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NYT reads the future: Senate Dems consider maybe doing something in 2010
What do they know that we don’t?A scoop in The New York Times doesn’t surprise me. A scoop from nine months into the future does. This morning the Times Environment page featured a ClimateWire story dated May 15, 2010. “Senators Spend Recess Fine-Tuning Messages on Cap and Trade” finds Senate Democrats still hand-wringing over the […]
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EPA reveals almost twice as many dangerous coal ash dumps as previously known
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released information showing there are 584 coal ash dump sites across the country — almost twice as many as previously identified. The facilities are located in 35 states and concentrated in Appalachia, the Southeast, Midwest and Intermountain West. The release [PDF] came late last Friday in response to a […]
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Coal lobby claims their grassroots support is “more organic” than green groups’
“This is the truest form of grass-roots there is. We don’t charge people to be members of the Citizen Army, so if anything, it’s more organic than what some of the environmental groups do. We allow these people to express their own opinions on these issues.” — Joe Lucas, senior vice president for communications at […]
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Top USDA official gets serious about local/regional food systems
Hope and fresh produce: Kathleen MerriganWith the climate bill gutted by Big Ag and stalled in the Senate, with health-care reform on the verge of collapse, prospects for real change in national politics are looking grim. Well, here’s some hope from what’s traditionally one of the executive branch’s most retrograde agencies: the USDA. USDA deputy […]
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The Real FACES of Coal: Adfero’s shadowy GOP beltway astroturf operatives
Cross-posted from Wonk Room. A new “grassroots” fossil fuel front group, FACES of Coal, is employing a shadowy Republican-staffed company to spread its message. The Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security — a new pro-mountaintop removal campaign that refuses to reveal its “grassroots” members — is employing a GOP Beltway shop to promote its […]
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White House announces Gulf restoration task force amid criticism of Army Corps
In response to criticism that the Army Corps of Engineers has failed to take needed action, President Obama is creating a federal task force to overhaul management of coastal restoration efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi. White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley made the announcement this week in an interview with Bloomberg News. […]
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Boycotting Whole Foods won’t help
The health care reform debate has provoked any number of crazy opinions, including the far-right fantasies of death panels or that Medicare isn’t a government-funded program. Two weeks ago, Whole Foods founder and CEO John Mackey added his own musings to the list with an editorial in the Wall Street Journal condemning “Obamacare” and any […]
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Carl Pope says 350 ppm not strong enough, endorses carbon pricing and global tax & dividend!
In the Sept/Oct issue of Sierra Club Magazine, Club Chairman Carl Pope details four “fallacies about solving global warming” that must be scrapped in order to achieve “the transformational global deal we need to save our planet” in Copenhagen. Put in positive terms, and looking only at the specifics, Pope outlines the following platform. 1. […]
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FACES of Coal are iStockphotos?!
The new coal industry front group “FACES” has yet to come forward with a list of their members. Well, thanks to a few new-media gumshoes, including Appalachian Voices’ Jamie Goodman and our friends at DeSmogBlog, we’ve learned that not only is FACES hosted by a K-Street firm called Adfero, but all of the FACES of […]
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Netroots Nation panel on blogging and climate change [VIDEO!!1!]
On Aug. 13, at the Netroots Nation conference for progressive bloggers, journalists, and activists, I was part of a panel called “A Warming Web: The Blogosphere and Climate Change.” Also present: Kevin Grandia of DeSmogBlog Brentin Mock of The American Prospect (and elsewhere) Brad Johnson of Think Progress Kate Sheppard of pure awesomeness Tim Lange, […]
