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Exclusive: How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry—and Why They Stopped [UPDATE]

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:00:08 +0000

Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to find the right line on shale natural gas and the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. Gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal—according to most scientists—and produces far fewer air pollutants. That was enough for many major green groups to give support to gas as a “bridge fuel” [...]

A Nuke Scare in San Diego Shakes an Already Nervous Public

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:21 +0000

If you’ve felt jumpy since Fukushima, you’re not alone. Even the tiniest burp from a nuclear power plant gets people fearing the worst, so it was scary news indeed when the San Onofre plant in San Diego County announced at 6:30 PM (PST) on Tuesday night that one of it’s reactors might have begun leaking [...]

Invaders: How Burmese Pythons Are Devouring the Everglades

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:14 +0000

Burmese pythons are eating machines. An adult snake can grow to nearly 20 ft., and it can eat everything from raccoons to bobcats to deer to alligators, killing its prey by constriction and then swallowing them whole. On the jungle food chain, Burmese pythons rest near the top. Burmese pythons are also — as the [...]

Paying for Nature: Dow’s Environmental Bottom Line

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:16 +0000

A year ago I traveled to Detroit to moderate a discussion between Mark Tercek, the head of the Nature Conservancy (TNC)—one of the biggest green groups in the U.S.—and Andrew Liveris, the CEO of Dow Chemical. They were in town to talk about an innovative collaboration that would help TNC develop strategies that would help [...]

LEED From Behind: Why We Should Focus on Greening Existing Buildings

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:00:14 +0000

In an era of LEED-certified construction and growing concern for sustainability, it comes as a surprise that constructing new, energy-efficient buildings can be less eco-friendly than renovating old ones. A study by the Preservation Green Lab of the National Trust for Historic Preservation shows building reuse almost always has fewer environmental impacts than new construction—which means we’d [...]

State of the Union: From Climate to Clean Energy to…Fracking?

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:22 +0000

Well, he mentioned the ‘c’ word this year. Last year President Obama raised more than a few eyebrows when he failed to talk about climate change during his State of the Union—something even his Republican predecessor George W. Bush, no friend of the environment, usually managed to work in. But last night Obama did cite [...]

Political Pollution: How Bad Air is Slowly Changing China

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:00:16 +0000

China confirmed this week that the number of its citizens living in cities has surpassed the rural population for the first time in its history. That massive urbanization — 690.79 million people are now city-dwellers according to the National Bureau of Statistics — has brought huge benefits, chief among them lifting hundreds of millions out [...]

Fracked: The Debate Over Shale Gas Deepens

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:00:17 +0000

Is shale gas good for us or not? Most of that argument has been over the potential risks that hydrofracking for shale gas might pose to water supplies—risks that were highlighted again this week when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) came to Dimock, PA, to test groundwater in the area. You might know Dimock from [...]

The Global Energy Supply Is Getting Greener. It’s Just Not Happening Fast Enough

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:00:13 +0000

With President Obama’s rejection (for now) of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline fresh in everyone’s mind—and conservatives and the oil industry already hammering him, even as greens sing his praises—you can be sure that energy issues will play a bigger role than usual in the 2012 election. So it’s worth taking a step [...]

Pipeline Politics: Keystone Is Dead (For Now). What Happens Next?

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:00:05 +0000

Chalk a win up for the environmentalists. On Wednesday, the White House announced that it was rejecting—on the recommendation of the State Department—the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought 700,000 barrels a day of oil sands crude from western Canada into the U.S. In many ways the announcement—forced by Congressional legislation passed late [...]

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