Climate
How Much More Proof Do We Need?
West Virginia is dealing with another coal-related toxic spill, and people are finding out the hard way about the real dangers of fossil fuels. This is the third coal-related spill in a single month. How much more evidence do we need ?
Barack Obama: Climate Realist
"Climate change is a fact," said President Obama at the State of the Union. While that was directly lobbed at climate deniers, it was also implicitly aimed at those environmentalists who have been critical of his support for natural gas.
"60 Minutes" Gets Everything About Clean Energy Wrong
"60 Minutes" suggests that Obama's clean energy investments are a taxpayer waste, yet ignores how we've massively increased our clean energy capacity in just five years.
ALEC Needs To Let The Sun Shine In
Why would the ALEC network of right-wing state lobbyists want to kill off incentives for using solar energy? Could it be the heavy investment in fossil fuels by one of ALEC's chief funders, the Koch brothers?
Climate Politics Will Be Brutal In 2014
Progressives may be feeling pretty good these days. De Blasio ascendant. Summers thwarted. Republicans imploding over ObamaCare. Well, here's a jerk back into harsh reality.
Obama Is Making Us Energy Independent. It's Not Enough.
Carbon emissions are down. Oil consumption is down. Renewable energy consumption is up. America is projected to be energy independent by 2030. And yet there is more to do.
America Deserves A Solar Manufacturing Industry
America used to have a thriving computer-chip manufacturing industry. Now China does that. America deserves to have a solar manufacturing industry, even if the "serious people" say this should end up in China, too. This is about jobs.
New EPA Chief Nails It
"Climate Change Isn't an Environmental Issue. It Is a Fundamental Economic Challenge." Above is the first speech from Gina McCarthy since Republicans stood down from filibustering her nomination to head the EPA.
How About Coal Ash For School Lunches?
House Republicans just passed a bill to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of authority to regulate coal ash. Maybe they plan to "save money" by putting it in school lunches? In 2008, a levee broke on a coal ash impoundment in Tennessee, spilling more than 5...
As Manufacturing Jobs Flounder, New Book Has Answers
"Going down to Mississippi wages does not signal a bright future for American economy." - Harold Meyerson President Obama campaigned with a promise to add 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. So far only 13,000 have been added. The AAMeter illulstrates...
