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Canada Withdraws From Kyoto & Continues Developing Tar Sands

December 21, 2011 by Jake Schmidt
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Literally one day after the global warming negotiations ended in Durban, South Africa the government of Canada formally notified the world that they were withdrawing from the global warming pollution targets they had taken on under the Kyoto Protocol.  Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent must have signed the formal withdrawal... [read more]

Bush Admin. Secret Nuclear Waste Contracts

March 24, 2010 by Osha Davidson
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Bush Contract Signed Two Days After Obama Was Sworn In In its final days, and with no fanfare, the Bush Administration signed 21 contracts with nuclear power companies promising to store high level radioactive waste from plants that had not yet been built, even though no federal repository for such waste exists, according to documents... [read more]

Science through a Political Screen

October 17, 2009 by Jonathan Smith
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Readers of After Gutenberg (Thanks, Mom) may recall Dr. Francesca Grifo testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Dr. Grifo testified that information from more than 120 scientists had been suppressed. “Such suppression of the public service performed by government scientists,” observed one environmental... [read more]

Setting a leadership path: Obama Executive Order on Federal Energy

October 5, 2009 by A Siegel
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Somewhat hidden to most Americans (on purpose), the Bush Administration’s Executive Order 13423 was perhaps the best energy-related action taken by George W Bush. It set meaningful energy efficiency targets and created paths for more effective energy management across the federal government. Today, President Barack Obama signed an... [read more]

Subsidizing filth to employ foreigners rather than cleanliness to employ Americans

September 18, 2009 by A Siegel
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That title provides a reasonable summation of Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008, a report released today by the Environmental Law Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars looking at U.S. subsidies for energy, the relationship of fossil fuel to renewable energy subsidies, and how... [read more]

Green Consumers' Irrational Exuberance

February 23, 2009 by JoelMakower
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What is it with pollsters and green consumers? Why do nearly all of the surveys seem so gushingly optimistic, even during pessimistic times? That's a question that's been nagging me the past few weeks.I typically wait until near Earth Day in April to digest the current wave of surveys about green consumers in the U.S. (see here and here... [read more]

The EPA’s Tailspin

March 11, 2008 by Joseph Romm
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Nature, one of the most respected journals of Science, has an editorial on the U.S. EPA. It begins, The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is fast losing the few shreds of credibility it has left. The Bush administration has always shown more zeal in protecting business interests than the environment. But the agency’s current... [read more]