Like a Rock
In the early 1970s, when Congress was pushing for fuel-efficiency standards as a response to the oil crisis, scaremongering on this issue fell to auto executives. A Chrysler vice president told...
View ArticleExxon Ain't Cryin' Yet
This afternoon, the Obama administration rejected an application from transmission company TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport carbon-rich oil from Canada’s tar sands,...
View ArticleRoad to Nowhere
The best place in the country to appreciate the marvels of our interstate highway system is heading west out of Denver on I-70 in Colorado. The road climbs and dips at a steep grade, taking cars across...
View ArticleJudges Take On Climate Skeptics
Three of the D.C. Court of Appeals’ judges delivered climate-regulation opponents what can only be termed a righteous smackdown last week. Their opinion on the Environmental Protection Agency’s work to...
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Giving Local Food the Raspberry
(Flickr / Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)The sustainable-food movement has finally been around long enough to face its first cold front. Pickled okra, critics want the world to know, is not...
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Keystone XL’s Beetlemania
(AP Photo/St. Louis Zoo)The carcass of a passenger pigeon weighed in at exactly the size they preferred. Dead prairie chickens did, too. They aren’t so picky about the carcasses they bury: mammals will...
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Corn, Corn Everywhere, But Not a Bite to Eat
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)President Barack Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, right, inspect drought damaged corn on the McIntosh farm with members of the McIntosh family including Don...
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Let's Talk about Climate, Mr. President
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Drought-stricken corn crops bake in the sun as temperatures continue to hover around 100 degrees Monday, July 25, 2011, in Tomball, Texas. Very little rain has fallen across...
View ArticleFrankenclimate
This time, the preparations are a little more familiar. We would have had a few gallons of bottled water left over from Irene, but we’d moved and left them behind. Last time, we bought canned stew...
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Weather Underground
(Flickr/Marco Derksen)In New York City, subway service started back up yesterday after Hurricane Sandy flooded seven East River subway tunnels and sent the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)...
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Fracking versus the Boondocks
AP Photo/David Zalubowski, FileIn this April 22, 2008 file photo, a natural gas well pad sits in front of the Roan Plateau near the Colorado mountain community of Rifle. Opponents of a law restricting...
View ArticleIt's Worse than the Status Quo
In the midst of dealing with the fiscal cliff, Congress passed a one-year extension of the farm bill that eliminated funding for almost every even vaguely innovative agriculture policy and kept in...
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Keystone XL: A Year in Review
Flickr/M.V. JantzenIt’s been just over a year since the Obama administration rejected TransCanada’s original permit application for Keystone XL. On the surface, it might seem like nothing much has...
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The Keystone Fight's Labor Pains
AP Photo/Nati Harnik“For too long we have allowed some corporations to hold a gun to our heads and demand that we choose jobs or choose the earth.” That’s what Terry O’Sullivan, the general president...
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I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Keystone
AP Photo/Elise AmendolaIt’s rare for environmental organizations to lead outside spending in an election. Even the largest don't have that much cash to burn. But in last month's Senate primary in...
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Slow and Steady Wins the Anti-Keystone XL Race
Flickr/ Elizabeth BrossaGrace Cagle knew what Keystone XL’s path through Texas meant for the state’s environment. The pipeline was going to run through the post-oak savannah, a type of forest that's...
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Attack of the Giant Grass!
AP Photo/Allen BreedArundo donax towers over the tallest man's head. It's thick, bamboo-like, and three-stories tall. It can withstand cold, and it can withstand drought. Give it water, and a little...
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The Year in Preview: The EPA Levels Up
AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteProtesters ask President Obama to deny granting permission for TransCanada to build the 1,700-mile long pipeline gathered at the White House in August.Proposals that make it...
View ArticleLike a Rock
In the early 1970s, when Congress was pushing for fuel-efficiency standards as a response to the oil crisis, scaremongering on this issue fell to auto executives. A Chrysler vice president told...
View ArticleExxon Ain't Cryin' Yet
This afternoon, the Obama administration rejected an application from transmission company TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport carbon-rich oil from Canada’s tar sands,...
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