“It’s great that Mark Zuckerberg is promoting immigration reform. Too bad he has to do so by echoing big oil’s agenda,” Daniel Weiss, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, told POLITICO. Continue reading Facebook CEO on enviro sh*t list for supporting Keystone XL, fracking
Category: Green Hell
Green Hell: “We’re blinded by next door’s solar panels”
Mr Phipps, 51, says his three-bedroom detached home is lit up “like a tanning salon” for several hours a day when the sun shines. Continue reading Green Hell: “We’re blinded by next door’s solar panels”
20 Years Ago: 4-25-93 — Al Gore reports $20,000 in royalties, takes $4,400 depletion allowance from zinc mining on family farm
“Somehow, despite his ecological principles and concern with tax fairness, Gore manages to deposit the check and take the depletion allowance.” Continue reading 20 Years Ago: 4-25-93 — Al Gore reports $20,000 in royalties, takes $4,400 depletion allowance from zinc mining on family farm
John Kerry: We must ‘safeguard our God-given natural resources… for future generations’ — So who gets to use them and when?
Joe Romm: ‘I don’t worry about the earth… Concern over the earth is elitist’
“…something people can afford to spend their time on when every other need is met.” Continue reading Joe Romm: ‘I don’t worry about the earth… Concern over the earth is elitist’
Celebs on the enviro sh*t list
“The green movement has seen its share of celebrity support… However, there are still a few holdouts in Tinsel Town and across the nation.” Continue reading Celebs on the enviro sh*t list
Enviro writer in meltdown after Senate gun vote; Tweets ‘F*ck Max Baucus’, Calls Mark Pryor a ‘colossal a**hole’
Grist.org’s Dave “Nuremberg-Trials-for-Skeptics” Roberts has rude comments about Democrat Senators voting against the gun control bill today. Continue reading Enviro writer in meltdown after Senate gun vote; Tweets ‘F*ck Max Baucus’, Calls Mark Pryor a ‘colossal a**hole’
Ex-UK Science Advisor: Environmental safety rules have reached ‘mad’ levels because of a failure to understand the difference between risk and hazard
Environmental safety rules have reached “mad” levels because of a failure to understand the difference between risk and hazard, the Government’s former chief scientific adviser has said. Continue reading Ex-UK Science Advisor: Environmental safety rules have reached ‘mad’ levels because of a failure to understand the difference between risk and hazard
Billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham: ‘Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership’
A billionaire proves the Peter Principle. Comments by Grantham in an interview by The Guardian. Continue reading Billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham: ‘Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership’
Lisa Jackson steals credit for environmental justice at EPA
The bogus concept was actually brought to EPA in 1990 (during the administration of George H.W. Bush) in the form of the Workgroup on Environmental Equity and expanded into an office of its own in 1992. Continue reading Lisa Jackson steals credit for environmental justice at EPA
Bob Woodward: Dinner with Al Gore ‘taxing’ and ‘unpleasant’
“He thinks he invented [reporting] also.” Imagine how the masseuse felt. Continue reading Bob Woodward: Dinner with Al Gore ‘taxing’ and ‘unpleasant’