Sorry to go literary on you. I believe the term is poetic justice. I recently suggested giving every Clean Coal Congress critter a pail and sand shovel, a one-way ticket to Roane County and no health coverage, and elsewhere commented on what a mockery our “elected” representatives were m...

It was a cold day in Washington, D.C. and Bill McKibben was there. The prospect of catastrophe was quite real, and the window of opportunity to avoid such catastrophe closing rapidly. Those prospects remain the day after civil disobedience at Kapitol Koal. Such prospects have been anticipateed by ma...

For a clean, safe, energy future Thomas R. Blakeslee of the Clearlight Foundation repeats a recent chant made famous by the GOP (Grand Overspending Party): “Drill, Baby, “Drill. However, this is the Californian, not Alaskan, version, so get back you Forces of Darkness. He recommends that...

O.K., Bush / Cheney and their cronies didn’t sell out America just for the oil in Iraq. The oil has to be converted to currency, so much better just to get the money by fraud, eh? Writing for The Independent (yes, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, you wouldn’t expect to read such news in Am...

amazngdrx opines that “cap and trade needs to die, but it probably won’t.” When Democrats have a majority then they impose a cap. As soon as the Repugnants could win a few seats back, then the cap would be lifted. Lots of politics, but little progress toward lowering the increasing...

CHERNOBYL ZOMBIES As this blog recently noted, further development of nuclear energy would seem to be in direct conflict with one prong of the three prong strategy of the economic stimulus package. At the widely popular, Climate Progress blog, Joseph Romm 1 has made a similar, and terse observation:...

Writing for The Charleston Gazette, Ken Ward Jr. reminds us that, just a few short breaths months ago, ‘our’ Congress critters included a $2.8 billion package for the coal industry when the massive Wall Street bailout was passed. “And now?” “Coal company officials and t...

Wonk Room reports that incoming Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson issued a memorandum to all EPA staff that stated, “I will uphold the values of scientific integrity, rule of law and transparency every day.â€� In his WR post Brad Johnson shows how the new director’s ...

amazngdrx always has opposed geothermal “because it injects fresh water into underground rock faults and uses the resulting steam, losing most of the water in the process.” Furthermore, there is the “possibility of contaminating aquifers with mineral bearing sulphate rock leechate ...

29 December 2008Michelle and Barack ObamaChicago and Washington, D.C.United States of America Dear Michelle and Barack, We write to you as fellow parents concerned about the Earth that will be inherited by our children, grandchildren, and those yet to be born. Barack has spoken of ‘a planet in...