The Keystone Pipeline ruins the planet. But it has two modes: When it works as advertised, this destruction takes place slowly, over a period of decades; when it fails, the process is greatly accelerated. The Facebook post to the left …
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Looking Beyond the White House for Strategic Planning in Clean Transportation
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his Green Auto Digest: The Trump administration is keeping the president’s campaign promises supporting fossil fuels and pushing back on clean energy and efficient, clean transport. The State Department’s approval of the Keystone XL …
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Putting the Problems of the Third World Into Perspective
Here’s a video that hit me hard. I hope you’ll take a few minutes and let it sink in. It’s interesting that it’s sponsored by “WaterIsLife.com,” as it’s a reminder that third world’s problems include the sad and inexcusable fact …
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Big Oil and Big Money
In a post yesterday on Shell and the rest of the oil companies, I mentioned that I could have chosen any of hundreds of examples of corruption between Big Oil and U.S. law-makers. Here’s another beauty: each senator who voted …
Keystone XL Pipeline Still Hotly Contested
It looks like the Keystone XL Pipeline is going to face a tough time on U.S. President Obama’s desk, and an American Petroleum Institute spokesperson says he’s “disappointed” by this countervailing force that appears ready to fight a Republican-led congress. …
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Louis de Saint Phalle: Shaheen-Portman: A Missed Opportunity in Energy Efficiency
If you’ve been following the recent energy efficiency news, maybe you’ve heard about the Shaheen-Portman bill that got “killed” in the senate one month ago. Also known as the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, it has been re-introduced several …
Ouch! Pointy Barb on the American Petroleum Institute and the Keystone XL Pipeline
A few years ago, someone told me never to be sarcastic in my writing, but I find it tough; sometimes I think it can be quite persuasive. Here’s a case in point: an animated video about the American Petroleum Institute …
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Obama’s Decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline
Bill McKibben’s and my position on the Obama administration’s approach to energy policy and climate change are identical. In a sentence: Obama can’t have it both ways; he can’t simultaneously be proud of the fact that we now extract and …
Keystone XL Pipeline: No Boon for Job Creation
Summarizing my position on the Keystone XL pipeline, energy policy, and job growth: instead of investing in what “Story of Stuff” founder Annie Leonard (pictured) refers to as the “dinosaur economy” of the 20th Century, I would aggressively phase into what …
Prediction: Obama Will Axe the Keystone XL Pipeline
I have a good feeling that U.S. President Obama will axe the Keystone XL Pipeline. My reasoning has nothing to do with the noise that environmentalists are making, though I’m not discounting that effect altogether. I’m thinking that none of …
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