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The Institute for Southern Studies provides consistently top flight reporting in its online journal, Facing South, related, to among other things, energy practices in the south that create significant questions of environmental justice and polluting energy practices that threaten the health of all Southerners (actually, all Americans). As the nation’s attention (okay, not enough of […]

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In September 2009, an environmental investigator submitted a 60-page report on the risks of deepwater drilling as a public comment to the federal government’s proposed rule for oil and gas leasing between 2010 and 2015 on the outer continental shelf. Addressed to the chief of the Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) leasing division, this memorandum highlighted […]

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To make it quite clear: the implication has nothing to do with the cause. the implication is that we are faced with an unexpected crisis that reveals a much ignored problem, and which can, if responded to the way it should be, change the nation and the world- for the better. The explosion of Deepwater […]

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Among the latest front, yet another (strong) piece of evidence of the cascading impacts of climate change on eco-systems around the world and the global eco-system’s ability to sustain modern human civilization, scientists have laid out how Lake Tanganyika is heating at an unprecedented rate (at least of 1500 years of scientific analysis) and that […]

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This guest post from WarrenS provides a template for the commendable work that he has been doing to seek to illuminate climate and energy issues for newspaper readers across the country. One of the things, by the way, that WarrenS doesn’t mention is that his pieces fall into a context: even if he is not […]

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As any who regularly read my work should be aware, I have a fascination with the power of feedback systems to foster behavioral change (and here and …) and help foster more Energy Smart practices and to hasten the adoption of Energy Smart/Energy COOL technologies. This guest post by Milly Watt (which, in this context, […]

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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action. If we reduce our oil consumption by 5% a year over each of the next twenty years, that allows use to be free of our oil addiction if we […]

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The obliviousness about humanity’s impact on weather patterns due to climate change continues for all too many in the media. The Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz provides today’s example.  Kurtz reports on the near media blackout when it comes to the recent (massive) Nashville floods.  Kurtz, just like the Post’s reprinting of the weak AP coverage, […]

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A guest post from Mark Louis re alternative energy … This was a pretty big week in energy news.  First, Senators John Kerry & Joe Lieberman introduce the American Power Act(greatest name ever).  Then, to help drive home the need for a comprehensive energy bill, the EPA announced new regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, reminding […]

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Not-In-My-Back-Yard!!!   This is perhaps one of the most natural of human reactions. Sludge plant? I might poop but don’t put that upwind of me. Oil Refinery? I’ll drive as much as I want but don’t let that cancer-causing behemoth ruin my view or threaten my kids’ health. A hospital in the neighborhood? Sure, save my […]

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