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Anything You Can Ban, I Can Unban Better

Bush opens Alaska’s 5.6-million-acre Bristol Bay to drilling Just a few days after a bipartisan push to ban drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge made headlines, the U.S. Driller-in-Chief lifted a ban on resource extraction in Alaska’s 5.6-million-acre Bristol Bay. Playing the energy-security card, President Bush is raising hackles left and right: The bay […]

Flexing His OPECs

Schwarzenegger, E.U. unveil new carbon-cutting schemes California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) may be hobbled by a broken leg, but his mind is still strong. (File that under Sentences We Never Thought We’d Write.) In his State of the State address last night, the green-leaning Governator announced a plan to cut carbon in transportation fuel 10 […]

Ex-Interior secretary may be facing jail time

First the good news: the Justice department recently had a sit-down with erstwhile mining lobbyist and ex-Interior deputy Stephen Griles and outlined the federal criminal charges he faces.

Presumably they also brought photos of his potential future roommate, Bubba, in an effort to get him to flip on his former boss, Gale Norton.

Now for the better news:

A nifty video

This week, our InterActivist is a guy named John Amos, a former oil and gas geologist who left the industry to found a nonprofit called SkyTruth. (Send him a question!) SkyTruth uses satellite imagery to help people visualize the damage done by oil and gas drilling. Check out their latest video, on oil and gas […]

The wonkitude continues

DR: Over the past few years, the environmental movement has been in a period of self-flagellation about its ineffectiveness on the biggest issue of our time: climate change. You’ve been on both sides of the NGO/government divide. Do you have any words of wisdom on what environmental groups are doing wrong, or could do better? […]

‘Kyoto is a big effort for almost nothing’–Kyoto is only in its first phase

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide)

Objection: The Kyoto treaty, even if fully implemented, would only save us about a tenth of a degree of future temperature rise many decades from now. What a waste of effort! You can see for yourself here at the Junk Science website.

Answer: There are three big problems with this claim.

The Coup laments

In honor of President Bush’s speech tomorrow later today, in which he will announce a “surge” of new troops to Iraq, I give you the best love song of 2006: The Coup: “Baby Let’s Have a Baby Before Bush Do Somethin’ Crazy.” Lyrics below the fold. Baby let’s have a baby, before Bush do somethin’ […]

So says a Houston newspaper

So says the Houston Business Journal.

Reserve a free copy of An Inconvenient Truth for your campus

The kids over at Campus Climate Challenge and Truth on Campus are gearing up for a Week of Action January 29th through February 2nd. The five days of demonstrations will kick start the Challenge’s second semester and “put the heat on a new U.S. Congress and a returning Canadian Parliament to begin aggressive national power […]

Exxon brightens tone

Exxon is going to change the tone, but not the substance, of its position on global warming. Tone’s what matters, right?