As The World Burns, The Rich Cruise In Luxury Through A Melting Arctic
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
Category: Environment
The Oil Industry Wrote The Book On How To Burn Up the Planet
A new discovery into the true corruption of the oil industry and it’s relationship to Big Tobacco is sending shockwaves...
President Obama Announces Solar-Boosting Initiative
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a series of measures aimed at boosting access to solar energy—a move one environmental...
Tennessee Thumbs Nose At Reactionary Koch Bros, Hosts Cutting-Edge Solar Energy Storage Demo
The great state of Tennessee is on the cutting edge of new energy storage tech, thanks partly to its role...
Americans Subsidize The Coal, Gas, And Oil Industries To The Tune Of $2,180 Per American Per Year
Ah, society — takes us decades to turn a simple, life-saving corner. Subsidizing fossil fuels in the 21st century has...
Obama Criticizes Republicans In Congress For Obstructing Climate Action
Over the weekend, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park. He used the occasion to slam congressional Republicans for their intransigent...
DuPont Knowingly Poured Poison in the Ohio River and Turned a Blind Eye
America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on RT’s Redacted Tonight to discuss DuPont’s history with a deadly product known as C8,...
Exxon’s CEO Convinces Shareholders that Profit is More Important than Human Survival
After a long battle to even get on the agenda for ExxonMobil’s 2016 Annual Meeting, the company’s shareholders on Wednesday...
Corporate Fossil Fuel Lobbying Efforts Mirror Tobacco Industry
We hear a lot these days about how fossil fuel companies are spending large amounts of money to influence policy...
Petition Calls For Employers To Offer Fossil-Free Retirement Options
Many in the US are at least partly reliant upon employer-offered retirement planning for their post-employment financial well-being. With that...
Instead of Lobbying, Utilities Could Have Doubled US Solar Capacity
The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute just released a report analyzing the top 25 US investor-owned electric utilities, and one...
Oil Companies Have Lied About Climate Change For Decades While Sitting On The Proof
A 48 year old report recently unearthed reveals that oil executives knew about the effects that the extraction and burning...
Mormon Republicans Continue Bundy’s War On Americans’ Public Lands
Nearly two years ago when a Mormon rancher who hates the federal government he had been stealing from for 20...
Koch Brothers Can’t Stop Trying To Kill People
How much damage can two individuals do? If those two people are the Koch Brothers (pronounced “coke”) the answer is,...
Koch Brothers and Their Front Group ALEC Attempt to Destroy Nation’s Solar Industry
The fight over solar net metering in Nevada just got personal last Friday, with a proposed new amendment tacked on...
House Republicans Accused of Harassing Climate Scientists
Leading scientists have accused a Republican-led committee of subjecting climate researchers to politically motivated “harassment” amid an increasingly fractious investigation...
For Exxon Mobil, Profit Is More Important Than Life Itself
It may be hard to accept, but a single company may have set back all of humanity. Had Exxon Mobil...
Vile Koch Brothers Spend Millions To Eliminate Solar Power in Sunny Florida
With the nickname “The Sunshine State,” it would make sense for Florida to be a leader in solar energy in...
Environmental groups call for investigation of Exxon for ‘misleading public’ on climate
Leading US environmental campaigners have joined a diverse line-up of pressure groups to demand a federal investigation into allegations that...
Congressional Republicans Target Scientists For Harassment and Intimidation
Science is broadly defined as a systematic enterprise that gathers, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations...
Duke Energy: Scheming with the Billionaire Koch Brothers to Kill Solar Power
“Duke Energy is front and center in a new report connecting the company to a national network of utility interest...
Exxon’s climate change denial may warrant prosecution
Members of Congress have asked for a federal investigation into whether ExxonMobil broke the law by intentionally obscuring the truth...
Koch-Backed Republicans Want To Eliminate America’s National Parks
It is hardly a secret that Republicans wholly-support and agree with their masters, the Koch brothers, that every sector of...
Right Wing Koch Brothers Go to War Against Solar Energy
The Koch brothers, Duke Energy and Arizona Public Service are among 12 special interest groups waging aggressive anti-solar campaigns across...
Corporate Climate Deniers/Sponsors May Be Investigated Under RICO
Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco’s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes… Read more…
Cities Could Save $17 Trillion By Reducing CO2 Emissions
Making cities greener could save a lot of, well, green, according to a new report. The report, published Tuesday by...
Top Oil Executives Get Rich While Destroying the Climate
A new study has found that top oil and gas executives receive massive bonuses for making decisions that ultimately have...
Colorado Invests in Community Solar Projects
In what is described as being the first statewide initiative of its kind, Colorado has awarded a grant of $1.2...
Greed-head Charles Koch Objects to Being Called Out by President Obama
It would be a stretch to find a person over the age of seven that has never heard, or cannot...
Congressional Democrats Support Pope Francis On Climate Change
A group of liberal Senate Democrats turned the tables on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today by introducing a resolution supporting...
Obama to Veto Any Republican Plan to Gut Climate Change Rule
The White House is promising that any Republican attacks on the president’s new climate change rule will be met with...
Behemoth ExxonMobil: Funneling Millions to Climate Science Deniers
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson says oil and natural gas will still meet 60 percent of global energy demand in 2040...
President Obama’s Goal: Make Solar Power For All A Reality
For a long time, everybody thought of solar panels as something only rich people could afford. But when you think...
Bernie Sanders Plans to Extend Solar Energy To The Poor
Sen. Bernie Sanders hit the Koch brothers where it counts by proposing new legislation that make solar energy more accessible...
Spanish anti-austerity party and US economist advance green energy
The Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos has teamed up with a US economist to launch a green energy plan that they...
Renewable Energy Producing More Jobs Than Fossil Fuel Sector
A new report has determined that investments in energy-efficient and renewable energy sources yield more jobs for a set amount...
Our Economy Would Work Much Better by Making the Polluters Pay
Instead of investing in dirty fuels, let’s start charging polluters for poisoning our skies – and then invest the revenue...
Report Shows The Oil Industry Benefits From $5.3 Trillion in Taxpayer Subsidies Annually
According to the oil industry, the very idea of ending billions-of-dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the profitable industry is un-American;...
Tide Turning Against Koch Front Group ALEC In The Renewable Energy Battle
Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina. A bill to freeze the state’s...
The IRS Is Investigating The Koch Brothers’ Illegal Tax-Deductions Denying Climate Change
There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives...
Obama Unveils Smart Plan To Combat Climate Change While Training 75,000 Vets For Jobs
The President said: “I am announcing a new goal to train 75,000 workers to enter the solar industry by 2020....
Koch Front Group ALEC Threatens Progressives With A Lawsuit For Calling Out Its Lies
Most people have a very well-defined threshold that no-one dares cross when it comes to accusing them of some character...
Climate-sceptic US senator given funds by BP political action committee
One of America’s most powerful and outspoken opponents of climate change regulation received election campaign contributions that can be traced...
Evidence Koch Brothers Funding Climate Change Denial
WASHINGTON (AP) — The industrial conglomerate run by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is refusing to provide Democratic...
Koch Brothers’ Tar Sands Connection Revealed
A map released by the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization (IFG) shows that the U.S. billionaire Koch brothers own...
Climate Change Denier’s Research Is Funded By Oil Interests
For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of...
