Reader Jay asks for my response here: I’m curious on your take on what seems like an increase in anti climate change events like the one you reference in your post (“Are Environmental Protectors “Alarmists?”). That video has probably a …
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The Rise of Climate Denial
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ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, American Petroleum Institute Named in Climate Change Litigation
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed suit against fossil fuel organizations ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute. Minnesota joins at least 15 other plaintiffs, including attorneys general in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island, who have brought …
Eviscerating Our Environmental Protections
Here are 28 of the 101 laws on our books aimed at environmental protection that the Trump administration has either gutted or is in the process of gutting. Those wishing to profit from befouling our skies and waterways have walked …
News Media: “After a Life of Incalculable Harm, Billionaire Climate Denialist and Right-Wing Villain David Koch Dead at 79”
I had to laugh when I saw this headline this morning. The author apparently is either unaware of or not compelled by the two thousand year old aphorism: “De mortuis nil nisi bene dicendum,” or “Of the dead let nothing …
Koch Industries Extremely Effective
A great number of ballot initiatives aimed at mitigating climate change went up in flames in the midterms on Tuesday, largely because voters were misled by a torrent of advertising. Here’s an article describing how the Koch brothers and other …
Bloomberg and Moody’s: Corporate Buyers Snatching Up Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements
It appears that the opponents of renewable energy, e.g., the Koch Brothers, have won the battle but lost the war. Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), the mechanism that many people thought would win the day for solar and wind, have been …
EPA’s Clean Energy Plan
Here’s an article whose message is simple: the political rhetoric surrounding energy is often misleading. I’m not sure that’s exactly news, but that’s the take-away nonetheless. In this case, a guy with ties to the fossil fuel business, Koch Industries …
Big Times for Koch Industries and Other Kingpins of Big Coal – But Not Everywhere
The effects of Big Money on politics are loathsome indeed, though it’s gratifying to know that there are places that this corruption simply can’t reach. Take Oregon, for instance. Far be it from me to tell the Koch Brothers how …
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Can the Koch Brothers Really Be That Evil?
I had to laugh just now when I came across this article entitled: Yes, the Koch brothers really are that evil. To explain this sort of gallows humor, I need to mention that my mother and I speak frequently about …
U.S. Migration to Renewables Happening Slowly—Here’s Why
Because I live in the U.S., and I’m most familiar with the goings on here, most of my posts concern the migration to renewable energy, albeit painfully slow, that’s occurring within my country’s borders. There are a few main reasons …
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