Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels Reach New Record High

jclifford 5/26/2012
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The International Energy Agency reported that carbon emissions from fossil fuels increased by a gigaton last year, a 3.2 percent increase that made last year’s carbon emissions from coal, oil, and natural gas the highest ever in human history.

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Protesters Stop Coal Shipments Through Civil Disobedience

The Green Man 5/25/2012
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Yesterday, activists from Mountain Justice and Radical Action For Mountain People’s Survival performed two acts of civil disobedience against destructive coal mining in the Appalachians. Five people boarded an immense coal barge and chained themselves to the ship, immobilizing it …

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Obama Sued For Approval Of Oil Drilling Amid Endangered Whales

The Green Man 5/17/2012
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Four years ago, we blasted Sarah Palin for advocating oil drilling in the habitat of endangered beluga whales. Now, the Obama Administration has approved oil drilling in the habitat of those endangered whales. Are we supposed to look the other way, just because Obama is a Democrat?

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Oil And Oil Dispersant Found In Pelican Eggs Hatching In Minnesota

The Green Man 5/17/2012
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Pelicans in Minnesota are laying eggs contaminated with crude oil and the oil spill dispersant Corexit. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill may still be spreading, up to the border with Canada now.

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Hitting the Bottom Line: Where Activism has an Impact

Jim Cook 5/16/2012
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Corporations are artificial entities that are constrained under law to prioritize the maximization of their stock value above all other values. This means that if people want to alter the behavior of corporations, they have to either force corporations’ behavior …

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One Dress Versus Obama: Who Is More Executive?

The Green Man 5/14/2012
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Activist Kristy Powell or President Barack Obama – who is more executive?

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Stop the Frack Attack Rally against Fracking July 28 in Washington, DC

Jim Cook 5/11/2012
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If you say enough with the earthquakes (yes, earthquakes), enough with the spills, enough with the carcinogenic drinking water, enough with plans for drill rigs on campus, enough with cozy insiderism going all the way up to the Obama administration, …

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Obama Administration Covered Up Oil Spill Photos Of Dead Marine Life

The Green Man 5/7/2012
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The Obama White House had in its possession large numbers of photographs of endangered marine animals covered in oil – including photographs of huge piles of garbage bags filled with dead sea turtles. Obama decided to cover up the photographs, to keep them secret from the American people – in order to protect Big Oil.

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Fossil Fuels Are Not Forward, President Obama

The Green Man 5/3/2012
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Barack Obama gives us his new campaign commercial, Forward, in which he celebrates the expansion of fossil fuels like crude oil and gas. How is that forward?!?

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Making Peace With Wolves

The Green Man 5/3/2012
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A plan to kill hundreds of wolves in Wyoming was announced this week. As hatred of wolves is growing, level headed Americans have a responsibility to encourage a more balanced view.

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Volatile Climate Rips A Lilac In Two

jclifford 4/26/2012
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The lilac was ripped apart by the erratic climate.

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Oil Industry Gets What It Paid For With Cory Gardner Drilling Bill

The Green Man 4/25/2012
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No industry has given as much money to Congressman Gardner as the oil and gas industry. No wonder Cory Gardner just introduced legislation to create more profit opportunities for oil and gas corporations – using public lands.

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The Hunted Wolf

The Green Man 4/23/2012
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Wolves in Germany, Washington and Wisconsin are being hunted down and killed.

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Car Exhaust Makes You Fat Even If You Never Even Ride In A Car

The Green Man 4/22/2012
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Air pollution from cars is making America’s children fatter, and killing far more people than traffic accidents. So, why isn’t the Department of Homeland Security on the case?

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Barack Obama Attacks Polar Bears Just Before Earth Day

The Green Man 4/21/2012
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This Earth Day, you’ll heard Democrats talking about how horrible Mitt Romney would be for the environment, and it’s true – as President, Mitt Romney would support anti-environmental policies. What you won’t hear Democrats talking about is the wonderful environmental record of Barack Obama. That’s because Obama has a terrible environmental record

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All Of The Above Insanity From Congressman Scott Tipton

The Green Man 4/20/2012
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An All Of The Above energy plan isn’t a plan at all. It’s merely a statement that our country should take action, and do something, do anything at all, without consideration of the consequences. It’s a policy to say that whenever anyone comes up with a plan for energy production, it should be approved without question.

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Penn State University to Hold a Symposium on Confronting Climate Change Deniers

Jim Cook 4/11/2012
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Time was that climate scientists would ignore people who denied the existence of global warming, hoping they would just go away. It seems that times have changed. Penn State University’s Center for Sustainability and its Science, Technology, and Society Program …

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Barnes & Noble Publishes On Illegal Rainforest Paper

The Green Man 4/11/2012
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A Greenpeace investigation has found that the giant bookstore chain has been publishing books using paper made from trees illegally harvested on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where there are many endangered animals, including tigers and orangutans.

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