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Obama, Be My Valentine: "No Keystone XL!" [PHOTOS]
Some holidays are political. The 4th of July. Presidents' Day. Even Christmas, at least to hear Bill O'Reilly tell it. But Valentine's Day?Well, for Barack Obama and John Kerry, Valentine's Day just...
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Kerry/Keystone/Us
On this President's Day let's help him out! . I just read the entire speech that Secretary of State Kerry delivered in Indonesia. It is posted here and I highly recommend reading it in it's...
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Is Stupidity Winning the Climate Change Argument?
Some recent comments by Charles Krauthammer and Ted Cruz got me thinking about stupidity and climate change. Take this gem of a quote from Charles,I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a...
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Keystone XL: Ending the Combustapalooza!
In a textbook example of irony, the United States and Canada are considering doing, at the same time, two nonsensically opposite things:1) Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions through substantial effort and...
View ArticleWherein I Prove* That Keystone XL Pipeline Will Have No Environmental Impacts
You might think that the largest pipeline from the world's largest industrial project, which will cause deforestation second only to the Amazon, would have a huge environmental impact, but I can prove,...
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#KeystoneXL Just how dirty are Tar Sands?
Through the '70s after one oil crisis after another there was a proliferation of maps showing the existence of oil deposits throughout the world.The rural regions of Canada had huge deposits, but they...
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A Pipeline "Ed"ucation with the Cowboy and Indian Alliance
Last night, Ed Schultz came out against the pipeline. Now, maybe at first glance that’s no big deal. Ed is a progressive radio and TV host on MSNBC. But just a few weeks ago, Ed was strongly for the...
View Article10 Reasons Why President Obama Is Going to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline
As we enter the fourth quarter of the Keystone XL super bowl, momentum is on the side of pipeline opponents. Here are 10 reasons why President Obama is going to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
View ArticleBill McKibben: The Public Has Done Its Job Beautifully on KXL
I am posting this diary on behalf of Bill McKibben, the President and Co-Founder of 350.org. One of the leading environmental activists and authors in the world, Mr. McKibben is also the Schumann...
View ArticleNo KXL: FEIR Comments from a Climate Activist
[NOTE: These comments were submitted on time to the State Department, and come late to DK. They are, hopefully, worth a read.]For myself, rejection of KXL, as a key part of the dirtiest and largest...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Reject and Protect
On April 27th, the environmental community will once again descend on Washington DC to make their closing argument against the Keystone XL Pipeline. This is a follow up, direct action to the 2 million...
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What the heartland thinks of the Keystone XL pipeline, in one image
My friend and photographer extraordinaire Lou Dematteis went to Nebraska to document the heartland's artistic resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline. Two days ago, on Saturday, April 12th, he snapped...
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Reject and Protect - NoKXL Fighters Arrive at the Washington Mall - A Photo...
This morning the Cowboy Indian Alliance officially opened the Reject and Protect tipi camp on the National Mall. I had to work and couldn't take my own photos of the opening ceremonies, but 350.org's...
View ArticleMSNBC/Rolling Stone: Obama to Say NO to Keystone XL Pipeline (Unconfirmed)
Moments ago, on The Ed Show, on MSNBC, Ed Schultz reported that unnamed sources at the White House (at Rolling Stone Magazine? - correction h/t varii) have leaked that President Obama has made up his...
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Reject and Protect (#NoKXL): Strength in Community on the National Mall, Sat...
The cloudless blue sky above Washington DC on Saturday, April 26th, reflected the expanding passion and commitment expressed by the speakers and participants in the Reject and Protect Tipi Gifting...
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Obama Returns to Silicon Valley - Meet us at the KXL protest rally!
President Obama is returning to Silicon Valley - this time in Mountain ViewSan Jose - on Thursday, May 8th, for a fundraiser. On the heals of the Cowboy Indian Alliance, Reject and Protect rallies last...
