Extreme Heat Is Killing Off Thousands Of Fish In Alaska

Extreme Heat Is Killing Off Thousands Of Fish In Alaska: Water temperatures reached 80 degrees in some parts of Alaska, prompting mass die-offs of salmon and trout.

93% of the Public Wants GMO Labeling—Monsanto and the Big Agribusiness Giants Plan to Spend Millions in Propaganda to Change Our Minds | Alternet

93% of the Public Wants GMO Labeling—Monsanto and the Big Agribusiness Giants Plan to Spend Millions in Propaganda to Change Our Minds | Alternet
"Monsanto and Big Food are taking the battle for consumers’ hearts and minds to the next level. And it’s no coincidence that they’re pulling out the big guns just as the Washington State I-522 campaign to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products is gaining steam."

Offshore...Fracking: Far More Common Than Previously Known | Common Dreams

Offshore...Fracking: Far More Common Than Previously Known | Common Dreams
"California coastal regulators said they were unaware until recently that offshore fracking was even occurring," AP reports"

Large #Summerheat Action Takes on Chevron Refinery | Common Dreams

Large #Summerheat Action Takes on Chevron Refinery | Common Dreams
"Protesters gathered in large numbers in Richmond, California on Saturday to march on Chevron's oil refinery in the San Francisco suburb, which has been the scene of untold environmental and public health degradation throughout the years."

Massive Toxic Black Cloud, Brought To You by the Koch Bros, Blows Over Detroit | Common Dreams

Massive Toxic Black Cloud, Brought To You by the Koch Bros, Blows Over Detroit | Common Dreams
"MInd-boggling video of a billowing, high-carbon, high-sulfur cloud from the mountain of petroleum coke - waste from Canadian tar sands shipped from Alberta to Detroit, and the dirtiest potential energy source ever - illegally stored by the Koch Brothers along the Detroit River."

‘Frack Gag’ Bans Children From Talking About Fracking, Forever

‘Frack Gag’ Bans Children From Talking About Fracking, Forever: The Hallowich family’s gag order is only the most extreme example of a tactic that critics say effectively silences anyone hurt by fracking. It’s a choice between receiving compensation for damage done to one’s health and property, or publicizing the abuses that caused the harm.

The Future Of Electric Cars

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Study: Today's Climate Change is 10X Faster Than Any Climate Shift Ever Recorded | Common Dreams

Study: Today's Climate Change is 10X Faster Than Any Climate Shift Ever Recorded | Common Dreams
"The world's climate is changing 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field have found in a new study published in Science."

Tens of Thousands of Pipeline Miles at Risk of Pegasus-Style Rupture That Spewed Tar Sands Into Arkansas Town | Common Dreams

Tens of Thousands of Pipeline Miles at Risk of Pegasus-Style Rupture That Spewed Tar Sands Into Arkansas Town | Common Dreams
"Review of Pegasus pipeline found known 'manufacturing defects' likely cause of Mayflower oil spill"

Big Oil Rakes in Huge Profits, Again

www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2013/08/02/71386/big-oil-rakes-in-huge-profits-again/
"In addition to special tax breaks, Big Oil companies also benefit from other government support. Three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout—the worst oil disaster in U.S. history—Congress has still not raised the absurdly low $75 million cap on companies’ liability for economic and natural-resources damages, even after catastrophic offshore blowouts."

Myths And Facts About Energy Efficiency

www.mediamatters.org/research/2013/08/01/myths-and-facts-about-energy-efficiency/195171
"Contrary to persistent myths in the media, increasing energy efficiency of appliances and buildings is a cost-effective way to benefit the environment and economy, and has historically enjoyed bipartisan support."

Chris Hayes And Michael Mann: Ken Cuccinelli’s War On Science Matters To VA Governor’s Race

Chris Hayes And Michael Mann: Ken Cuccinelli’s War On Science Matters To VA Governor’s Race: Virginians have a very stark choice before them,” science vs. anti-science

Making ‘A Republican Case for Climate Action’, Former EPA Chiefs Say The Scientific Debate Is Over

Making ‘A Republican Case for Climate Action’, Former EPA Chiefs Say The Scientific Debate Is Over: Four former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency during GOP presidencies have penned an important op-ed for the New York Times, “A Republican Case for Climate Action.”

