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Two new pieces delve into the denial industry
If you are interested in the climate change denial industry, you need to check out two crucial new pieces, which are running in conjunction. First, the American News Project’s "Smoke and CO2: How to Spin Global Warming," which highlights the the historical links between the effort to deny tobacco science and the effort to deny […]
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How current GHG policy distorts capital allocation
As we think about how to price GHG emissions, it’s often (and accurately) cited that having a meaningful conversation about GHG pricing first requires that we remove all the existing subsidies so that we can stop irrationally allocating capital. Clearly, we can’t provide insurance liability waivers to nuclear and ratepayer guarantees to regulated utilities and […]
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Climate change will further spread of wildlife-to-human diseases, says report
Climate change is likely to further the spread of a “deadly dozen” diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans, says a new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society. The nasties: avian flu, babesiosis, cholera, Ebola, Lyme disease, parasites, plague, red tide, Rift Valley fever, sleeping sickness, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. Whee! “The term ‘climate […]
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Hot new ergonomic desk chair: 96 percent recyclable
The successor to Herman Miller’s wildly successful Aeron ergonomic desk chair is coming to a lazy, cube-drone posterior near you. It’s called the Embody and … gimme. As a DFH, though, should I be satisfied with a chair that’s only 96 percent recyclable? After last year’s epic hunt for the best ergo chair, I ended […]
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Coal miners in West Virginia stay home in protest of anti-Obama NRA tactics
Coal production at the Blacksville No. 2 Mine in Monongalia County, W.Va., came to a halt for one day last week when all the miners stayed home in protest after a National Rifle Association camera crew tried to get them to bad-mouth Barack Obama on film. The United Mineworkers of America has endorsed the Democratic […]
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The bailout, the war, and renewable energy
While the renewable energy industry in the U.S. celebrates a rare victory — winning an eight-year extension of its federal tax subsidies — no one should forget what we’ve lost. Forget for a moment the recurring costs of an inflated defense budget. Chalmers Johnson has tallied those. Let’s look at the two biggest items, the […]
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States ranked on energy efficiency, Grist provides drinking game
We suggest that while reading this blurb, you take a drink at every mention of “efficient” or “efficiency.” And go! California, Oregon, and Connecticut are taking the lead in improving energy efficiency, according to the 2008 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. In the face of high energy […]
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How to actually deliver green-collar jobs to those who need them
Over the next few decades, converting the Pacific Northwest to a place of compact, walkable communities that run on superefficient, renewable energy system — a climate-safe economy — will be a lot of work: paid work. But for all the exciting announcements of solar jobs and green-tech investment that pepper the newspapers, the skill sets […]
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CNN reports on the battle for Coal River Mountain in W.Va.
In August, we brought you the story of Coal River Mountain, one of the last mountains in West Virginia’s Coal River Valley that hasn’t been destroyed by mountaintop-removal coal mining. Residents are lobbying to build a wind farm on the mountain, but Massey Energy is moving ahead on plans to strip-mine a 10-square-mile area of […]
