Subsidizing Earth’s Demise: US Taxpayers Forced to Prop Up Dirty Energy Industry
In the midst of a hurricane season that shows just how expensive inaction on climate change can be, two new...
Category: Environment
Top Environmental Democrat Busts Trump’s Scam of Exploiting Public Land for Private Use
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Ranking Member of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, busted Trump on his secret plan to use...
Wind Power Saved USA Tens of Billions of Dollars, Study Finds
A study done by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and published by Nature Energy in August finds that wind power in...
Trump Walks Away And Refuses To Answer When Asked If Hurricanes Are Related To Climate Change
When he was asked by reporters if the hurricanes are related to climate change, Donald Trump didn’t answer and walked...
Before Harvey Hit, Trump Voided A Federal Rule To Protect Infrastructure From Future Flooding
President Donald Trump, who will visit Texas on Tuesday for a first-hand look at Hurricane Harvey’s deluge of rainfall, flooding...
Exxon Mobil Misled Public On Climate Change For 40 Years, Study Reveals
Exxon Mobil Corp. deliberately deceived the public about the dangers of climate change for four decades, a new Harvard University study...
Rooftop Solar Is Growing Like A Weed, Despite Fossil Fuel Billionaires Trying To Crush It
Thom Hartmann talks about the growing interest and support for residential solar power applications, and all the way dirty fossil...
California Governor Jerry Brown Trolls Climate Change Denier Trump At G20
While President Trump was blowing off the G20 session on climate change to spend more than 2 hours chilling with Vlad Putin,...
Fossil Fuel Industry Conspires To Corrupt Elementary School Curriculum
The most sinister force in public education in America’s heartland goes by the rather benign name of the Oklahoma Energy...
Prince Secretly Donated $25 Million To Help Solar Power Startups
It’s been a little over a year since the world lost Prince, but his influence is still strong as ever and...
Republicans Forsake Morality for Money In Climate Accord Exit
Always follow the money. It was never about the coal miners whose jobs are disappearing due to automation and the...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Spent Heavily To Put A Climate Change Denier In Charge Of EPA
A new report shows that the Koch Brothers spent part of a $3.1 million fund to help get Scott Pruitt...
Reality Check: Today’s Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal
President Trump has promised to revive the coal industry and double down on fossil fuels, creating “so many energy jobs,”...
Dow Chemical Gets White House To Ignore Science And Allow Dangerous Pesticide
Dow Chemical gave $1 million to help pay for Donald Trump’s inauguration, and now they’re hoping that the administration will...
Trump and His Fossil Fuel Buddies Can’t Make The Clean Energy Economy Disappear
While President Trump’s executive order turning back many Obama-era climate change policies is great optics for his energy policy conservative...
Trump Enriches Fossil Fuel Polluters
At this juncture in Trump’s America, it might be a chore to find an American who isn’t aware that the...
Solar Spring Break 2017 Offers Hands-On Training While Installing In Under-Served Communities
Spring break is coming! Spring break is coming! But instead of going to the beach, or the mountains, or wherever...
Trump to Gut the EPA in Order to Give More Money to a Wasteful Pentagon
In order to fund an unnecessary $54 billion increase in U.S. defense spending, Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to...
New Exxon CEO Echoes Rex Tillerson’s Self-Serving Disinformation On Climate Science
Darren Woods, the new chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp., mirrored his predecessor’s skeptical view on climate change in his...
EPA’s Mission Subverted By Trump Choice Scott Pruitt
The US Environmental Protection Agency has almost immediately been castrated and had any legitimacy it once had undermined after Scott...
Big Oil Gets Its Man As EPA Chief
The Senate narrowly confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency chief on Friday, despite Democrats’ calls to delay the...
Solar & Wind Jobs Growing 12x Faster Than US Economy But Crazy Donald Wants To Kill Them
Would you rather be a coal miner or a solar power technician? Bad news if you answered (correctly) that life...
Trump Proposes an Energy Plan That Puts Americans Last
The new boss waited about 1.2 nanoseconds before announcing his America First Energy Plan. Environmental groups weighed in a heartbeat...
ExxonMobil Sends Its Boss Tillerson Off To D.C. With $180M Golden Parachute to Hustle for Big Oil
ExxonMobil has agreed to provide an investment package worth about $180 million to its outgoing chief executive, Rex Tillerson, letting...
Pipeline 150 Miles from Standing Rock Spews More Than 176,000 Gallons of Oil Into Water Supply
Echoing the same dangers that water protectors warned about the Dakota Access Pipeline, another pipeline in the Western part of...
An Anti-Environmentalist Trump Presidency Would Likely Mean 3.4 Billion Tons More Carbon Emissions
A new analysis of policies promised by US Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump by Lux Research has shown...
Journalist Amy Goodman Invokes 1st Amendment Rights Against N. Dakota Pipeline Company
October 13, 2016 – Award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, charged with criminal trespassing for filming an attack on Native American-led pipeline...
600 Megawatt Colorado Wind Farm Blows Past ALEC Roadblock
The powerful lobbying organization ALEC has been trying to trip up the US wind industry for years, but it looks...
Exxon Mobil Sued Over Climate Change Cover-Up
The environmental advocacy group Conservation Law Foundation has made good on its threat to sue Exxon Mobil Corp., filing what it says is the...
Community Solar Project to Retrain Underemployed and Unemployed Coal Miners
San Diego-based Solar Alliance Energy plans to build a 500 kW community solar generation and battery storage project in Southern...
Oil Industry Unleashes Attack Dogs and Pepper Spray on Native American Protestors
For the second time in as many weeks, Americans are learning that their 1st Amendment right to free expression, including...
Koch-Republicans Hope the National Park Service’s 100th Anniversary Will Be Its Last
In normal circumstances when an anniversary arrives the farthest thing from anyone’s mind is that it may be the last,...
Donald Trump’s Energy Proposals Cater to Fossil Fuel Billionaires at the Expense of Humanity
Donald Trump told the Detroit Economic Conference this week that he will propose “a complete rethinking of our energy policy.” What...
New Koch-Funded Group Aims to Promote the “Positives” of Dirty Fuels
A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling US Forward made its public debut at the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, where the organization’s President and CEO Charles Drevna gave...
ExxonMobil Pays Lip Service To Environmentalism While Contributing To Republicans Who Block All Efforts To Combat Climate Change
Over the course of the past couple of years some of the giants in the oil industry have intimated that...
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...
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...
