At G20, Merkel and May push trump to stay in Paris Climate Agreement
It’s not too late to bring the US back into the global mainstream on climate change action, and with the US outnumbered 19 to 1 at the G20, world leaders are hoping they can convince US President...
View ArticleCali Gov Jerry Brown announces Global Climate Summit
While President Trump was blowing off the G20 session on climate change to spend more than 2 hours chilling with Vlad Putin, California Governor Jerry Brown crashed the party in Hamburg (via video) to...
View ArticleJerry Brown, climate leader or climate charlatan?
After hearing California Governor Jerry Brown’s announcement that he would convene a Global Climate Summit next year in California, the mainstream media responded with fawning puff pieces portraying...
View ArticleG20 Communique is a strong path to climate change action and sustainability...
It was a victory for climate change action and support for the Paris Climate Agreement, for sure. But the G20 Communique at the end of the Hamburg summit was much more than that: A statement about...
View ArticleBringing salmon home to Cali – natives raise $60,000 on GoFundMe
California’s native Winnemem Wintu tribe has been working tirelessly to restore the native salmon to their Northern California streams and rivers. And they’ve nearly reached their GoFundMe goal of...
View ArticleFrance will cut back on nuclear power by shutting down up to 17 aging reactors
Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot says that France may shutter as many as 17 nuclear power reactors by the year 2025. During an interview on RTL radio, Hulot noted that the government of...
View ArticleOh, snap! Trillion-ton Larsen C iceberg breaks off Antarctic ice shelf
The biggest iceberg in recorded history has broken off of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, sending a trillion tons of ice into shipping lanes. If only somebody could tow this Larsen C iceberg to...
View ArticleBig agriculture’s awful GROW water bill passes house. Dems will fight it in...
The bill to take control of California’s water away from California has passed the House. HR 23, the “Gaining Responsibility on Water Act of 2017,” aka the GROW water bill, passed on a near-party-line...
View ArticleTrump admin approves first new arctic oil drilling. Thanks, Trump!
It hasn’t even been two years since Shell abandoned it’s stupid and expensive arctic oil drilling campaign. But the Trump administration – that never met a stupid idea it wasn’t gung-ho in favor of –...
View ArticleDon Blankenship: From coal baron to disgraced jailbird to… the Senate?
Normally one runs for Senate FIRST and only AFTERWARD goes to jail, but these are not normal times. In yet another sign of the total destruction of norms and even human decency in the Trump era,...
View ArticleNew White House comm director Scarmucci is a climate change believer
This is encouraging. Here’s what new White House communications director Anthony Scarmucci has to say (or rather, Tweet) about climate change: You can take steps to combat climate change without...
View ArticleHouse strips State Dept of cross-border pipeline approval (Think: Keystone XL)
Even though Hillary Clinton is no longer in charge of the State Department, some in the GOP continue to hold a grudge. Which is why they voted to removed the State Department from the approvals chain...
View ArticleTrump threatens Alaska drilling and mining as payback for Murkowski’s...
Trump has big plans to help big oil in Alaska – including Arctic offshore drilling, the Salmon-destroying Pebble Mine, and of course, opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for more energy...
View ArticleRecess appointment: GOP Senate will block Trump from replacing Jeff Sessions
There has been a lot of concern that President Trump might take advantage of the Senate’s upcoming recess to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and use a back-door “recess appointment” to replace him....
View ArticleShell CEO says he’s trading in his diesel for an electric vehicle
Ben Van Beurden, chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest oil companies in the world, says when he gets a new car this September it will be a Mercedes S-Class 500e, a plug-in...
View ArticleCheck out these fun details for the Tesla Model 3 (EG: You keep your key in...
Now that the first Tesla Model 3 has been released to the highways of America, and it has officially been shared with the world media, the floodgates of fun details have opened up. By Kyle Field With...
View ArticleInconvenient Sequel: Al Gore tells Stephen Colbert there’s still hope – if...
There’s only one guy who can have this introduction: “My guest tonight has won a Grammy, a Nobel Peace Prize, and the US popular vote (for President).” Only Al Gore, appearing on Stephen Colbert to...
View ArticleHow the Clean Energy Revolution is giving Al Gore hope for the future
Are you worried about climate change? You should be. But you should also be hopeful. As his new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” opens nationwide, Al Gore reminds us that the clean energy...
View ArticleIt’s high time the MSM presented BOTH sides of the Eclipse Debate! (Snark)
“Many people have only listened to one side of the eclipse debate—the pro-eclipse establishment. They will tell you, as if it’s a proven fact, that there will be an eclipse of the sun on August 21.” By...
View ArticleTrump admin won’t slash Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument
One more piece of good news: No cuts to the pristine Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument. As part of their war on anything not involving drilling or mining, the Trump administration has been...
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