Environment

New Poll: VA Voters Strongly Moving to Clean Energy, Away from Coal

lowkell for Blue Virginia
November 12, 2012 - 12:10pm
Over at Scaling Green, I posted yesterday about a series of new polls by Public Opinion Strategies which find that "despite the millions of dollars opponents poured into attacks on the [clean energy] industry," voters in key swing states - including Virginia - "support clean, secure, and affordable energy."
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lowkell
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Blue Virginia

Arch Coal Mine Will Destroy Colorado Wilderness in 'Roadless' Forest

Farron Cousins for DeSmogBlog
November 12, 2012 - 10:30am
In a devastating blow to the Colorado wilderness, the U.S. Forest Service has agreed to allow Arch Coal to expand their West Elk mine into 6.5 miles of roadless forest in Colorado. 
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Farron Cousins
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DeSmogBlog

Bill McKibben Kicks Off 350.org Do The Math Tour In Seattle

Brendan DeMelle for DeSmogBlog
November 9, 2012 - 8:40am
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Seattle kickoff of 350.org's Do The Math tour, which will highlight the imperative for action to keep 80 percent of the fossil fuel industries' tar sands, coal, oil and gas reserves in the ground, or the climate is toast.
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Brendan DeMelle
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DeSmogBlog

Rush Limbaugh Laughs in the Face of Climate Change, Hurricane Sandy

Sam Seder for The Majority Report
November 2, 2012 - 8:20am
As many deal with the destruction Hurricane Sandy left behind, Rush Limbaugh has a good laugh at the "hoax" that is Climate Change. Remember, Rush Limbaugh is one of the main people Republicans and the right wing listen to when developing their outlooks, policies, and more.
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Sam Seder
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The Majority Report

Sandy: How to Help NOW...

DocJess for Philadelphia Jewish Voice
October 30, 2012 - 2:03pm
I heard Gen Honoree (ret), who was the Army general who led the team into New Orleans after "heckuva job Brownie" and crew failed, speak yesterday. He said that neighbors will save more lives than first responders. His point: as daylight breaks today, first responders will be out looking to assess damage, get infrastructure fixed, get the power back on...but if you are okay, and it is safe for you to be outside, check on your neighbors, especially the elderly. They may need help that you can provide: if they fell in the dark in their homes, for example. Further, this is the end of the month...
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DocJess
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Philadelphia Jewish Voice

Financed Emissions: A Big Problem for Banks, and a Bigger Problem for the Climate

Ben Collins for The Understory
October 30, 2012 - 2:03pm
What is the total greenhouse gas footprint of Citigroup, Bank of America, or UBS? Right now, we don’t know, and that’s a major problem for both banks and the climate.
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Ben Collins
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The Understory

Alert Issued at Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Facility in NJ

deciminyan for Blue Jersey
October 30, 2012 - 8:40am
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a flood-related alert for the Oyster Creek Plant in Lacey Township. From their press release:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continuing to monitor impacts from Hurricane Sandy on nuclear power plants in the Northeastern United States, including an Alert declared at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey. The plant, currently in a regularly scheduled outage, declared the Alert at approximately 8:45 p.m. EDT due to water exceeding certain high water level criteria in the plant's water intake structure.
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deciminyan
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Blue Jersey

Conference Board of Canada: Economic Benefits of Tar Sands Hinge On Climate Inaction

Carol Linnitt for DeSmogBlog
October 29, 2012 - 4:03pm
By 2035 operators in Alberta's tar sands expect to produce 5 million barrels of the world's most environmentally dirty and energy intensive oil per day. Current daily production hovers around 2 million barrels. According to a recent Conference Board of Canada report, projected expansion of the tar sands will require roughly $364 billion in investment over the next 25 years and will create significant economic benefits for both Canada and the US..
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Carol Linnitt
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DeSmogBlog

Global Insurers Call BS On Climate Deniers

DSWright for Blue Jersey
October 29, 2012 - 3:03pm
I live in South Jersey, so yeah, Sandy is about to make my life uh interesting.
So before the power/interweb goes out let me reiterate a point that is not made often enough in the climate change debate - Big Business is not united in their denialism.
One sector that is particularly immune to fossil fuel propaganda is the global insurance and reinsurance industry - because unlike consumers or politicians they are on the hook when the reality of Climate Change strikes.
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DSWright
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Blue Jersey

North America Behind The Curve On Climate Change and Energy

Farron Cousins for DeSmogBlog
October 29, 2012 - 9:30am
Just three short years ago, it appeared that North America was on the verge of finally kicking that nasty dirty energy addiction that was crippling our economies and our energy independence.  The United States had elected a president (Barack Obama) who set incredibly lofty goals for renewable energy targets, and green energy investments across the continent were higher than anywhere else in the world.
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Farron Cousins
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DeSmogBlog

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