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Top 11 Environmental Cartoons of 2011 – Mean Joe Green
Bears on Breastfeeding. The Earth on Tim DeChrstopher. Michelle Bachmann on what Americans want. Mean Joe green’s top eleven cartoons of 2011 will keep you entertained…until next year.
Trash Gas For Trash Trucks
A typical American throws out about four pounds of trash per day, or more than 240 million tons every year. Most of that garbage winds up in landfills and releases methane as it decomposes. But what if that gas could be harnessed as a clean energy source for vehicles?
energyNOW! correspondent Peter Standring visited a California landfill to see how one waste disposal company is turning trash from landfills into clean-burning fuel for trash trucks.
Big Coal Shaping Public School Education–Really!
Can you cough “Jingle Bells”? In a Coalementary School you’ll learn how…or die trying.
Congress Moves Toward Tougher Stand on Pipeline Safety, But is it Enough?
A bill to strengthen oil and gas pipeline safety regulations awaits President Obama’s signature. But while many applaud Congress’s move toward more oversight, others question whether the impending law goes far enough.
Citizen Democracy Versus a Strip Mine
Borrowing a tactic from the Occupy movement, citizens had to get creative at a recent BLM meeting to gather public comments on a proposed strip mine near Bryce Canyon National Park because public comments were not being heard.