Climate Change And Violence Linked, Breakthrough Study Finds

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/climate-change-and-violence_n_3692023.html
"Shifts in climate change are strongly linked to human violence around the world, according to a comprehensive new study released Thursday by the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University."

Not 'If' But 'When' | Common Dreams

Not 'If' But 'When' | Common Dreams
"A new time-lapse video from the Center for Biological Diversity brings frightening visualization to the 8,000 U.S. pipeline "incidents," i.e. spills and explosions, since 1986 that have brought death and destruction to the US.  With President Obama's decision on the Keystone XL—which officials say could spill up to 100 times during its lifetime—looming, the environmental group says his choice is clear."

House Republicans Aim to DECIMATE EPA Budget

Why I'm Going to March on Chevron this Saturday | Alternet

Why I'm Going to March on Chevron this Saturday | Alternet
"People from across California and beyond will march on the Chevron Oil Refinery on the one year anniversary of the 2012 explosion and fire."

Our Biggest Enviro Threat? 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda | Alternet

Our Biggest Enviro Threat? 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda | Alternet
"At least 77 bills to oppose renewable energy standards, support fracking and the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, and otherwise undermine environmental laws were introduced in 34 states in 2013, according to a new analysis from the Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of ALECexposed.org."

Overkill: Armed Agents Raid Wisconsin Animal Shelter; Kill Baby Deer Named Giggles | Alternet

Overkill: Armed Agents Raid Wisconsin Animal Shelter; Kill Baby Deer Named Giggles | Alternet
"When an Illinois family brought a baby fawn to a no-kill shelter at the Society of St. Francis on the Kenosha-Illinois border, they figured the fawn's mother had abandoned her, and hoped to save her life.

That hope turned into a nightmare two weeks ago"

Investigation: What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing

Investigation: What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing
"In what critics are calling Enron 2.0, JPMorgan Chase is facing a reported fine in the range of $500 million from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for manipulating energy markets in California and Michigan."

You Can Thank The Koch Brothers For The Big, Dirty Cloud Floating Over Detroit

You Can Thank The Koch Brothers For The Big, Dirty Cloud Floating Over Detroit: A large black cloud spotted over the Detroit River last weekend is confirmed to be petroleum coke, a byproduct of tar sands refining, owned by Koch Carbon.

Endless Summer: How Climate Change Could Wipe Out Surfing

Endless Summer: How Climate Change Could Wipe Out Surfing: Pro surfer Dan Ross has been surfing since he was 5 years old and he's starting to see some dramatic changes.

How Maryland’s New Climate Plan Could Actually Lower Energy Costs

How Maryland’s New Climate Plan Could Actually Lower Energy Costs: Maryland's Climate Action Plan could actually lower electricity prices and boost job growth for the state's residents.

It Can't Happen Here? But it IS Happening There!

Congressional Task Force: Yes, Intensifying Wildfires Are Due to Climate Change | Common Dreams

Congressional Task Force: Yes, Intensifying Wildfires Are Due to Climate Change | Common Dreams
"A Congressional task force of representatives and climate experts convened on Tuesday, where they concluded that the worsening of wildfires devastating the U.S. is in fact due to climate change, an unprecedented statement for a government body."

A Nation On Fire: Climate Change And The Burning Of America

A Nation On Fire: Climate Change And The Burning Of America: Climate change is altering the fundamentals in the West, bringing higher temperatures, earlier snowmelt that extends the fire season, severe and prolonged drought, and insect infestations that kill millions of acres of trees.

New Study Shows Sea Levels Rising Faster, Higher Than Previously Thought (INTERACTIVE MAP)

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/31/new-study-shows-sea-levels-rising-faster-higher-than-previously-thought/
"basically, atmospheric carbon levels are like a very heavy, very fast train. Even if we can put the brakes on it, the mass and inertia involved means it will take a while for the train to stop completely. We have ignored the problem for so long — thank you, climate change deniers and greedy oil & gas companies — that it’s nearly impossible, at this point, to even slow it down."

New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir Dries Up

New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir Dries Up: The extreme drought that's gripped New Mexico for the past three years hasn't let up. Now, the state's largest aquifer is down to historically low levels, causing major problems for the state's people and wildlife.

