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  • Jon Stewart slams BP, oil-defending politicians, more usual suspects

    Our customer research department tell us that some of you enjoy humorous video, watchdog journalism, holding politicians accountable, and biting media criticism. If that’s the case, we think you should know about this guy Jon Stewart: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Beyond Awful www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes […]

    Jonathan Hiskes Technology

  • A teachable moment

    The Cape Wind project just approved for the waters offshore of Massachusetts will pump $1 billion into the local economy and create clean, reliable wind energy for decades. The BP oil rig in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico is spewing millions of gallons of petroleum toward the coastlines of four states, incurring $6 […]

    Terry Tamminen Technology

  • Burning oil sends heavy vapor toward Gulf residents

    The EPA is warning that Gulf Coast residents are at risk of headaches, nausea, and other ill health effects; the culprit is air pollution from the oil burns that response teams are conducting to try to keep the big slick away from coastlines. “The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf could cause an odor similar […]

    Jonathan Hiskes Technology

  • Wake up, Obama. The Gulf spill is our big chance

    President Barack Obama so far has said nothing about the screamingly obvious connection between the spoils of fossil-fuel dependency and the vision of a clean-energy economy that he’s been sporadically promoting. Instead he had this tepid statement on the Gulf oil spill Friday morning: “I continue to believe that domestic oil production is an important […]

    Jonathan Hiskes Technology

  • Oil rig disaster could soon be worse than Exxon Valdez

    Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Cross-posted from Wonk Room. The catastrophic gusher of oil unleashed by the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig last week is on track to quickly exceed the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, an independent expert warns. An explosive burst of oil destroyed the exploratory rig 41 miles off the Louisiana coast on […]

    Brad Johnson Technology

  • The worst week ever, brought to you by the fossil-fuel industry

    It’s a week to remember — or better yet, forget.  Who could have imagined such a confluence of terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad events, rounding up what has to be the most disheartening “Earth Month” ever?  In what may soon be the worst oil spill in U.S. history, crude is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico […]

    Jonathan Hiskes Technology

  • Take note, companies: Young workers want urban jobs

    Downtown ChicagoPhoto: Chicago Man via FlickrBusinesses ought to consider locating in walkable, culturally diverse city centers because that’s where young workers want to be, according to some liberal commie rag printed on recycled draft cards. No, scratch that, this argument comes from the Harvard Business Review. An article in the May issue opens with the […]

    Jonathan Hiskes Technology

  • Cape Wind decision may take green power national

    Offshore wind turbinePhoto courtesy phault via FlickrWhen Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced federal approval of the Cape Wind project on Wednesday, the media coverage tended to focus on the denouement of a nearly decade-long battle over the United States’ first offshore wind farm. And indeed, our East Coast cousins put Californians to shame when it […]

    Todd Woody Technology

  • The story of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill [PHOTOS]

    Photo: Transocean The Deepwater Horizon oil rig, owned by the Houston company Transocean, drilled the deepest oil well in history (35,050 feet) in September 2009 in the Gulf of Mexico. In January, the rig moved to a British Petroleum project 120 miles southeast of New Orleans.

    Grist staff Technology

  • Peabody Energy exec misleads during coal debate

    Last night I debated the role of coal in our country’s energy future with Peabody Energy VP of Government Relations Fred Palmer on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The debate took place in front of more than 500 students and community members at Graham Chapel on campus, and was watched live online […]

    Bruce Nilles Technology