US Tar Sands Operations Challenged By Grassroots Opposition
While many environmental advocates urge consumers to buy local, in this case, local isn’t always better. While the Canadian tar sands are more notorious, developments here in the US are…
Laurel Whitney
New Nature Study Calls Melting Underwater Arctic Permafrost An "Economic Time Bomb"
Three academics walk into a bar. After what must have been the worst happy hour ever, they emerge having discovered that melting oceanic permafrost could come with a hefty $60…
USGS Study Connects Earthquake Risk To Wastewater Injection, Fracking Advocates Say, "Who Cares?"
A new study out in Science by US Geological Survey scientist William Ellsworth links earthquakes to wastewater injection sites. These earthquakes, thought to be caused by pressure changes due to…
Tim DeChristopher, Imprisoned For Nearly Two Years, To Be Released On Earth Day
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher is set to be released from prison on Earth Day, this Sunday April 21st, since being incarcerated on July 26, 2011. Tim DeChristopher created quite a…
Shell Wriggles Free Of Oil Spill Liability In Nigeria, But Case Is Far From Closed
A Dutch court acquitted oil giant Shell of allegations regarding oil contamination in Nigeria. Reported earlier in The Guardian, the court ruled in favor of the company for 4 counts…
Thousands of Miners’ Benefits In Jeopardy As Patriot Coal Claims Bankruptcy
On January 29, Patriot Coal Co. will begin Chapter 11 bankruptcy hearings in St. Louis, MO claiming that it’s become a “victim of the markets” and can no longer pay…
How Electric Providers Use Sleazy Scams To Sell Energy
Imagine this: You’re working from home on a Friday, winding down from the week, furiously reading the latest climate news until you commute from the living room to your bed…
Medical And Scientific Experts Urge Halting Fracking Rush Until Medical Unknowns Are Better Understood
This week, the group Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) declared they would submit a petition to the White House signed by 107 experts to urge the administration…
ACCCE PR Rhetoric On Low-Income Households Does Not Compute
The ACCCE PR robots suffered a bit of malfunction recently when attempting to spit out the coal industry's usual talking points. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released…
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Cites Climate Change
Earlier today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave his official endorsement to President Barack Obama. After a lukewarm statement yesterday about climate’s effect on the storm, now climate change…
Climate Silence No More As Sandy Rips Through the East Coast
There’s a question I often pose to my undergrad students after discussing the many implications of climate change: “Do you think we’ll be able to change before it’s too late,…
New York Farmers Sound Off On Cuomo’s Decision To Delay Fracking
That gush of wind some New York residents felt earlier this week presumably came from thousands of simultaneous “finger sparkles” as anti-fracking activists rejoiced while industry executives collectively grunted and…
Amidst Record Drought, Report Shows Massive Water Requirements For Nonrenewable Fuels
If you haven’t heard about the major droughts afflicting most of the US this summer, then you may just have your head in the sand (or more likely a water-parched…
Why Is Pfizer Still Aligning Itself With Heartland Institute On "Public Health" Record?
Pfizer.png The Heartland Institute has had a rough time the last couple of months. The climate denial shop has endured the release of embarrassing leaked documents. Then it launched a…
States Continue To Push For Anti-Climate and Anti-Evolution Curriculum Laws
confused-child.jpg It looks like Tennessee can add another dumb law to join the ranks of other special ones such as being able to shoot whales out of a car, marrying…
400 PPM Carbon Dioxide Concentrations Breach The Arctic
Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide.png There's a saying that trouble comes in threes. Earlier this week, the International Energy Administration announced that emissions reached a record high last year, increasing by 1 Gt worldwide.…
Chesapeake Energy And Other Fracking Companies Squatting On New York Citizens’ Land
chesapeake-energy-logo.jpg New York landowners are having a hard time evicting an unwanted tenant, it seems. That's why over 200 people residing in the Marcellus Shale are suing energy companies such…
NRDC Report Predicts 150,000 Heat-Related Deaths Due To Climate Change
Melting Ice People WWF Rosa Merk.jpg Chances are, if you're already concerned about being off'ed by climate change, it's probably because you imagine being swept away by a super-charged hurricane,…