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Senate gives a big, fat thumbs-up to Keystone XL
The vote was non-binding but all too telling. On Friday, the Senate voted 62 to 37 in favor of building the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline.
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“The Era of Coal is Over”: Los Angeles Will Move Beyond Coal by 2025
Today, after a three-year campaign by tens of thousands across the city, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined our L.A. Beyond Coal activists to publicly announce this blockbuster news: […]
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Environmentalists and gas companies sing Kumbaya, create voluntary fracking standards
The new, oxymoronically named Center for Sustainable Shale Development will certify gas companies that meet stricter environmental standards.
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State Dept. hid contractor’s ties to Keystone XL pipeline company
A top expert who helped write the government's latest Keystone report previously consulted on three different TransCanada projects -- a fact the State Department tried to hide.
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Beyond widgets: Envisioning a real transportation revolution
A recent report showed how much carbon can be cut through changes in vehicles. But changes in transportation systems go well beyond vehicles.
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Celebrating a Huge Offshore Wind Victory in Maryland
The winds of change brought some great progress to Maryland this week when the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013 passed through both houses of the legislature. The offshore […]
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Massive Louisiana sinkhole just keeps on growing
A sinkhole that was triggered in August by salt mining for the oil and gas sector has grown to 12 acres, threatening 150 homes.
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Two Ways Americans May Get More Ownership of their Energy Future
Three years ago, the prospects for Americans to own their energy future seemed relatively bleak. There were almost no replicable models for doing community-based energy projects or investment, despite falling […]
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Major Scientific Group Drops Tar Sands Research
(Re-published with permission from DeSmog Canada) The Helmholtz Association of Research Centres, a major German scientific body with more than 30,000 researchers and US$4.4 billion in annual funding, has dropped out of […]
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Two reasons climate change is not like other environmental problems
Commentators often think about climate change as an "environmental problem," but it's very different from traditional environmental problems, in two important ways.
