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It's been a bad stretch recently for dirty coal, the country's largest source of global warming emissions. First, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped up and contributed big time to the Sierra Club's fierce Beyond Coal campaign. And now news comes that coal's share of U.S. electricity production during the first quarter of this 2011 added up to i...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Shameful, but not surprising in the least. In order to drum up support for the heinously environmentally destructive tar sands project and the Keystone XL pipeline that would connect it to the United States, oil companies are using fake Twitter accounts to tweet nice things about them. The Guardian and the Rainforest Action Network have more....Read the full story on TreeHugger
Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, last captured the nation's attention with his passionate sort-of-filibuster that took on the rising income inequality gulf in America, and skewered a political culture that increasingly favors the wealthy and corporate interests. Now, one of the nation's last truly populist senators is publicly condemning the proposed tar sands pipeline that the Obama administration is currently considering for approval -- and applauding the good folks<...Read the full story on TreeHugger
This is bound to be challenged by every single environmental group with a stake here, but it's still really not encouraging: New York Times reports that the Department of Interior has granted Shell conditional approval to start drilling oil exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean starting next summer. The proposed drill sites are in the Beaufort Sea just north of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, and east of Prudhoe Bay and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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With the recent fight over the debt ceiling in Congress, Wisconsin's upcoming recall elections have not been national news much like the state's heated politics were earlier this year. Yet many Wisconsin residents are working hundreds of volunteer hours knocking on doors and calling their fellow voters to make sure people vote in Read the full story on TreeHugger
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If you have even a fleeting passion for the environment, you probably already know what a monstrosity Canada's tar sands are. It's been dubbed the "most environmentally destructive project on Earth". A 1,700 mile pipeline that would pump the stuff to refineries along the Gulf coast, the Keystone XL, is currently awaiting the go-ahead from the Obama administration. Which is why scientists, e...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Apropos of last week's frank (and frankly disturbing) revelation from the head of the US Coast Guard, that they have zero capacity to deal with an oil spill in the Arctic: After submitting Freedom of Information Act requests to the State of Alaska and two Federal agencies, Oceana found out that the most recent public Arctic oil spill clean up tests were done in 2000 and, as the video above shows, were categorically a failure. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Poor old Jon Huntsman. To my eyes, he's the most sensible and intellectually capable candidate to emerge in the GOP field yet. He's moderate, and acknowledges the existence of both science and reality. Case in point: during a recent campaign speech, Hunstman noted that the United States has "a heroin-like addiction to imported oil." And he's got that silvery-gray hair that makes him look all presidential! Of course, all the those things cited above (besides maybe the silve...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It's been a bad stretch recently for dirty coal, the country's largest source of global warming emissions. First, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped up and contributed big time to the Sierra Club's fierce Beyond Coal campaign. And now news comes that coal's share of U.S. electricity production during the first quarter of this 2011 added up to i...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Shameful, but not surprising in the least. In order to drum up support for the heinously environmentally destructive tar sands project and the Keystone XL pipeline that would connect it to the United States, oil companies are using fake Twitter accounts to tweet nice things about them. The 
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