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Board election means club won’t take a stance on immigration limits
The neutralizers carried the day in the Sierra Club's contentious board election, which wrapped up today.
Sierra Club members turned out in historic numbers this year ... to reject a ballot initiative that would have forced the group to support restrictions on immigration. Over fifteen percent of the Club's membership returned 122,308 ballots -- the second highest in the Club's recent history -- and defeated the anti-immigration measure by more than a 5 to 1 margin.
In addition to calling for club policy to remain neutral on immigration, members also elected five establishment-backed board members, while board candidates who advocated immigration restrictions, backed by Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization, were soundly squashed.
So immigration's off the table, until next year's election ...
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Sprol
Check out this blog, Sprol, which gathers satellite images and descriptions of "the worst places on Earth" -- i.e., the places most ravaged by human activity. It's fascinating.
(Via Dave Pollard)
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Dress down for the earth
Well here's an energy-saving program I can get behind!
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Big Media Dave
So, this past Friday I was on a radio show called Oregon Territory, which as far as I can tell is pretty wide-ranging.
The subject was peak oil. You can listen here. The first segment is with a petroleum geologist from ARCO; the second is with me.
I've discovered the key to good radio: Do pre-taped shows where they take your rambling and edit it to make you sound smart.
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The Loan Changer
J.P. Morgan to green lending policies Today, New York banking giant J.P. Morgan Chase will issue new lending policies with an environmental bent. Although the company denies it was pressured into the shift, the bank’s pledge is similar to those made in recent months by other financial institutions like Citigroup and Bank of America that […]
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Everything coal is new again
Congress seeks tax money to make defunct “clean coal” plant dirty again For aficionados of government pork, the energy bill that recently passed the House is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest gem uncovered is a provision that would offer $125 million in loan guarantees to a “clean coal” power plant in Alaska. […]
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Shock and Thaw
New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Antarctic to research a big three-part series on climate change for The New Yorker. What did she find? Well, it’s all melting. The Alaskan […]
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Allan Thornton, environmental investigator, answers questions
Allan Thornton. What work do you do? I run the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit environmental group with offices in Washington, D.C., and London. I generally oversee the strategic development of the organization, which includes targeting research, deploying investigative teams to obtain documentary evidence, and exposing environmental crimes; I work in close cooperation with our […]
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Before Sunset
Language in budget bill could unravel federal environmental protections Buried deep in the 2,000-page budget bill President Bush recently sent to Congress is a three-sentence provision that threatens to eviscerate environmental and other protections. Authored by the White House Office of Management and Budget, the provision would, if passed unamended, subject any and all federal […]
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