Bush Finally Out Of The Closet As A Complete Industry Handmaiden

Seeded on Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:30 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Global warming - okay maybe it does exist, but do I give a ---- ? I've got friends to think about, friends running big oil companies, friends in manufacturing. Come on folks, get real.

politics, environment, george-bush, climate-change, oil-industry

Air Pollution Major Impact on Honeybee Demise

Seeded on Tue May 6, 2008 6:02 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Honeybees are the new Canaries in the Mine; when our polluting ways overwhelm the floral scents which honeybees use to detect food, that pretty much sums it all up.

science, honeybees, pollution, hive-collapse, environment

Salmon the new Canaries in the Mine - New York Times

Seeded on Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:29 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Fish don't lie. Does Agribusiness? Karl Rove? The Salmon population is being decimated by corporate leeches and their pals in D.C. As goes the Salmon, so goes the ocean, so go we....

politics, salmon, karl-rove, bush, agribusiness, rivers

Water Bottlers Sucking up US Aquifers - Environment - MSNBC.com

Seeded on Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:42 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

We've pretty much sucked the Colorado river down to a stream and now the big corporate bottlers, such as Nestle, are hunting down your favorite trout streams too.

science, water, corporate, california, aquifers

States sue EPA over global warming - Climate Change- msnbc.com

Seeded on Thu Apr 3, 2008 10:54 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

18 States, 2 cities and 11 environmental groups unite to sue the Bush Administration to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebukes their inaction on global warming. Congratulations

politics, bush, states, global-warming, supreme-court

Protecting All Waters - New York Times

Seeded on Fri Mar 7, 2008 1:36 PM EST (The New York Times)

Half of the waters in the United States are at risk of pollution or destructive development because of a wrongheaded Supreme Court decision in 2006. Who ya gonna call?

politics, clean-water, supreme-court, water-pollution

The Senate Shills for Big Oil - New York Times

Seeded on Mon Mar 3, 2008 1:32 PM EST (The New York Times)

Even Bush got it right (in 2005) about big oil no longer needing tax breaks - although he seems to have forgotten his own words. What could have caused that? At any rate, wake up Senate! and do right by alternative energy.

politics, bush, senate, alternative-energy, tax-breaks, global-warming, left-of-center

Whales in the Navy's Way - New York Times

Seeded on Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:23 PM EST (The New York Times)

Bush rejects Judge's plan to protect whales from Navy sonar in California waters. Could this man possibly be any less aware???

us-news, bush, whales, california, marine-mammals, environment, disaster

China's e-waste nightmare worsening - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:55 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

China now produces more than 1 million tons of e-waste each year, said Jamie Choi, a toxics campaigner with Greenpeace China in Beijing and much of it comes from the US.

politics, e-waste, china, pollution

Where's That Energy Bill? - New York Times

Seeded on Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:52 PM EST (The New York Times)

The Senate Democratic leaders are advocating a proposal to House negotiators and environmental leaders that would leave renewable energy entirely out of energy legislation.

politics, energy-bill, congress, pelosi, wind, solar, environment, energy, reid

The Future is Drying Up - New York Times

Seeded on Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:49 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Everything's on the line right now, and suddenly we're all neighbors sharing one big backyard called Earth. Who's watering the lawn?

science, climate, drought, global-warming, american-west

Wind, Solar and Biomass Energy Today

Seeded on Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:27 AM EDT (NRDC website)

Some facts about wind power for everyone to contemplate and wonder - why it is that the US govt has shelled out 35 billion dollars over the past 30 years to cover the medical expenses of coal miners who suffer from black lung disease when the downsides of wind power are practical …

science, wind-power, coal-mining, renewable-energy, alternative-energy

National Survey: In Age of Global Warming Politics, Consumers Dogged by 'Clueless' Factor: Financial News - Yahoo!Finance

Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:26 PM EDT (Yahoo! Finance)

This is a very sad state of affairs, when 52% of the nation cannot name even one form of renewable energy. Just think what those billions of dollars spent in Iraq could do for our educational system!

us-news, american-consumers, alternative-energy-awareness, global-warming, coal-industry

EPA approves new pesticide despite scientists' concerns - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Tue Oct 9, 2007 12:05 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

When the EPA is finding highly toxic substances pass muster, it's clearly time to re-examine the EPA. How do you take your methyl iodide - straight up and deadly or with water and only slightly DNA altering?

politics, pesticides, epa, pollution, toxic

Antibiotic Runoff - New York Times

Seeded on Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:36 AM EDT (The New York Times)

If you're gonna bite the hog, better find out where it comes from, or it might bite you back.

science, antibiotics, antibiotic-run-off, pollution, hog-farming

Mexico's Plutocracy Thrives on Robber-Baron Concessions - New York Times

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:37 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Where has all the money gone? The pockets of bigger and bigger billionaires; surprising to discover that Mexico has the biggest of them all....

politics, billionaires, mexico, oligarchy, plutocracy

EPA Officials Take More Than $1.6 Million in Trips

Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:40 PM EDT

From www.politicalmoneyline.com :

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lobbyists, epa, monsanto, dow

Turn off Your Computer - Eliminate Greenhouse Gases

Seeded on Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:25 PM EDT (blogs.business2.com)

If the 61 percent of the U.S.'s 18 million university students who use desktop computers activate their computers' power-management program, they could eliminate 1.8 million tons of greenhouse gases - the equivalent of taking 350,000 cars off the road - and save $206 million on t …

science, greenhouse-gases, global-warming

Forget the States — Let the Regions Pick the Candidates - New York Times

Seeded on Wed Aug 8, 2007 12:06 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Interesting concept - to rotate primaries every four years, and stagger them more sensibly...

politics, primaries, presidential-race

Giuliani's Daughter Reportedly Backs Obama|Memphis News

Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 4:17 PM EDT (CNET News.com)

Gee, when Giuliani's Harvard bound daughter breaks ranks and opts for Obama over her Dad - anything's possible! Go, Caroline!

politics, obama, guiliani, guilianis-daughter

Weapons given to Iraq are missing - Washington Post - MSNBC.com

Seeded on Sun Aug 5, 2007 11:23 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq.

politics, missing-weapons, iraq, petraeus, ak-47, bush-administration

Plea to gardeners: keep a little patch unclipped to help save bumblebees | Science | The Guardian

Seeded on Sun Aug 5, 2007 8:29 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Neglected corners and undisturbed areas crucial to survival of pollinator

science, honeybees, environment

Cheney's 2001 Energy Task Force? Loaded Dice - New York Times

Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:02 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Are we surprised there were no environmentalists invited to the party? This administration has been gambling - with the entire planet tossed into the pot.

politics, white-house, cheney, energy, bush-administration

Superfund Action Declines Radically During Bush Administration

Seeded on Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:38 PM EDT (ScienceBlogs)

Despite prodigious effort, still 25% of Americans live within 3 miles of a Superfund-designated contaminated site... Moreover, 25 million Americans live within 10 miles of a site where potential human exposure to contaminants is not yet under control.

politics, superfund, bush-administration, earth-news, newsvine-science, left-of-center, megasites-cleanup, hazardous-substance-superfund, superfund-equity, ralph-hall