
Category: environment

Greenpeace is launching a major new campaign against the tuna industry, built around the massive deaths to other species caused by the way albacore tuna is caught: Longlines are just that – long lin
The border fence is such a disaster. Here’s yet another example: Flooding caused by a border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and without reg
At Alternet, Tara Lohan has a really interesting long interview with radical environmentalists Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay, who have published a new book where they call for the end t
The White House and the major automakers have come to a deal that would raise auto efficiency requirements to as high as 54 mpg by 2025. The automakers were not happy about this and tried a media blit
I have an article at Global Comment on fracking, expanding on some of the themes I’ve discussed here over the past few weeks. Regarding Andrew Cuomo’s appointment of leading environmentali
Again, I just have a really hard time understanding why we don’t trust the energy industry to look out for our best interests? In 2007, Berry Energy Inc. of Clarksburg began drilling a conventio
I have long had tremendous difficulty understanding the opposition of fossil fuel companies to new fuel technologies. For instance: The oil and gas industry gave astrophysicist Willie Soon more than $
Miners experienced awful conditions in the coal regions of West Virginia in the early 20th century. Coal companies ruled the region like a fiefdom. Impoverished workers had few connections with the ou
- I guess they had some time to line this one up
- It happened here
- Elite complacency and Roe
- Supreme Court Dissents Are Worthless
- An Incorrect Prediction
- A day that will live in infamy
- A Scene from Japan
- Yesterday’s other Roberts Court atrocity
- The 7/11 Battle in Japan
- This Day in Labor History: June 24, 1867