South Dakota
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ACLU sues South Dakota over new pipeline protester law
Even if you don’t live in South Dakota, you could be held liable for encouraging pipeline protesters there, according to a newly signed state bill.
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Severe flooding at Pine Ridge Reservation ‘a humanitarian disaster’
While flood recovery is underway in other parts of the Midwest, South Dakota's Oglala Sioux Tribe is still treading water.
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‘Flash drought’ could devastate half the High Plains wheat harvest
Get ready for more dry disasters that appear out of nowhere.
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Will other states follow Nebraska’s lead in fighting Keystone XL?
Nebraskan protesters outside the state capitol.Photo: Mitch PaineThe Keystone XL pipeline will cross six states: Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Opposition has been fiercest in Nebraska, whether because of a desire to protect the Ogallala Aquifer and Sand Hills or because of tremendous organizing by Jane Kleeb and Bold Nebraska (or both). Gov. Dave […]
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Critical List: Climate change is happening (no, really!); the gas industry has some weird ideas
A Berkeley scientist who was once critical of climate science did an independent study that confirmed that climate change is happening and that common claims from skeptics are totally spurious. Skeptics are still skeptical.
Three-quarters of Americans think that the government should push harder on developing clean energy.
Shocker: The government also invested in electric cars and some of them were not perfect, i.e., THIS IS THE NEXT SOLYNDRA.
Natural gas companies don't understand why the EPA would want to make rules about fracking wastewater disposal: "We'll do it in a responsible way! Well, at least, we do now, after the New York Times revealed that we've just been dumping it into a river! But we'll do better! Honest!"
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Kangaroo bikes and Bambi killers: Meet the cyclists of ‘Outdoorsia’
On the South Dakota fringe, Elly Blue discovers a mutant bike culture and a new way to bring home the, uh, bacon.
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Stupid goes viral: Climate Zombies of Kansas, Nevada, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Tennessee
A look at five states turns up one Republican who worries about his carbon footprint and a second who's acknowledged climate science in the past.
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South Dakota governor's race: Heidepriem vs. Daugaard
Tell us what you know about the governor's race in South Dakota. What's at stake? What are candidates saying about green issues?
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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 […]