Obama loves fracking
A friend of mine recently hosted a home screening of the documentary Gasland 2 by Josh Fox. The film exposes the environmental and health dangers of “fracking,” a technology used to extract...
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Vermont leads by example on environmental issues
In a recent e-newsletter, Senator Bernie Sanders shared a video about a little town in Vermont called Swanton. Swanton has recently made an important change to its water treatment plant that will save...
View ArticleTime to reconsider daylight saving time?
After “falling back” an hour over the past weekend, we’re all blearily adjusting to the time shift imposed on us by the end of daylight saving time. The pros and cons of artificially manipulating time...
View ArticleWhy corporations blackmail government–because they can
If Boeing wants to build the 777X jetliner in the state of Missouri, the state will have to shell out $1.7 trillion, and St. Louis County possibly a similar amount. Why does Boeing ask for so much?...
View ArticleThe old GOP folks at home: Light-bulb wars
After Mitt Romney’s humiliating defeat in 2012, many pundits explicitly or implicitly agreed with bloger Ted Frier who wrote that the GOP had deteriorated into a party of ” elderly conservative whites...
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Spanish island is about to be fully powered by solar and wind
Big ideas sometimes start small, and that’s exactly what’s happening on El Hierro, the smallest and southernmost of the Canary Islands. El Hierro, with a population of 10,000 is about to go live with a...
View ArticleGive her a break. It’s not easy to run for office in coal country
As a supporter of environmental protection, I think that, in the macro sense, we can place strict environmental regulations on our energy companies and also create new jobs. We can move away from coal...
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Al Gore’s good news (for a change) on climate and renewable energy
Eight years ago. Al Gore released “An Inconvenient Truth,” the book and documentary film that laid out the scientific consensus connecting the burning of fossil fuels to climate change. At the time,...
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We’ve adjusted to the new normal, and that’s unfortunate
Don Corrigan, newspaper editor, author and college professor, taught us something new at the Missouri Progressive Action Group meeting on Saturday. In addition to being an entertaining speaker, he...
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Health risks demand a moratorium on fracking
Fracking in New York State. [2014, Les Stone]A rapidly growing body of research demonstrates that hydraulic fracturing poses dangers not only to the environment but to people’s health. Once...
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Claire McCaskill’s doomed love affair with Keystone XL
Today Claire McCaskill did it. She voted with all Senate Republicans and nine Senate Democrats to pass the House’s Keystone XL authorization. Of course, nine Democrats won’t be enough to override a...
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Keystone pipeline vote: corporate money trumps public good
The fossil-fuel industry is reaping the rewards of its three-quarters of a billion dollar investment to secure a Republican controlled congress. But they weren’t just buying Republicans—in a spirit of...
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STL landfill fire nears collision with radioactive waste: What’s next?
Westlake Landfill, St. Louis MO What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump? St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In North St. Louis County, near...
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Teaching the reality of climate change, one classroom at a time
You wouldn’t think that it would be controversial for a journalism professor to come to high schools in the Midwest to discuss his reporting on current issues in science. And it wasn’t. Justin...
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Rex Tillerson: What does he really think about climate change? Who knows?
Share/BookmarkDonald Trump’s pick of Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State sends a chilling message about the new administration’s commitment to addressing the challenges of a warming planet. Who is Rex...
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“A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists”
Share/BookmarkAt the annual gathering of The American Geophysical Union in fall of 2016, more than twenty-three thousand earth and space scientists from around the globe met to present their research...
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Tracking Trump’s regulatory rollbacks: so far, so bad
While Donald Trump distracts us with bellicose pronouncements and internecine White House wars, his henchmen in regulatory agencies are methodically rolling back decades of progress. Much of the damage...
View ArticleNew York says no to Trump’s offshore drilling expansion
New York State has approximately 2,625 miles of coastline. There are, of course, a myriad of reasons for protecting the state’s coastline. Beyond the coastline’s beauty and its role as an irreplaceable...
View Article3,500 economists call for carbon tax/carbon dividend. America isn’t listening.
Here’s a riddle. How many economists does it take to sound the alarm on the need for immediate action to address global climate change? If you guessed 3,558, you’d be on the money. That’s the total...
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