Residents of New York state need not worry, there will be no fracking in New York. The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) banned the practice by issuing the final document needed to ban the practice. The state DEC has studied the controversial practice for seven years leading up to yesterday’s ban of high-volume […]
According to Republican Senator James Inhofe, severe winter weather in Washington D.C. is a sign that climate change isn’t real. He made this controversial point yet again on the senate floor this past Thursday by tossing a snowball to another senator. This is not the first time that Inhofe has used winter weather to attempt to […]
There is no road that leads to the tiny town of Kivalina and soon there may be no people. This Alaskan whaling village is surrounded by ice, which due to climate change, has become far too thin to protect it from the waves that could crash across the village. “Global warming has caused us so […]
Burlington, Vermont has set the standard for the nation by converting all of its power sources into renewable ones. The city had a choice several years ago, to go the natural gas route or to choose renewable resources. Burlington chose right. Instead of going the easy route, the 42,000 person city of Burlington focused its energy […]
Today, President Obama vetoed the bill that would allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built. The measure has been heralded by the conservative-dominated Congress as a job creator, but many on the other side were concerned about the environmental implications of the pipeline. Although this was only the president’s third veto of his presidency, […]
As solar panel technology improves, it becomes increasingly less expensive for homeowners to install their own panels and go off the grid. That’s great news for a lot of home owners across the United States. Or, it would be, but for the efforts of states and power companies passing anti-solar rules, which make consumers pay a […]