View ArticleThe Myth Of Tomorrowland: Thoughts On A Protest (#no KXL, 05/08/2014)
There was a protest in my neighborhood yesterday. The president's in town, fund raising for the DNC. He's staying at one of the city's most expensive hotels in the heart of downtown San Jose, and the...
View ArticleNYT: West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse has Begun
From The New York Times:The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the...
View ArticleHalliburton & Kochs Helped Write North Carolina Fracking Law
From Ecowatch.com:In North Carolina, Halliburton and other fracking industry interests helped write a fracking chemical disclosure bill. But when that bill ended up requiring disclosure of harmful...
View ArticleDept. of Interior to Double Off-Shore Wind Power, Adding 742,000 Acres
From the Department of the Interior website:BOSTON, MA – As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution,...
View ArticleMassive Koch Bros. Defeat: Supreme Court Rules EPA can Regulate Greenhouse Gases
Please suck on this, Charles and David Koch - from politicususa.com:In a complicated ruling today, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Koch Brothers by not overturning the EPA’s ability to regulate...
View ArticleGroup Representing 590 Million Christians Divests From Fossil Fuel
From Addicting Info:Perhaps recalling the parts of the Bible in which God asks that his followers be good stewards to the Earth, the World Council of Churches, a global coalition of 345 churches moved...
View ArticleCourt: Key Environmental Law Doesn't Apply to Part of Enbridge Keystone XL...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogA U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that Enbridge’s 600-mile-long Flanagan South Pipeline, a Keystone XL “clone,” is legally cleared to proceed...
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Energy Bookshelf: Even though we must think about Climate, "Don't Even Think...
George Marshall's Don't Even Think About It: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change (first chapter in pdf) should be on the must read list for anyone concerned about communicating climate...
View ArticleOh, It's On - POTUS Readies Sweeping Series of Executive Actions to Combat...
From Politico:The Obama administration is set to roll out a series of climate and pollution measures that rivals any president’s environmental actions since George H.W. Bush signed a rewrite of the...
View ArticleWhite House Strongly Suggests it would Veto Pro-Keystone XL Bill
From politicususa.com:Without issuing a formal veto threat, the White House is making it clear that if Congress passes a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama will...
View ArticleMassey Energy CEO Don Blankenship INDICTED
From The Charleston Gazette:Don Blankenship, the longtime chief executive of Massey Energy, was indicted today on charges that he violated federal mine safety laws at the company’s Upper Big Branch...
View ArticlePOTUS Makes Strongest Statement Yet Against Keystone XL Pipeline
The President, in Myanmar earlier today, in response to a reporter's question:...I have to constantly push back against this idea that somehow the Keystone pipeline is either this massive jobs bill for...
View ArticleState Dept. Keystone XL North Contractor ERM Approved Project Now Melting...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogA controversial government contractor once again finds itself in hot water, or in this case, melting glacier water. TransCanada chose Environmental Resources Management...
View ArticleGulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export? Follow the Oiltanking Trail
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogThe U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s KeystoneXL pipeline, but incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
View ArticlePresident Obama Will Veto Keystone XL Pipeline Bill
Breaking from The Washington Post:President Obama would veto a bill that would allow for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, the White House said Tuesday. "If this bill passes this Congress...
View ArticleObama Announces Actions to Cut Methane Emissions by Almost Half
From whitehouse.gov:FACT SHEET: Administration Takes Steps Forward on Climate Action Plan by Announcing Actions to Cut Methane EmissionsThe Obama Administration is committed to taking responsible steps...
View ArticleEnbridge Gets Another Federal Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Permit As Senate...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogOn January 16, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave Enbridge a controversialNationwide Permit 12 green-light for its proposed Line 78 pipeline, set to bring heavy tar sands...
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Scotland Places Indefinite Ban on Fracking
(Image: Protestors in Grangemouth, Scotland. Dec. 7, 2014 - Photo by Ric Lander) From thinkprogress.org:The Scottish government has announced that it will place a temporary ban on the controversial...
