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...
Category: Environment
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...
Thom Hartmann Discusses the Corporate War On Solar Power
Thom Hartmann and Brendan Fischer discuss the war waged by ALEC, the Kochs, and the Waltons against the ability for...
ALEC Sharpens Attack on Environmental Safeguards
After being accused of “literally lying” about climate change by one of its own high-profile business members, excoriated for being...
Leaked: The Oil Lobby’s Plan to Kill Off California’s Climate Law
You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of...
Report Documents Walmart Heirs’ Efforts to Destroy Rooftop Solar Revolution
The Walton family—who, as heirs to the Walmart fortune, have more wealth than 42 percent of American families combined—are impeding...
Robin Hood Tax rally to kick off People’s Climate March
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the People’s Climate March...
Charles Koch Personally Founded a Group Protecting Oil Industry Handouts
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
How ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance...
Interior Dept Blows Off Koch Stranglehold On Offshore Wind Power
The good news for US Atlantic coast offshore wind power just keeps rolling along. Earlier this year, renewable energy fans...
Pennsylvania Sacrificing Public Health, Environment to Advance Fossil Fuel Industry: Report
On the heels of news that natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale hit an all-time high in July, as...
ALEC Attacks Americans Who Use Solar
As the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) prepares to meet in Dallas this week, the Center for Media and Democracy...
Big Oil Threatens Maine City After Tar Sands Export Ban
Big Oil has always been a bad, bad loser. And it is therefore no surprise that it has threatened to...
Koch-Funded Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Limits Public Chemical Disclosure After Deadly Explosion
Shortly after the anniversary of the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, wounded 226, and upended a large...
Why The Fossil Fuel Industry Hates Wind Power
Wind energy has a significant impact on wholesale prices, particularly in those peak demand events when fossil fuel generators used...
Fossil Fuel Front Groups Attack Clean Energy Policies
Fossil fuel and utility interests, concerned about the rise of cheap clean energy, are financing attacks on pro–clean energy policies,...
How the Koch Brothers Stole Ohio
Renewable energy took a major hit in Ohio last week. Republican Gov. John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 310,...
Krugman: In The Real War On Coal, The Mining Industry Won And Workers Lost
Paul Krugman has another column in the New York Times explaining that slashing carbon pollution has a small economic impact...
Koch Brothers, ALEC, Grover Norquist Target Solar Energy
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
Chicago Nurses Vs. Koch Petcoke Piles
Holy axis of evil, Batman! A dramatic fossil fuel threefer is brewing in Chicago, as mountains of the carbon-saturated fuel...
Big Coal is trying to jail climate activists just for speaking out — sign the petition!
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns are working. They’re working so well that Big Coal is scared and striking back, frantically trying...
Koch Brothers Face Lawsuit Over Chicago’s Toxic Black Dust
Environmentalists are planning to take billionaires Charles and David Koch to court, alleging the brothers’ companies are responsible for polluting...
Koch-backed lobbying group’s aggressive new plan to take down the EPA, revealed
The Koch-backed, right-wing lobbying group, ALEC, is planning a coordinated attack on the EPA’s plan to limit carbon emissions from...
The Koch Attack on Solar Energy
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
ALEC and the Koch Brothers Fight Solar Energy with Surcharges
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
Koch-Funded Groups Fuel Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine
Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” Now the...
