As we wind down from a summer of record drought and record arctic sea-ice melt, and Mitt Romney continues to make a joke out of climate change, perhaps our only hope of actually getting people to talk about the greatest disaster facing humanity in all of recorded history could be… with a little humor. We […]
Natural gas fracking is spreading wildly, with very little oversight – especially in states like Pennsylvania, which was pretty much bought outright by the energy industry in the 2010 election. Now, President Obama appears to be making moves to take up some of that slack. He signed an executive order today that sets up a […]
By Michael Brune Executive Director, the Sierra Club Have you ever had to turn away millions of dollars? It sounds crazy, but here’s why the Sierra Club chose to do exactly that. In 2010, soon after I became the organization’s executive director, I learned that beginning in 2007 the Sierra Club had received more than […]
In a move that reeks of political cronyism and nepotism and demonstrates the inordinate power of the oil industry in California, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Secretary of State Debra Bowens’s husband, Mark Nechodom, to Chair California’s Department of Conservation on December 28. Nechodom, 56, replaces Derek Chernow, the acting director of the Department who Brown […]
By Kaitilin Gaffney Pacific Program Director, Ocean Conservancy You could practically hear folks from Seattle to San Diego breathe a big ol’ sigh of relief after the Department of the Interior released its proposed program for offshore oil and gas leasing through 2017 earlier this month. The good news is that Interior Department’s program does […]
A cartoon by Mark Fiore satirically extolling the benefits of ramping up oil production. Fiore makes the not-so-subtle allusion to drug addiction by sprinkling drug dealing/using metaphors liberally throughout.
In one of a couple appearances on this week’s Saturday Night Live, Alaska governor and Republican candidate for vice-president, Sarah Palin joined Seth Myers and Amy Poehler to do a bit on SNL’s mock-news, Weekend Update.
5 reasons not to drill for oil off our nation’s shores:
On Wednesday night, there were basically two messages coming from Republicans in St. Paul: 1. CEOs and mayors make great presidents; 2. Increasing domestic oil drilling will immediately lower gas prices. The ladder was summed up by the GOP’s newest catchphrase.