Tag: News
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Obama’s New Special Adviser Is Outspoken Critic of Keystone XL
By John H. Cushman, Jr. By asking John Podesta to come to the White House as a special counselor at a time of turmoil and tough choices, President Obama has created an unusually close tie to an outspoken critic of the Keystone XL pipeline and the Canadian tar sands it would carry. Podesta is a…
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Motech Panels Used at New Maryland Solar Project
Delaware’s Motech Americas LLC, a subsidiary of Motech Industries Inc., today announced that 1,430 of its U.S.-manufactured 300-Watt solar panels, being installed at a leading Landover, Md., baking facility, are contributing to the annual elimination of 869,000 lbs of CO2 […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Fracking Bonanza Threatens Texas Suburbs
By Julie Dermansky When a representative from Chesapeake Energy knocked on Phyllis Allen’s door in 2003 and offered $300 for her mineral rights and an invitation to a lease-signing pizza party, she turned them down. [caption id="attachment_314914" align="alignnone" width="500"] Phyllis Allen in front of a compressor station near her home. The first major city in…
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Japan’s New ‘Fukushima Fascism’
Fukushima continues to spew out radiation. The quantities seem to be rising, as do the impacts. The site has been infiltrated by organized crime. There are horrifying signs of ecological disaster in the Pacific and human health impacts in the U.S. But within Japan, a new State Secrets Act makes such talk punishable by up to ten years…
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Rising Sea Levels Threaten 233 Endangered Species
Sea-level rise driven by climate change poses a deadly threat to 233 federally protected animal and plant species in 23 coastal states, according to a new scientific report from the Center for Biological Diversity, and U.S. wildlife protection agencies are not doing enough to protect at-risk species. In a letter to the two wildlife agencies,…