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Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Ted Turner - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - The purpose of Keystone XL is to bring tar sands crude oil through the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. The route through the United States is actually the oil industry's second choice: Transporting the oil west from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would be shorter and much cheaper, but Canadians concerned about environmental impacts and threats to native people's lands are challenging that route, and with good reason. The existing and potential environmental impacts along the 2,000-mile pipeline route are profound.

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If we need taxes, why not pollution taxes?

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Brad Plumer - Jun. 02 (Opinion) - After all, if we have to raise revenue, we may as well slap higher taxes on behavior we'd like to discourage (like pollution and congestion) rather than, say, labor, no?

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Like oil and water in the gulf

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Sarah Stephens - Mar. 14 (Opinion) - As Cuba explores for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. embargo could hurt both countries. Cooperation and engagement, however, could benefit American firms and protect the environment.

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Global Cooling and the New World Order – Telegraph Blogs

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - Bilderberg. Whether you believe it's part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world government or whether you think it's just an innocent high-level talking shop, there's one thing that can't be denied: it knows which way the wind is blowing.

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The Wilting Climate Change Debate

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Bradford Plumer - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - If you spend enough time listening to climate deniers speak, you start to recognize certain tropes and tics that crop up again and again.

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China's green gift to the world

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Frank Wolak, Richard Morse - Dec. 30 (Opinion) - Environmentalists who want to ban China's coal imports are 100% wrong: driving up the price of coal cuts carbon emissions.

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Fighting the battle of Blair Mountain

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Beth Wellington - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - The struggle to conserve from stripmining the historic site of a labour struggle in West Virginia could not be more symbolic. Last week, with Massey Energy under siege from federal safety officials , yet still proposing to stripmine the site of the Battle of Blair Mountain , I recalled standing on battlefields at Gettysburg and Manassas, haunted as the landscape somehow revealed what had once happened there.

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Review: Chevy Volt — electrifying

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter - Oct. 21 (Review) - GM has succeeded in making an outside-the-box electric vehicle that's alluring almost any way you look at it, including under the hood.

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Deepwater drilling: risks and consequences

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Beth Wellington - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - What if, as in Hungary's red sludge disaster, oil executives faced possible prosecution for spills that result in loss of life?

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The carbon dioxide precipice

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By James C. Stewart - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - It is time for more of us to step forward. By "us" I mean the growing number of thoughtful Americans who have recognized the threat of global warming but have tried not to worry about it too much or get involved.

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44 - Rachel Maddow gives fake Obama oil speech, lunches with Obama

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Garance Franke-Ruta - Jun. 18 (Dramatization) - A day after Rachel Maddow went on the air to give the speech she said President Obama should have given Tuesday about the Gulf oil spill, the MSNBC host sat down with the president for lunch at the White House along with a handful of other members of the press.

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New HBO documentary exposes gas drilling hazards

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Michael Rubinkam - Jun. 17 (Review) - What do you do when a gas company offers nearly $100,000 for the right to drill on your land? If you're Josh Fox, you refuse the money – then make an award-winning documentary portraying the natural gas industry as an environmental menace that ruins water, air and lives.

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An Old Nuclear Problem Creeps Back

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Jun. 12 (Opinion) - The American nuclear industry, primed to begin new construction projects for the first time in 30 years, is about as eager for an operating problem at an old reactor as the oil industry was for a well blowout on the eve of opening the Atlantic coast to oil drilling. Nonetheless, a nuclear reactor where a hidden leak caused near-catastrophic corrosion in 2002 has experienced a second bout of the same problem.

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Europe Energized

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Hill - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - The average European today emits half the carbon of an average American and uses far less electricity. It takes 40 percent more fuel for an American car to drive a mile than a European car. Europe overall has managed to reduce its ecological footprint to half that of the United States for the same standard of living. How has Europe managed this? Through smart, strategic government policy, working closely with the private sector, to advance incentives and regulations that encourage the necessary behavior from consumers, households and businesses. While the U.S. has resorted to ill-fated strategies to secure more oil — including recent calls for more offshore drilling — the European landscape has been slowly transformed. Picture windmills, tidal turbines and solar panels on rooftops dotting the European landscape, and vast solar arrays with tens of thousands of panels that have tracking technology to follow the sun.

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Imagining the Worst in BP’s Future

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Andrew Ross Sorkin - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - With shares of BP plunging since the Deepwater Horizon accident, many are speculating about the company’s options.

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Disaster in the Amazon

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bob Herbert - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - “As horrible as the gulf spill has been, what happened in the Amazon was worse,” said Jonathan Abady, a New York lawyer who is part of the legal team that is suing Chevron on behalf of the rainforest inhabitants. It has been a long and ugly legal

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Preserve EPA’s right to regulate

Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - May. 23 (Editorial) - IF US SENATOR Scott Brown is at all concerned about global warming, he should firmly oppose an effort by fellow Republican Lisa Murkowski to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gases.

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More than an oil spill

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By James William Gibson - May. 11 (Opinion) - We may well be living with the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill for the rest of the 21st century. But judging by past environmental disasters, the spill also has the potential to reinvigorate the environmental movement going forward. For more than a century, ecological crises have often strengthened environmental movements.

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Audio slideshow: Photographer Daniel Beltra on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Interview, editing, Eric Hilaire - May. 07 (Interview) - Shots and a commentary on the disaster by the 2009 Prince's Rainforest Project award-winning photographer, who is covering the oil spill for Greenpeace Your IP address will be logged If you need help using the site: userhelp@guardian.co.uk Call

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Plastic Bag

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

PBS - By Ramin Bahrani - Apr. 23 (Entertainment) - A discarded plastic bag ventures through a barren America looking for its maker. This short film is part of the FutureStates series, which forecasts future events and predictions.

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What on Earth? The concerned citizen's guide to global warming

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By David Randall - Dec. 09 (Opinion) - Few of us are environment specialists, least of all me. I'm what most of us probably are on the eve of Copenhagen: a concerned citizen with only passing lay knowledge, who's getting more confused by the day. After all, the past few weeks have brought the inevitable pre-climate-conference rash of reports, dismal forecasts and counter-claims from the warming sceptics, not to mention the leaking of worrying emails from this country's leading climate experts.

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The EPA's long-overdue climate change ruling

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - Dec. 08 (Editorial) - The Environmental Protection Agency released a historic finding Monday that greenhouse gases are endangering public health and welfare. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), an outspoken critic of the theory of climate change and of congressional attempts to cut carbon, responded by issuing a statement headlined, "Why the Rush? What's to Hide?" We have a different question for the EPA: Why has it taken so long?

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'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Dec. 07 (Editorial) - Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency. Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and half-hearted.

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Alberta's Tar Sands Make Canada a Climate Criminal

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By George Monbiot - Dec. 01 (Opinion) - The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the only obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world's peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country's government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee's tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto. So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man.

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Misconceptions plague debate over gas line proposals

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Jul. 01 (Editorial) - Exxon's decision to join forces with TransCanada has spurred a new round of debate over the best way to make sure Alaska gets a North Slope gas line. In that debate, some misconceptions are floating around and should be corrected.

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