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Bachmann pledges to have the EPA's 'doors locked and lights turned off'
If Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann can't abolish the EPA like she promised, she may just try to lock employees out of the building
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Scenes from the DeChristopher sentencing [VIDEO]
Get an up-close glimpse of the peaceful, positive protests at Tim DeChristopher's sentencing in Salt Lake City on July 26.
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The Onion reports on puzzling behavior among climate scientists
All of a sudden, these normally gentle creatures are becoming agitated and making noises with their mouths! What is it, guys? Is Timmy stuck in a well?
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Hung out to dry: Why clothesline bans are wrongheaded
Some homeowners associations ban solar drying, threatening offenders with fines and even forced expulsion for saving energy costs by hanging their wash out to dry. Help map the places with restrictions on the right to sun-dry.
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Destroying nature so people can look at nature in Yosemite Park
Yosemite National Park is a great place for appreciating nature, what with the mountains and the wildlife and so forth. But there's one thing spoiling the bucolic beauty for everyone: All those damn trees. They are so in the way! They're like the mist that comes up off Niagara Falls and ruins all your photographs. If only they'd cut them down, so we could get back to looking at nature!
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Critical List: How to support Tim DeChristopher; white dudes think they're smarter than science
Want to support Tim DeChristopher? Go to Washington in August to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. "Consider this your call to action," said Peaceful Uprising, the group DeChristopher founded.
BREAKING: Conservative white dudes (aka the Jim Inhofe Fan Club) are most likely to think they're smarter than science, i.e. doubt the existence of climate change.
In California, though, everyone -- even conservatives -- supports cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. -
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GOP: Why can't we mine for uranium in the Grand Canyon?
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has extended the moratorium on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon through the end of the year, and House Republicans are grumpy. I mean, there's uranium there ... the hole is already mostly dug ... it's basically a perfect mining opportunity! So they're sticking a rider onto an Interior Department appropriations bill that would open the land back up.
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Tim DeChristopher’s statement to the court
After being sentenced to two years in prison and slapped with a $10,000 fine, here's what Tim DeChristopher told the prosecution and the judge.
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26 DeChristopher supporters arrested
Peaceful Uprising's Joshua Kahn Russell reports from the scene of the sentencing of Tim DeChristopher and subsequent arrests of 26 supporters.
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Billionaire carves his name on island
Hamad bin Hamdan al Ahyan is a real-life Chairface Chippendale. He owns a private island near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, but what fun is that if everyone doesn't know it's yours? So he wrote his name on it, in letters a third of a mile long that are visible from space.
