Offshore Wind Power Coming to East Coast Federal Waters
From The Washington Post:When Gina McCarthy first met with Obama in the Oval Office on Jan. 10 to discuss the prospect of heading the Environmental Protection Agency, she recalled, “the first words out...
View ArticleUS Dept. of Interior Calls BS on State Dept.'s Keystone XL Impact Report
From The Guardian:The US Department of the Interior has criticised as "inaccurate" the State Department's draft conclusions that the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline on wildlife would be temporary,...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing, 9/3/13: Polar Bears Not Pipelines
Back in June we went to a residential neighborhood in Palo Alto, CA where the president was scheduled to appear at a fundraiser and dine in the home of some lucky person. When we arrived at our...
View ArticleNBC News: Fracking Conclusively to Blame for Ohio Earthquakes
From NBC News:Before January 2011, Youngstown, Ohio, which is located on the Marcellus Shale, had never experienced an earthquake, at least not since researchers began observations in 1776. However, in...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/24/13: Local Activism is the Front Line For Climate...
Rising Tide Think About Our Children On Saturday the three of us went to Palo Alto to join with other 350.org members and environmental activists across the country to Draw the Line. About 70 people...
View ArticleRisking Arrest Tomorrow Re: XL Pipeline
I thought I'd let all my friends at DailyKos know that I will be joining this action tomorrow morning:#NoKXL Pledge of Resistance Actions Boston #NoKXL State Department sit-inJoin the rally and sit-in...
View ArticleTPP - TTIP and the "Wag the Dog" Shutdown Game
Whenever a lot of things are going on I can't make sense of there's something in the back of my mind that starts to gnaw at me. This has happened ever since my Vietnam War days. At the impressionable...
View ArticleKXL Foxes Write the Henhouse News. MICATS Are Convicted of Criminal Caring
Yes, America, we understand. We understand that we are fully owned and operated by the Global Lubrication Cartel, and that no matter whom we elect, the Cartel gets its blood tribute. We understand the...
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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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