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Kids in the Holiday
Grist takes a winter break You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, we’re telling you why: Grist ain’t gonna be in your inbox for the next two weeks. Yes, even environmental journalists like to kick back with a cup of eggnog once in a while, and that once in a […]
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Polar Distress
Enviro groups sue to get species-act protection for polar bears This week’s news about drowning polar bears got you all riled up? You’re not the only one. Yesterday, three green groups sued in federal court to force the Bush administration to consider listing the bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Greenpeace, the Center […]
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Is It Hot in Here, Or Is It Just Me?
2005 to be one of the hottest years recorded This year will go down as one of the hottest on record. NASA’s Goddard Institute says 2005 will beat 1998, the current record-holder, while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.K. Meteorological Office — using the same land and ocean data as NASA, but […]
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Drill Sergeant
Stevens moves to hook Arctic Refuge drilling to military spending Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is getting downright desperate; it seems he’ll go to any lengths to get oil drills into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His latest plan has him attaching an Arctic-drilling provision to a popular military spending bill, hoping that lawmakers won’t risk […]
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An escaped prisoner’s natural inclinations
A while back, we ran an article on the prison-environment connection. I was reminded of it today when reading an interview with Charles Thompson about his escape last month from a Texas jail. This was the first quote from the death-row inmate: "I got to smell the trees, feel the wind in my hair, grass under my feet, see the stars at night. It took me straight back to childhood being outside on a summer night."
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Blood for oil?
The price of gas too much for you? Donate some blood and get a $5 gift card from ExxonMobil.
(Via BB)
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How South American biofuels are gaining steam, and why that freaks the U.S. out
In his drab office in the fashion-obsessed chaos of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Edmundo Defferrari cuts a farmhand’s figure in a corporate man’s world. Soy is growing up down south. Photo: USDA/Keith Weller. The 28-year-old industrial engineer, in cap, jeans, and scruffy beard, taps through a PowerPoint presentation choked with graphs, statistics, and cartoon renderings […]
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The Arctic Shuffle
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One questioner pointed out the tepid support for ANWR from oil companies, "leading some on Wall Street to say this is more of a political issue than an energy economics issue." Another person pointed out that Norton's forecast of a million barrels a day from ANWR was "somewhat underwhelming."
If geologists were to decide that there were only three thimbles of oil beneath area 1002, there would still be something to be said for going down to get them, just to prove that this nation cannot be forever paralyzed by people wielding environmentalism as a cover for collectivism.
It's not about oil any more, it's about political power, and if they have to piss on one of the country's last untouched places to prove their wankers are bigger, they'll do it.
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An interview with Kathleen McGinty, Pennsylvania’s green go-getter
Kathleen McGinty, head of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection, approaches the state’s environmental challenges with an optimistic “let’s-get-it-done” attitude. Early in her career, she made waves as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and deputy assistant to then-President Bill Clinton. After creating and heading up the first-ever White House Office on Environmental […]
