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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Critical List: DeChristopher sentencing today; Gingrich invests in renewables

Activist Tim DeChristopher's sentencing is scheduled for today. He could go to prison for as many as 10 years.

Congress is still hard at work cutting funding for all manner of environmental programs.

With the West out as a customer, Iran is selling its natural gas to Iraq and Syria.

Painting roofs white could save a year's worth of emissions

Oh good, the heat wave really IS a government conspiracy!

Could Murdoch's News Corp be behind Climategate too?

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation should be considered a suspect in climategate, the hacking of climate scientists' e-mail accounts back in 2009.

Republicans: We must protect children from energy efficiency

Republican Rep. Sandy Adams wants to limit funding for Department of Energy websites that educate kids about efficiency. She doesn't know how much money that will save, but by god, we must stop children learning at any cost!