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President Obama just signed the debt deal into law. Just in time too — there were about 10 hours to spare before the midnight deadline, after which our government would most likely go into default. As bad as default would have been, the deal doesn’t appear to be a whole lot better. As Andy Kroll [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 8, 2011
When faced with catastrophic environmental degradation — in your own community, no less — calling out the perpetrators and demanding accountability from elected officials is often not enough, as we all know. You have to get out in the streets and demand change. After pleading for transparency and accountability from the Obama Administration in the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 7, 2011
Last Thursday, a federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah convicted activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for disrupting the auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land that was being sold off by the Bush Administration for oil and gas drilling in 2008. Tim’s act of civil disobedience has been widely heralded [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 7, 2011
In what has become something of a pattern, the Obama administration recently took a bold new step to protect our planet at the same time that it was taking a giant step backwards. Hot on the heels of the announcement about the EPA’s plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries and fossil-fueled power [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 10, 2009
Over the past decade, as oil prices have risen ever higher, oil companies have begun a massive – and massively destructive – project of tearing Canada’s boreal forest to pieces, in order to get at a layer of sand that contains 10% oil. To get the oil out, they need three barrels of natural gas [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
(Posted by Branden for Daryl who joined RAN’s Michael Brune and others to protest MTR in West Virginia last week.) Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America? Well, have you ever heard of MTR? [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
Author-activist tapped as White House ‘green’ jobs adviser – NYTimes.com. Van Jones. What an amazing human being he is. One of the most passionate, articulate speakers I’ve ever had the pleasure to see and to meet. Not only does he have an impressive array of accomplishments to his name (Yale Law grad, co-founder of the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
It wasn’t that long ago (I think we can count it in months actually) that the terms ‘nationalize’ and ‘banks’ just wouldn’t ever have been found in the same sentence. Ever. Check out this whole article in the NY Times entitled: “Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look”. One small excerpt: “In an interview Sunday on [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 10, 2008
I just saw this on Huffington post and I had to share. Newsweek got a great quote from Barack Obama on what goes through his head when he gets stupid questions about global warming during presidential debates: I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 6, 2008
A report from the Globe and Mail today underscores just how important dirty oil is to Canada’s designs on the US energy markets: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing to strike a joint climate-change pact with president-elect Barack Obama, an initiative that would seek to protect Alberta’s oil sands projects from potentially tough new U.S. [...]
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