We Are All Louisianans
Louisiana’s predicament is the plight of the entire US, writ large. By Jason Mark.
Hide and Leak
BP’s Cleanup Is More Like a Cover up. Holding the Company Accountable Will Require Digging for the Truth. By Riki Ott.
Web of Destruction
Researchers are just beginning to put together a picture of the Gulf’s post-spill ecosystem … and it’s not pretty. By Amy Westervelt & Innosanto Nagara.
The EnvironmentaList
Choose Your Friends Wisely
Radical eco-activist imprisoned for “friending” Mike Roselle
For years, Rod Coronado was the unofficial bad boy of the radical environmental movement. As a teenager he cut his teeth with the now well known Sea Shepherd Society and, in 1986, participated in a risky act of eco-sabotage: taking aim at…
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Big Banks Pull Away from Dirty Businesses
Good News Shows Potential for Progress Outside of Washington
Today’s New York Times has a front page story delivering some sorely needed good news: Many of the world’s biggest banks — including giants like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, and HSBC — are voluntarily reducing their investments in environmentally…
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Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy
By Tom Rooney, CEO of SPG Solar
Conservatives, take a breath. Let’s talk about energy. And why so many conservatives are so wrong — so liberal, even — on wind and solar energy. Let’s start with a recent editorial from the home of ‘free markets and free people,” the…
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In Russia, A Victory For Civil Society
Khimki Highway Construction On Hold
A long running battle over the construction of a highway through Moscow’s Khimki forest has taken a surprising turn. Earlier this week I wrote about the broad based campaign to save one of Moscow’s few remaining green belts and old growth oak…
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Where’s the Deepwater Horizon Oil?
Microbes are busy, and oil is dispersed but far from gone
The BP/Deepwater Horizon well is now capped but it will be sometime before we understand where the nearly 5 million barrels of oil that gushed from the ruptured well have gone. On August 2nd, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released…
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Russia’s Forest Defenders
Campaign to save Moscow's Khimki forest heats up
This story first appeared at Waging Nonviolence. As Russia’s forests go up in flames, a group of activists and environmentalists is struggling to protect one of Moscow’s few remaining green belts and stands of old growth oaks. This time the threat isn’t…
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The Lid Is Off Pandora’s Box
Genetically Modified Canola Is Loose in the Environment
Since the advent of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), critics have warned about the dangers of manipulating plants’ inherent makeup. Ecologists cautioned that genetically engineered (GE) crops could spread throughout the environment, creating new organisms that scientists never designed, forming “superweeds” that would…
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Voices
- Paul Watson
- A conversation with Whale Wars’ Sea Shepherd…
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- Leave the leaves alone…
> Read more - Deserts vs. Big Solar
- A debate over habitat conservation and low-carbon power.…
> Read more - The Cove’s Ric O’Barry
- Flipper trainer-turned-dolphin saver Ric O’Barry…
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We Are All Louisianans
Louisiana’s predicament is the plight of the entire US, writ large.
Hide and Leak
BP’s Cleanup Is More Like a Cover up. Holding the Company Accountable Will Require Digging for the Truth.
Disaster in Another Language
The Oil Spill May Hit the Gulf’s Vietnamese Community Hardest
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