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Sinking Smokestacks and Crumbling Cooling Towers [VIDEO]
A UK-based green energy company is turning heads with a clever new video made to promote the switch to renewable energy. The “Dump the Big Six,” campaign from Ecotricity urges UK residents to break ties with the six big utilities and switch to renewable power provided by Ecotricity. Watch it: H/t: Treehugger
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Republican Presidential Candidates on Climate Change
From Skeptics to Flip-Floppers to Believers, here’s how the Republican candidates for president stack up on climate change.
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What US Lawmakers Can Learn from Australia’s Carbon Tax
A climate bill is again on the table in Australia after Prime Minister Julia Gillard Sunday outlined a plan to reduce the country’s annual carbon emissions by 159 million tons 2020.
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Best (and Worst) Campaign Ads of 2010: Energy and the Environment
Here’s our list of the best and worst campaign ads of 2010 focused on energy and the environment.
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The 7 Most Ridiculous Things Rush Limbaugh Has Said About BP’s Oil Spill
In the days and weeks following the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Rush Limbaugh confirmed that his grasp of offshore energy policy and technology is about as strong as Glenn Beck’s grasp of U.S. public lands policy.
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by Lena Groeger, ProPublica Last week several media outlets obtained the federal Bureau of Land Management’s draft of proposed rules requiring fracking companies to disclose the chemicals they pump into the ground. Such disclosure requirements have been championed by environmentalists for years and were endorsed by President Obama in the State of the Union, but [...]
We Ain’t Broke, So Let’s Fix It
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Why the Energy Industry Is So Invested In Climate Change Denial
The world most’s profitable companies are valued by their carbon reserves – never mind the resulting ruin to the planet
Greenhouse Gases Are the Steroids of the Climate System
Some people have used the analogy comparing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to steroids in a baseball player.
On Eve of EU-China Summit, China Forbids Airlines from Paying EU Carbon Tax
With a major EU-China summit scheduled for next week, the Chinese government on Monday banned the country’s airlines from taking part in a European Union carbon-emissions scheme that levees a fee on all airlines flying into or out of EU airports.
