(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 1, 2015
Halfway to Hell: Global Temperatures Hit Critical Point, Warn Scientists Bold climate action will save huge numbers of lives and produce significant cost savings in the health sector. Direct health impacts from climate change are expected to cost the world US$2-4 billion a year by 2030. The latest research underscores the urgency for government's to act and the solutions are ready and waiting.

(6 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 27, 2015
Hillary Clinton: If I'm Elected President Every American Home Will Be Powered by Renewables by 2027 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rolled out an ambitious climate and energy proposal Sunday evening. She said, if elected president, on day one she'd set two national goals -- every American home will be powered by renewable energy by 2027 and more than half a billion solar panels will be installed across the country before the end of her first term.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 16, 2015
Sanders Calls Out Clinton's Silence on Keystone XL Clinton's record and her remarks on climate are in stark contrast to the entire Republican field. While a few have tentatively said that climate change is likely happening, all have warmly embraced the fossil fuel industry and most have joined congressional Republicans in rejecting steps to address climate, and all support the Keystone XL pipeline.

SHARE        Monday, June 22, 2015
How Pope Francis's Climate Encyclical Is Disrupting American Politics There are signs that this climate and energy revolution is also breaking apart the frozen tectonic plates which have locked American conservatism into an orthodoxy of inaction not just on global warming, but on almost every problem challenging our society. No longer do all conservatives join Koch, Heartland and Republican Presidential candidates in dismissing conservative engagement with climate solutions.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 12, 2015
Senator James Inhofe to Pope Francis: Butt Out of Climate Debate Senator Inhofe took potshots at Pope Francis, who has spoken out repeatedly on climate change and is expected to deliver his long-awaited encyclical on the topic next week. "Everyone is going to ride the Pope now. Isn't that wonderful," said Inhofe sarcastically. "The Pope ought to stay with his job, and we'll stay with ours."

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 19, 2015
4 Climate Surprises From Al Gore in Iowa It was heartening to hear Gore say over and over that we can make politicians change their minds and take a stand on climate change. Talking to your local representative, your city council, your county official, your senator--anyone--is free to you and takes only minutes. They're required to listen--and furthermore, it could even change their minds.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 18, 2015
Koch Brothers Claim Another State in War on Renewables In the last few years, pressed by fossil fuel businesses such as Koch Industries and advocacy groups funded by the Koch brothers, including Americans for Prosperity and the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC), bills have been introduced in state after state to repeal these renewable energy standards. And in a few states, such as Ohio and West Virginia, they've succeeded.

SHARE        Thursday, April 23, 2015
Confirmed: Oklahoma Earthquakes Caused By Fracking The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released a report today outlining models that forecast the potential earthquake damage in areas of induced seismicity. The USGS says bluntly, "Earthquake activity has sharply increased since 2009 in the central and eastern United States.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 16, 2015
Al Gore Teams Up With Tea Party to Fight for Rooftop Solar When you find Democrat Al Gore on the same side of an environmental issue as a far-right Tea Party leader, it's eye-opening. But left and right are coming together over the issue of distributed solar power and the right of homeowners and businesses to install rooftop photovoltaic solar panels.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 9, 2015
First Florida, Now Wisconsin, Bans the Words "Climate Change" One month ago, officials and staff at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection were ordered not to use the terms "climate change" or "global warming" even when they were discussing the all-too-obvious impacts to their vulnerable state. Now it's Wisconsin's turn. They can't even discuss climate change, no matter what they call it. Staff members aren't even permitted to respond to emails on the subject.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 5, 2015
Shell's Arctic Drilling Plans Approved by Department of Interior Despite court cases finding it had illegally sold oil and gas exploration leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska and despite its own environmental impact study depicting the dangers of drilling there, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has opened the door to selling offshore drilling leases in the Arctic seas again.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 3, 2015
Drought-Stricken California Exempts Big Oil and Big Ag from Mandatory Restrictions The April 1 snowpack assessment in California, which set an all-time record for lowest snowpack levels in the state's history, finally spurred Governor Brown's office to issue an executive order to residents and non-agricultural businesses to cut water use by 25 percent in the first mandatory statewide reduction in the state's history.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Fighting Dark Money to Restore Our Democracy That there is rising investor concern about corporate political spending, especially hidden spending, is indicated by the fact that, in the last five years, shareholders have filed more than 500 resolutions on such corporate spending. It is hoped that the SEC will take action on behalf of shareholders who are being stonewalled by the companies whose stock they own.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 21, 2015
New Fracking Rules on Public Lands "A Giveaway to Oil and Gas Industry," Advocates Say Drilling has been occurring on federal lands for years with more than 100,000 wells in existence. However, following the fracking boom of the last two decades, more than 90 percent of new drilling operations involve that process, evading the regulations of 30 years ago.

SHARE        Monday, March 16, 2015
Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to "Punish Climate-Change Deniers" and "Put a Price on Carbon" Years from now, Gore said the next generation will look back at us and ask: "How did you change?" according to Macworld. "Part of the answer may well be that a group of people came to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas in 2015 and helped to make a revolution," Gore said.

SHARE        Wednesday, March 4, 2015
David Suzuki: Climate Change Is Real Threat, Not Activists Calling for Immediate Action Pollution and climate change caused by excessive burning of fossil fuels are real threats, not the people who warn that we must take these threats seriously. And while we must also respond to terrorism with the strong tools already in place, we have to remember that our rights and freedoms, not fear, are what keep us strong.

SHARE        Thursday, January 8, 2015
11 Earthquakes Rock Texas Fracking Heartland in 24 Hours Earthquakes, once rare in the area, have been increasing in frequency, with more than 20 since last September, according to StateImpact Texas, a project of two Texas public radio stations. And with Irving sitting on top of the natural gas-rich and heavily fracked Barnett shale deposit as well as the Balcones Fault Zone, many residents and researchers are think it's to blame here too, just as in Ohio.

SHARE        Saturday, January 3, 2015
Eating Fast Food Linked to Lower Test Scores A study shows children who ate fast food more than three times a week had lower test scores than those eating little to no fast food.

SHARE        Friday, January 2, 2015
Keystone XL Debate to Take Center Stage in New Congress The House has voted in the past to approve the pipeline and appears poised to do so again -- so quickly, in fact, that three Democrats sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner this week, urging that the House follow the full process of vetting a bill. They asked Boehner not to bypass the committee process to bring an immediate floor vote.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 28, 2014
Why the Lima Climate Talks Sucked for Women and Indigenous People At COP20, leaders discussed "gender responsive" approaches to climate change, but little was actually done to address it. UN Sec. General Ban Ki-moon said there