Oil on the Water
Breaking News and Views about the Gulf Oil Spill. By Journal Staff and Contributors.
Ready to Rumble
A Strong Grassroots Movement Is Bringing Down King Coal. By Ted Nace.
A Growing Concern
Though Popular, the Urban Farm Movement Remains Unprofitable. By Sena Christian.
The EnvironmentaList
LNG Development Could Destroy Australia’s Kimberley Coast
The Kimberley region of north western Australia is one of the world’s great natural and Indigenous cultural regions - comparable to the Amazon and the Arctic/Antarctic in terms of vast naturally functioning ecosystems. Its savannah woodlands, free flowing rivers, intact wetlands, spectacular…
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Toxic Baby Shampoo and Other Horrors
It's a well-documented fact by now that the soaps and shampoos we clean up with are, more often than not, filled with toxic chemicals. As are most perfumes, makeup, and even more basic items like contact solution. The Environmental Working Group has…
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Oil Work Like “Wrestlin’ with a Tornado”
A glimpse of life in the extraction industry
Amid the vast sea of ink spilled in the course of covering the blowout of BP’s Macondo well, the media has given very little attention to the men (and they’re all men) who do the hard, dirty, and often dangerous work in…
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Gulf? What Gulf? Obama Admin Goes for More Drilling in Alaska
The Interior Department announced today--a Friday afternoon, perfect for avoiding press--the opening up of oil and gas drilling leases for 1.8 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve to oil and gas drilling. Energy and Environment reports that the Bureau of Land…
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Strain from the Oil Spill Is Beginning to Show
Social Service Providers Report High Rates of Anxiety and Depression
About three weeks ago, I attended a community gathering in Houma, LA put together by the Coast Guard and other government agencies to give Louisianans impacted by the BP blowout a chance to connect with social service providers and to get more…
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Beyond Oil Addiction
The Gulf Spill Shows We’re More Like an Abused Spouse
(This piece originally appeared at Alternet.org) Back in the early aughts, me and Mike Brune (now the head of the Sierra Club) and Jen Krill (today the executive director of the group Earthworks) launched a national grassroots campaign to push U.S. auto…
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The Buck Never Stops
Halliburton Profiting on Gulf Spill Cleanup
How’s this for a business model? First, you make a bundle of cash by providing essential services to the oil majors as they undertake tricky (and risky) offshore oil and gas extraction. Then, when one of the wells you’re working on blows…
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Voices
- Emergildo Criollo
- The star of the documentary Crude talks about Chevron,…
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- A conversation with Greenpeace’s first African director…
> Read more - Are Electric Cars Really Green?
- A debate over the climate impact of the electric vehicle boom.…
> Read more - The Cove’s Ric O’Barry
- Flipper trainer-turned-dolphin saver Ric O’Barry…
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Though Popular, the Urban Farm Movement Remains Unprofitable.
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