Spruce Mine Mountaintop Removal Coal Permit Restored
mine.gif In late March, a federal court ruled to open the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, WV, to mountaintop removal coal mining. The EPA had originally vetoed the…
Laurel Whitney
As The Maldives Slowly Erode Away: A Review Of "The Island President" Documentary
photo4thumb.jpg Mohamed "Anni" Nasheed caught widespread attention when he held a cabinet meeting underneath the sea in the months leading up to the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. He continued…
Oil Industry Lobbyist / Mushroom Farmer Claims Family Farms Need Fracking
Fracking_Graphic_t670.jpg Because apparently the only way for small American farmers to sustain themselves is not with crops they produce, but by letting the good 'ole gas man tap the reserves…
BREAKING: Tim DeChristopher Moved To Isolated Confinement
TimDeChristopher.png According to a press release sent from Tim DeChristopher's organization, Peaceful Uprising, Tim was recently moved from the minimum security camp at Federal Correctional Institute Herlong in California to…
Big Oil Rakes In Billions, Still Complains Taxes Are Too High
20080810-violin.jpg The President rolled out his FY2013 budget recently, which includes eliminating $40 billion in tax breaks from Big Oil companies, such as BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell. Meanwhile,…
Congressional ‘Scientific Integrity’ Hearing On Fracking In WY Is Quite Lacking In Scientists
120711_ECE03.JPG After starting the morning off with a little ritual stomping on the freedom of the press by ordering the arrest of Gasland director Josh Fox, the Republican members of…
Josh Fox Arrested For "Unlawful Entry" At Congressional Fracking Public Hearing, GOP Attacks 1st Amendment Rights
Josh Fox Arrested.png Earlier this morning, "Gasland" filmmaker and anti-fracking advocate Josh Fox was ejected out of the Energy and Environment subcommittee meeting on fracking after he attempted to film…
New York Looks To Local Bans On Fracking
logo_350.jpeg As the New York moratorium on fracking continues to hang in jeopardy, towns within the state are taking it upon themselves to issue fracking bans locally, what may become…
EPA Comments On New York’s Environmental Impact Assessment: Hey…You Missed A Few Things
legoBiohazard01 resized.jpg On the heels of receiving over 40,000 citizen comments on their environmental impact assessment, it looks like the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is also getting…
Permission Denied: Bulgaria Says "No" To Chevron’s Exploratory Fracking
Bulgaria Protest Tsvetelina Beloutova.jpg No kinky stuff, Bulgaria declared as it limited Chevron in using only conventional drilling techniques and not hydraulic fracturing. The Bulgarian government voted to prohibit Chevron…
Radionuclides Tied To Shale Gas Fracking Can’t Be Ignored As Possible Health Hazard
minor-radiation-leak.jpg Comic books tell us that it's cool to be a superhero. Sometimes those superheroes started out as everyday citizens that became irradiated and suddenly transformed into epic, superhuman, ninja-fighting…
Are New York Lawmakers Poised To Throw Upstate Residents Under The Fracking Bus?
NYS watershed.jpg Despite last week’s temporary win protecting the Delaware River Basin and its inhabitants from natural gas fracking, the debate rages on in New York State. Lawmakers, industry lobbyists…
ACCCE Doesn’t Want To Pony Up For Life-Saving, Job-Creating New Emissions Standards
scrooge-mcduck-make-it-rain.jpeg The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is apparently trying to show the EPA its empty pockets as a new set of standards capping mercury, arsenic, acid gases,…
Another Blow To Dirty Energy: Fracking Nixed In The Delaware River Basin
Hydrofracking-picture.jpg Last night, big news erupted across the Northeast with an announcement that fracking in the Delaware River Basin, a pristine watershed that supplies water to over 15 million people,…
New Danish Government Axes Bjorn Lomborg’s $1.6 Million In Funding
bjorn-lomborg.jpg Finally, a vestigial government-funded program actually worth cutting gets taken out as Denmark's new regime change is opting to excise Bjorn Lomborg's $1.6 million in f...
Video of Keystone XL Tar Sands Protesters Arrested At The White House
6107318134_aeb5a1e3f9_z.jpg Usually the best way to solve a neighborly spat is to march right up to the door and talk it out, face-to-face. However, if said neighbor happens to be…
Over One Hundred Arrested Protesting Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline At White House
Steve Liptay.jpg The DC police force must have recently put in a big order for plasti-cuffs. The commencement of the Keystone XL pipeline protest, which kicked off this past weekend,…
The Bidder 70 26: The Catalyst That Will Ignite The Climate Movement
B70_Sentencing_072611_RS_13.jpg The night before Tim DeChristopher's sentencing was like any other before an action - we were all up way too late, distressed about work that hadn’t gotten d...
BREAKING: Tim DeChristopher Sentenced To Two Years In Prison
TimDeChristopher.png At 3:00 pm MST today, the end of a very long and emotional saga came to fruition as the gavel banged down on the judge’s desk in a federal…