Tag: Insights
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Why Big Coal Operates in Constant State of Violation
The dirty secret in President Obama’s “all-of-the-above” energy policy was quietly overlooked in his State of the Union address. Three weeks after global media attention on the West Virginia coal-chemical disaster, the most important line of information still remains buried in an AP report: … [A] review of federal environmental enforcement records shows that nearly three-quarters of the…
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Breaking: Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill Pollutes River and Threatens Drinking Water
Yesterday afternoon, Duke Energy reported that it spilled between 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River near Eden, NC. To put the volume in perspective, the spill is the equivalent of 413 to 677 rail cars of wet coal ash poured into a public drinking water source. The spill is located…
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Robert Redford: Tar Sands Pipeline is a Bad Idea, Fails President’s Climate Test
The more people learn about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the less they like it. Despite what we might be hearing in industry spin, the environmental report released by the State Department Friday confirms that tar sands crude means a dirtier, more dangerous future for our children all so that the oil industry can reach the…
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Fast Tracking TPP Would Mean More Corporate Control of Our Democracy
Do you care about having access to local and sustainably produced food or protecting your drinking water? Are you concerned about corporate influence distorting our elections? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you should be worried about legislation Senator Max Baucus and Rep. Dave Camp recently introduced that would grant the Obama…
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50 Reasons Why We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima
[This is the first in a two part series] Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets…