Here are a few words from the Sierra Club: Our public lands are under threat. Elon Musk’s DOGE team has fired thousands of rangers, docents, educators, scientists, and caretakers of the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and …
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New Jeopardy! Champ Is an Attorney for The Sierra Club
From the Sierra Club: Tune in to Jeopardy tonight to see Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program Staff Attorney Megan Wachspress! Megan is an associate attorney with the Beyond Coal Campaign. Before joining the Sierra Club, Megan worked at a public …
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The World Tires of Oil Spills
From The Sierra Club: This past Sunday, 144,000 gallons of oil spilled into Orange County coastal waters, beaches and wetlands, causing authorities to close several beaches. This is a public health disaster for the surrounding communities and wildlife. To prevent …
Stay Away from Snap Judgements
I sometimes find myself making snap judgements about people based simply on their appearance, and I don’t like that about myself. The guy in the picture here, however, simply exudes certain characteristics that anyone could spot. I’m thinking: • Adores the …
Kiss The Ground
The Sierra Club makes the point that most documentaries on climate change leave their audiences with a sense of hopelessness, whether by design or by accident. And indeed, the problem is large and growing, and human civilization, fragmented as it …
Charitable Giving: Turimiquire Foundation Sends 93 Cents of Every Dollar To People in Need
The chart here says a lot. FWIW, here’s what I do with my charitable dollars. Sure, like many of readers here at 2GreenEnergy, I’m a dues-paying member of the Sierra Club, Amnesty International and a couple of others along these …
Resisting Andrew Wheeler as EPA Administrator
Here’s the Sierra Club’s thinking on this, and here’s mine: Obviously it would be better if we had not elected as U.S. president a wrecking ball to the environment, but we did.
CEO of $700 Million Mega-Polluter: “Our Goose Was Cooked Until President Trump and Scott Pruitt Came To Town.”
A few hours before the end of his tenure as EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt made a desperate attempt to exploit a loophole in an Obama-era law that would have limited the number of refurbished trucks with older, highly polluting diesel …
Defunding NASA’s Climate Research: It’s Not a Complicated Issue
In response to my post explaining how the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will soon see all its climate change research funding removed, here’s a short excerpt from frequent commenter MarcoPolo’s much longer response: It’s always controversial when …
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Is It Really “Shocking” that Donald Trump will Eliminate NASA’s Climate Research Program?
I thought I’d publish the email I just got from the Sierra Club (of which I’m one of about 2.5 million members), and offer a comment or two at the end: “SHOCKINGLY STUPID!” That’s what one climate policy expert called …
