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Christie Joins Tin Foil Hat Brigade

MAY 21, 2013
Someone needs to tell New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that tin foil hats don't prevent hurricanes.
 
They do, however, make a good shield to prevent climate science from entering the brain, which is why Christie and so many other—mostly Republican—lawmakers wear them. The truth hurts.
 
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clean energy

Clean Energy 4, Koch Brothers 0

MAY 20, 2013
The Koch brothers got more bad news over the weekend as the Missouri legislature joined the growing list of states to reject the Koch's proposal to weaken or eliminate state standards requiring the use of renewable energy sources.
 
Already Kansas, North Carolina, Colorado and New York have voted to keep or -- in the case of Colorado -- strengthen their renewable energy standards. However, there are proposals in another dozen states still being considered, so now is not the time to relax. Click here to sign our petition telling state lawmakers across the nation that Americans support clean, green energy and don't want states to cave to the wishes of the fossil fuel industry.
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Loggers Want to Make Tree-sitting a Felony

MAY 17, 2013
Logging corporations in Oregon are trying to kick environmentalists out of their trees by getting the state to make it a felony to protest logging by tree-sitting and to allow companies to sue protesters for financial damages caused by such protests.
 
In April, Oregon's House passed two bills that would allow police to charge tree sitters and non-violent protesters with felonies that carry mandatory minimum sentences upon conviction. A first offense would be a felony with a mandatory minimum sentence of 13 months. A second offense would garner a $25,000 fine and five years in prison. Another bill would allow loggers to sue protesters for up to $10,000 in lost income.
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This hearing is Fracked

MAY 16, 2013

 

They didn't ask for your voice, but they need to hear it. 
 
Congress is finally holding hearings about natural gas drilling, and instead of inviting the people who live near fracking wells, Congress has decided only to listen to the polluters, drillers and frackers. That's right -- they're having a hearing on fracking, but the fracktivists fighting the poison and pollution caused by this dangerous drilling practice aren't invited.
 
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Big Oil

GOP Takes Ball and Goes Home

MAY 10, 2013
As with so many issues, Congressional Republicans are fighting Obama's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency by using committee rules to slow down the process. Essentially unable to stop action that would protect the planet but hurt their Big Oil and King Coal pay-masters, GOP senators have staged a boycott of, well, governing -- rather than allow proven environmental champion Gina McCarthy so much as a chance to tackle big issues like pollution and global warming.
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Wisconsin

Global Warming: Parching and Flooding my Home—Again.

MAY 9, 2013

Global warming is often described as an abstract, distant issue. For any of us who grew up in Wisconsin in the 1980's, it is far from that. In 1988, as the news was breaking of the dire environmental threat of global warming, even worse than the hole in the ozone layer,the worst drought since the Dust Bowl era struck. It decimated  our lovely Wisconsin summer, the pay off for enduring frigid Arctic winters, and was the starting gun on what would become a painful, dry decade. For an area that's home to most of the planet's fresh water, where the lakes are both Great and plentiful, it was scary stuff. I remember that the fire of my environmental activism was further enflamed by those long hot summers.

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Feds Mulling Plan to Open Wolf Slaughter Nationwide

MAY 8, 2013
After having removed the endangered species protections for the gray wolf in five states, the federal government is now considered removing those protections in the rest of the lower 48 states.
 
Ironically (or is it "tragically"?), the US Fish and Wildlife Service said it is considering this move because we now have "robust" wolf populations in the U.S. thanks to endangered species act protections, which F&W calls "one of the world’s great conservation successes."
 

No more Blind Faith in Oil

MAY 6, 2013

We are excited by Sally Jewell's confirmation as Interior Secretary. Her background as the head of REI might make her more favorable to conservation, or at least more aware of the economic values of recreation and conservation - not just hunting, ranching and drilling.

But we also know she used to be an oil engineer. That part of her resume, along with Obama's "all of the below" energy policy means it was inevitable that she would eventually go on trips like this recent one to a Chevron oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico where she will be inclined to say some frankly pretty stupid stuff about Big Oil.

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Green Energy Wins in NC as Jobs Trump Politics

MAY 6, 2013
The Koch brothers and their legislative lobbying front group, the American Legal Exchange Council, aren't having much luck getting states to repeal their renewable energy standards, and their recent failure in the Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature shows why.
 
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100,000 strong against fracking in Pennyslvania

MAY 1, 2013

The way state capitol buildings are designed to make people feel small. The high ceilings, the classical architecture, the cold stone all are made to shrink the voice. But on Tuesday, April 30th, when I visited my own state Capitol building in Harrisburg, PA,for the first time, that was not the case, because I was not a single person. I came as part of  a broad spectrum of anti-fracking activists to call for a moratorium.

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