Reducing Air Pollution is Well Worth the Cost
Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA is required to protect states from sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution emitted from coal plants in other states. After dragging its feet…
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Climate Skeptics Misunderstand Us, Too
Heartland_Logo.png So recently, I’ve watched a few videos from the Heartland Institute conference on “Restoring the Scientific Method”—and it has been a fascinating experi...
Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis a Sovereignty Crisis
Greek Parliament, Syntagma Athens – by kouk News outlets around the world have focused heavily on the so-called Greek Sovereign debt crisis this week. The proposed solution–an IMF loan package…
Creator of the Valdez Catastrophe, ExxonMobil, Tries to Downplay Yellowstone Spill
03oil2-articleInline.jpg The ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Montana ruptured late Friday night, leaking 1,000 barrels of oil into the river. ExxonMobil ...
Cut Defense!!!!!!!!!
The Defense budget in the U.S is 20% of the U.S budget. That is of course double than what it was in 2001. If the U.S wants to get back…
Americans For Prosperity Sues New York For Participating In Regional Climate Pact
235px-Rggi_map.svg_.png The Koch brothers’ corporate front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) filed a lawsuit on Monday in New York’s State Supreme Court seeking to reverse a core ...
Voters Strongly Oppose Michele Bachmann’s Proposal to Abolish the EPA
Building on an idea that seems to have originated with Newt Gingrich, Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has spent the past few weeks calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to be…
Up then Down
Gay equality is on a rollercoaster this week. With New York legalizing gay marriage and a poll showing that a majority of Americans support gay marriage one would think that…
When Facts Don’t Matter: Proving The Problem With Fox News
ff-20110127-globalwarming.jpg My two posts about Fox News and misinformation are probably the most popular items I’ve contributed here. They’ve been widely linked, Twee...
Raise the Debt Ceiling!
Some Republicans are living in a fantasy world thinking that there is way to continue business as usual even though the debt is above the debt ceiling. Even if the…
6 Down 44 to Go.
And now the major state of New York will join the 4 other new England states and the lonely Midwestern state in the equality of all people. Gay people can…
Use University Research to Increase Manufacturing Jobs
Manufacturing jobs have been declinining as a percentage of total jobs in most OECD countries for several decades, with Ontario being especially hard-hit as a jurisdiction. At the end of…
Jon Stewart 1, Politfact 0: Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed
ff-20110127-globalwarming.jpg I have a lot of respect for political fact checking sites. I think they play a critical role, especially in our misinformation-saturated political and media environm...
The Fox News Effect: Sea Level Edition
ff-20110127-globalwarming.jpg Climate scientists--and other scientists--are always improving and updating their methods. That's how science works. And it's a very good and honorable thing--or at ...
The Pawlenty Plan Part 1
Republicans talk about how the government is broke and we can't afford to continue to spend the way are spending. In the video Pawlenty sent to declare his candidacy he…
President Obama’s Fracking Panel Unmoved By Pennsylvanians’ Water Concerns
Picture-11.png On Monday, the Natural Gas Subcommittee, from Energy Department Secretary Stephen Chu’s Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), held its second public meeting. Around 400 people ...
NBC/GE, Dylan Ratigan Show, and the Methane Gas-Media Industrial Complex
Dylan Ratigan firewater.png Yesterday, I published an article for the Center for Media and Democracy's PRWatch titled, "MSNBC's (GE's) Dylan Ratigan Show 'Firewater?' Series: Natural Gas Industry...
My On Trek To Washington trip!
I will be going to Washington next week I hope to keep you posted on my voyage. You may recall the title of this post it comes from the famous…
Interior Dept Okays Thousands Of New Unconventional Gas Wells In Utah
kensalazar.jpg Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that his department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are fast-tracking unconventional gas drilling permits in Utah&...