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Taylor Energy Oil Spill in Gulf Still Secretly Spewing Since 2004
(photo courtesy of the Gulf Restoration Network)From the AP, via The New Orleans Advocate:OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — A blanket of fog lifts, exposing a band of rainbow sheen that stretches for...
View ArticleEmails: How Obama Administration Secretly Approved Expanding Piece of...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogDeSmogBlog has obtained dozens of emails that lend an inside view of how the U.S. State Department secretly handed Enbridge a permit to expand the capacity of its...
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Jeb Bush Says it's "Really Arrogant" to be Certain About Man-Made Global Warming
(photo credit: Rollins College)From Talking Points Memo:Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Wednesday that it's "really arrogant" for people to say there's a scientific consensus on man-made...
View ArticleJudges Nixing Keystone XL South Cases Had Tar Sands-Related Oil Investments
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogOn August 4, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 10th Circuit shot down the Sierra Club's petition for rehearing motion for the southern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Opposes the KXL Pipeline
w00t! w00t!Apparently she just announced it at an Iowa Town Hall. From a tweet from reporter Samantha-Jo Roth:.@HillaryClinton - "I oppose Keystone XL pipeline" #IAcaucus pic.twitter.com/2pf0ah04B3...
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WH: China to Launch Carbon Cap-and-Trade Plan in 2017
(photo credit: John Masden)From The Guardian:China, the world’s biggest carbon polluter, will launch a national cap-and-trade scheme in 2017, the White House said on Thursday. The move, announced...
View Article#NoKXL Victory Lap
You did it!I did it!We. did. it !!!!!Let's be proud of our long fight and now celebrate our sweet victory. And then get back, re-envigorated, to tackling the ecosystemic challenges ahead.What a...
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President Obama opens Facebook page
Did You See? The White House has had/let President Obama open hiw own facebook page. Read more: www.politico.com/...POLITICO: White House opens Facebook page.President Barack Obama is upping his...
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World Reaction to Paris Climate Agreement
USA (Time)United Kingdom (BBC)France (Le Monde)Italy (La Repubblica)Spain (El Pais)Germany (Stern)Saudi Arabia (Al Arabiya)Japan (Nikkei)Australia (ABC)Just a tiny sample, but it suggests the entire...
View ArticleDuring Paris Climate Summit, Obama Signed Exxon-, Koch-Backed Bill Expediting...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogJust over a week before the U.S. signed the Paris climate agreement at the conclusion of the COP21 United Nations summit, President Barack Obama signed a bill into law with...
View Article2nd Largest US Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy
From Think Progress:Arch Coal, one of the United States’ largest coal companies, filed for bankruptcy on Monday in the hopes of eliminating more than $4.5 billion in long-term debt, according to a...
View ArticlePOTUS Blocks Arctic Oil Drilling Through 2022
From The Huffington Post:Further cementing President Barack Obama’s climate legacy, the Department of the Interior announced on Friday its intent to ban oil drilling in the U.S. section of the Arctic...
View ArticleExxonMobil Asks Trump to Maintain the Paris Climate Deal
From Fortune:ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company, is urging the White House to stick with the global climate agreement reached in Paris last year.In a letter sent to the...
View ArticleGive in, Give Up, or Give it All You Got
Those were the words of one KXL pipeline fighter testifying at the fourth and final public hearing of the Nebraska Public ServiceCommission (PSC) in Ralston, Nebraska on July 26, 2017.She was...
View Article"The Women got Sense, the Men got Dollars"
This morning the Nebraska Public Service Commission approved TransCanada’s Alternative Route through Nebraska. The vote was 2 against, 3 in favor of this disastrous export pipeline.When I told my...
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Petition: Greta Thunberg Visits Lakota Country and Joins Our Call to Stop...
What an important time it is for us in Lakota Country. A few weeks ago, we had the honor of hosting Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg at the Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations. Greta...
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