Alberta Regulator Approves Jackpine Mine Expansion Despite "Irreversible" Environmental Impacts

Tax Corporate Polluters, Not Students - with Robert Reich

Divestment: An Old But Effective Strategy Is Being Revived For Climate Change Fight

www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/30/divestment-strategy-climate-change/
"This movement consists of students at more than 300 university campuses, including all eight Ivy League schools, and even got attention from President Obama in his big climate change speech. McKibben has been successful in shining a major political spotlight on the Keystone XL pipeline, the future of which is in serious doubt at the moment."

Fossil Fuels’ Deadly Summer and the Growing Resistance | Alternet

Fossil Fuels’ Deadly Summer and the Growing Resistance | Alternet
"Disaster after disaster has plagued the fossil fuel industry, just as pressure is mounting to end its dominance."

Is Monsanto Spying on You?

Tar Sands Oil Has Been Leaking Into Alberta For 10 Weeks And No One Knows How To Stop It

Tar Sands Oil Has Been Leaking Into Alberta For 10 Weeks And No One Knows How To Stop It: The first leak was reported on May 20, with three others following in the weeks after -- making it at least 10 weeks that oil has been flowing unabated.

Greenland Ice Sheet: "Starting to Slip"

President Obama Ruptures John Boehner’s Pipeline of Keystone XL Lies

www.politicususa.com/2013/07/28/obama-boehner-keystone.html
"What Rep. Boehner never tells anyone when he discusses the project is that he stands to personally benefit from its approval.Boehner is invested in seven tar sands companies that will benefit from the pipeline’s construction. This is why Boehner keeps lying about the values and virtues of Keystone."

'There Is An Alternative': 44 Arrested at Coal Plant Protest | Common Dreams

'There Is An Alternative': 44 Arrested at Coal Plant Protest | Common Dreams
"Hundreds of climate activists from across New England marched on the Brayton Point Coal Plant in Somerset, Massachusetts on Sunday in an attempt to shut down the largest—and protesters say "dirtiest"—fossil fuel plant in the northeast."

“Ridiculous pseudo-science garbage”: Meet the GOP’s environment leaders! | Alternet

“Ridiculous pseudo-science garbage”: Meet the GOP’s environment leaders! | Alternet
"What do the 8 Republicans who sit on the Senate Environment Committee think about climate change? We break it down"

Tsunami of Public Outrage Builds in Colorado as Fracking Invades Cities | Alternet

Tsunami of Public Outrage Builds in Colorado as Fracking Invades Cities | Alternet
"What's happening in Greeley should frighten the citizens of every city that sits atop a shale deposit."

Poll: Young Voters Call Climate Deniers "Ignorant," "Out of Touch," "Crazy"

www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/07/poll-young-voters-climate-lcv
"Republicans in Congress who reject the science behind climate change could soon be reduced to political fossils, with new polling on Wednesday suggesting three-quarters of young voters find such views "ignorant, out of touch or crazy"."

“Ridiculous pseudo-science garbage”: Meet the GOP’s environment leaders!

“Ridiculous pseudo-science garbage”: Meet the GOP’s environment leaders!
"As scientists agree that the problem of man-made climate change is getting more and more urgent, a review of their records reveals that all eight Republican senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee do not believe the phenomenon even exists."

The Scariest Lake in the World Sits at the North Pole | Common Dreams

The Scariest Lake in the World Sits at the North Pole | Common Dreams
"Though the area of ice cover expands and contracts each year with the change in seasons, the photos show that the pole has been progressively melting since at least 2002."

Halliburton Agrees To Plead Guilty To Destruction Of Evidence In 2010 BP Spill, Pay Maximum Fine

Halliburton Agrees To Plead Guilty To Destruction Of Evidence In 2010 BP Spill, Pay Maximum Fine: On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that Halliburton had agreed to plead guilty to criminally destroying evidence in the investigation of the BP Gulf oil spill in 2010. The company “signed a cooperation and guilty plea agreement,” will pay the maximum fine of $200,000, and undergo three years of probation. It also had already [...]/p

Report: North Pole Now a Lake

Report: North Pole Now a Lake
"The north pole, that great bastion of eternal cold and barren ice, is now a lake.

It’s a shallow lake, about a foot deep. It’s a cold lake. But it is, actually, a lake."

