams
"New research by Australian scientists suggests that up to 60 percent of "Antarctic Bottom Water", the dense water formed around the edges of Antarctica that seeps into the deep sea and spreads out through the world's oceans, has disappeared since 1970, reportsAgence France-Presse."

Ignoring The 64,000 Green Jobs In His State, Romney’s Campaign Claims Clean Energy Isn’t Creating Jobs

Ignoring The 64,000 Green Jobs In His State, Romney’s Campaign Claims Clean Energy Isn’t Creating Jobs: Who would have thought that clean energy would become the source of such scorn for Mitt Romney, a candidate who called transitioning away from fossil fuels “a must” in 2007? The Romney campaign released a new campaign ad this morning attacking clean energy jobs. Just like every other ad on the issue this election cycle, [...]/p

ALEC’s Top Five Anti-Environment ‘Model’ Laws

ALEC’s Top Five Anti-Environment ‘Model’ Laws: by Stephen Lacey and Jessica Goad The American Legislative Exchange Council, a “stealth business lobbyist” that helps corporations write state and federal legislation supporting their interests, has taken major heat for its backing of controversial laws. More than a dozen companies — including Coca Cola and Procter & Gamble — have pulled out of the [...]/p

New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years | Common Dreams

New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years | Common Dreams
"A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the ground could migrate toward drinking water supplies far more quickly than experts have previously predicted."