Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
Remember the $20 billion compensation fund that President Obama got BP to agree to? The money would be held in escrow to assure that the thousands of people hurt – both economically and physically – by the Gulf oil disaster would be compensated. Well, it turns out BP has been dragging its feet. And hasn’t [...]
Last week the NRDC (National Resource Defense Council) and PAN (Pesticide Action Network) sued the EPA demanding that it ban a particular insecticide called Chlorpyrifos. I have written to some of my NRDC contacts to ask: “why chlorpyrifos?” Is Chlorpyrifos As Scary As They Say? Although you would never know it from reading the uncritical [...]
CO2 emission estimates based on coal and fossil fuel production are pessimistic at best, says new research out of the University of Texas at Austin. A new study by Tad Patzek, chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin, has shown that CO2 emission estimates used for government [...]
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy, has a new book out: Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. The founder of climate activist group 350.org, McKibben is one of the leading voices in the fight to change the way people do business in order to turn around the [...]
New research out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sheds light on the hidden impact of foreign oil on America’s environment. Most statistics concerning the emission of greenhouse gas from the use of oil refers to emissions taking place within the United States. But what is not included are the emissions from the US military operations [...]
(From FailDrill.com) A group of coast scientists – experts who teach at universities from Maine to Hawaii – have drafted a letter to Incident Commander Thad Allen, calling on him to cancel the sand berms and other “massive re-engineering” projects. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal had championed the sand berms as a way of keeping oil [...]
For the first time in over 50 years Arctic waters will be the subject of a mapping expedition. What I want to know is, why? Arctic ice has been receding at a rapid and alarming rate over the past decade. We’ve seen the Northwest Passage open for the first time in recorded and memorable history, [...]
A new exploratory study out of George Mason University has found that people will care more about climate change if it is framed as a public health problem. The authors of the study interviewed 70 Americans and had the respondents read a public health framed essay on climate change. Their results found that, on the [...]
(From DrillFail.com) Late Sunday, Incident Commander Thad Allen notified BP that seepage had been detected in the ocean floor near the well. It could be a leak from the sub-surface portion of the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo well, which would mean the cap – currently in a testing phase – would not be able to keep holding pressure. [...]
BP concluded 48 hours of testing on the new cap over their busted well, and the results are good. The oil flow has stopped, pressure is stable, and there’s no evidence – so far – that the cap has blown a new leak in the underground well. “As we continue to see success in the [...]
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