Fungicides Kill Pollinators: Study Reveals Industrial Farming's Threat to Bees | Common Dreams

Fungicides Kill Pollinators: Study Reveals Industrial Farming's Threat to Bees | Common Dreams
"Bees exposed to the fungicide chlorothalonil were three times more likely to be infected by a parasite linked to Colony Collapse Disorder, according to the research published Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE."

How Governor O’Malley Plans To Ensure Maryland Meets Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets

How Governor O’Malley Plans To Ensure Maryland Meets Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets: In 2009, Maryland set the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent, and today, Governor Martin O’Malley announced a comprehensive plan that could actually allow the state to meet it. O’Malley, who has been governor since 2006, made the announcement at a climate change summit at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum, Maryland in [...]/p

Climate Poll: Three-Quarters Of Young, Independent Voters Describe Deniers As ‘Ignorant, Out Of Touch Or Crazy’

Climate Poll: Three-Quarters Of Young, Independent Voters Describe Deniers As ‘Ignorant, Out Of Touch Or Crazy’: A new poll has found climate science denialism in Congress is quickly losing favor among young voters, both Republican and Democrat. The poll, conducted by Democratic and Republican firms for the League of Conservation Voters, found 73 percent of respondents associate climate change deniers with words like “ignorant,” “out-of-touch” or “crazy.” The firms conducted telephone [...]/p

House Republicans Sacrifice Environment To Spite Obama

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Fukushima Continues to Spew Its Darkness | Common Dreams

Fukushima Continues to Spew Its Darkness | Common Dreams
"Radiation leaks, steam releases, disease and death continue to spew from Fukushima and a disaster which is far from over.  Its most profound threat to the global ecology—a spent fuel fire—is still very much with us."

Is a Sleeping Giant Stirring in the Arctic?

New Research Finds Melting Arctic May Cost Global Economy $60 Trillion

New Research Finds Melting Arctic May Cost Global Economy $60 Trillion: The rapidly melting Arctic is not only a looming climate catastrophe, but new research shows it could be an economic disaster, as well. In findings published in the journal Nature, economists and polar scientists from the University of Cambridge and Erasmus University Rotterdam found that the ripple effects of climate change in the Arctic — [...]/p

Fire Breaks Out On Evacuated Gulf Gas Well

Fire Breaks Out On Evacuated Gulf Gas Well
"Federal officials say fire has broken out on an out-of-control natural gas well in the Gulf of Mexico well just hours after it was evacuated on Tuesday."

11 Reasons to Divest from the Fossil Fuel Industry | Common Dreams

11 Reasons to Divest from the Fossil Fuel Industry | Common Dreams
"There is a robust debate happening in university halls, around religious congregations, and at individual kitchen tables nationwide. The driving question: Should we divest from the fossil fuel industry?"

Is Climate Change Driving the Southwest Toward a Dust Bowl? | Alternet

Is Climate Change Driving the Southwest Toward a Dust Bowl? | Alternet
"A severe drought in the Southwest is devastating crops and farm communities—and sending a warning about climate change."

Arctic Methane "Burp": A Climate Catastrophe with $60 Trillion Pricetag | Common Dreams

Arctic Methane "Burp": A Climate Catastrophe with $60 Trillion Pricetag | Common Dreams
"Warning that a dramatic "burp" or "pulse" of methane from beneath the fragile permafrost of the Arctic caused by continued global warming would set off a "climate catastrophe," a new study says that the continued melting is also an economic "time bomb" that could cost the global economy $60 trillion."

How Last Week’s Hearing On The Social Cost Of Carbon Put Right-Wing Objections To Bed

How Last Week’s Hearing On The Social Cost Of Carbon Put Right-Wing Objections To Bed: While the White House’s recent revision to the social cost of carbon (SCC) is still raising hackles amongst Republicans and conservatives, a hearing last week quietly put to bed any substantive concerns with the update. At their worst, critics of the move have characterized it as an environmentalist con or an undemocratic power grab, thus [...]/p

USDA Fast-Tracks 'Rubber-Stamp' Approval of 'Dangerous' GE Seeds | Common Dreams

USDA Fast-Tracks 'Rubber-Stamp' Approval of 'Dangerous' GE Seeds | Common Dreams
"The USDA 'rubber-stamped' the first of many 'dangerous' new genetically engineered (GE) seeds Friday under the department's new streamlined approval process."