The Profits Over People Pattern

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 [...]

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Tar Sands Fighters to U.S. News Media: WAKE UP!

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 [...]

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Daryl Hannah: Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia

(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? [...]

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Congratulations Van Jones! Former RAN Board member is now White House Green Jobs Advisor

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 [...]

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The Spectre of Nationalization

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 [...]

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Obama F***ing Changed His Lightbulbs

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 [...]

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Canada Wastes No Time in Pushing Dirty Oil on Obama

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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Now is Our Time

Michael Brune, RAN’s Executive Director, just sent out this email asking all of us to bring our excitement and inspiration from yesterday’s election to a discussion around how we should move forward together. Take a look and use the comments to add your voice. Michael and other RAN staff will join in as the discussion [...]

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5 Dirty Aspects of “Clean” Coal

Written by Sarah Lozanov Published on October 9th, 2008 – Posted in alternative energy, carbon emissions http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/09/5-dirty-aspects-of-clean-coal/ Clean coal has been getting a lot of attention lately. Both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama consider it to be an important piece in their energy plans. Even the recent $900 billion bailout package included $1.5 billion for [...]

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