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A new NYT blog about oil
The New York Times has a new blog about oil called Pipeline. Sadly, it’s behind the $elect pay wall, so most of you will never get to read it. Here’s a bit from the first post: In Nigeria, stolen oil is accelerating decades-old conflicts by bringing together the poor, the thugs and the powerful. For […]
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Dude, You’re Gettin’ a Conscience
PC honcho Michael Dell announces new green initiatives Amidst the energy-sucking glitz of Las Vegas, PC magnate Michael Dell announced that his eponymous company is greening up, and encouraged others to follow suit. Dell addressed two green-itiatives at an International Consumer Electronics Show speech yesterday. The first, a new partnership with carbon-offset provider Carbonfund, will […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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:
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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 […]
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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? […]
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‘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.
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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’ […]
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