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Celebrating John Muir's Birthday in the North Country
Today is the 173rd birthday of John Muir. Muir was the co-founder and first president of the Sierra Club and a steadfast advocate for the protection of wilderness. His essays […]
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Not So Starry-Eyed Anymore
Oh why can’t you see It’s my life that’s at stake When you sell out our world You are stealing my future. Can you look in my eyes As you […]
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One Year After BP Oil Spill: Communities Lead While Congress Fails
An urban garden in New Orleans.One year ago today, British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling unit exploded in the Gulf of Mexico — a catastrophe that most Americans will never […]
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Silver Buckshot
Wars in the Middle East and oil rig blowouts in the Gulf have given us gasoline in the range of $4 to $5/gallon. Growing concerns over asthma-inducing pollution from coal […]
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Obama hosts Facebook town hall, because what could go wrong when you combine politics and Facebook?
Listen up, Facebook nation: Obama would like you to stop friending and unfriending each other for a second and pay attention. He's hosting a Facebook town hall today at 4:45 Eastern, in order to, you know, get down verbally with the youth. The subject is "Shared Responsibility and Shared Prosperity," which sounds like a great excuse to bring up questions about energy policy, sustainability, and the environment.
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This Earth Week: Taking America Back From the Polluters
Last weekend, I was proud to join the likes of former Vice President Al Gore and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson as a keynote speaker at Power Shift 2011. There was […]
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Congress Passes a Budget That Doesn't Invest Enought in International Efforts to Curb Global Warming
The long drama of whether or not the US Congress would invest in international efforts to curb global warming pollution or gut these investments is finally over – at least […]
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Confessions of an international climate advocate at Powershift
I’ve just walked away from thousands of students who have taken to the streets of DC to tell the White House, dirty energy polluters, and Congress that they won’t rest […]
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Coal Ash Continues to Poison Americans
This week, some of them traveled to Washington to tell their stories Mike Eslinger lives near a coal ash waste dump in Sullivan, Indiana. On some days the wind gets […]
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Major victory for clean air
Earlier today the Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) voted to approve a settlement that provides for the single largest coal retirement announcement in the nation’s history. The settlement […]
