Posts Tagged ‘politics’

• Obama may still buckle on Keystone

  So Keystone has become a high-stakes political chess game following the president’s decision to kill the project. This Talking Points Memo article says Republicans have no expectations of getting Obama to sign infrastructure legislation including a Keystone rider, but they’ll …

• Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate

  We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly …

• Obama Keystone statement bodes ill for future of climate

  If President Obama’s thoroughly embarrassing stumbling-block posture at Durban left any doubt about the softness of his conviction on climate change, the Keystone decision has just nailed the notion. Yes, it’s great that the pipeline is dead, and everyone from …

• US rejects controversial Keystone XL pipeline

  The US state department has denied a permit for the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline, that once constructed would transport dirty and climate killing tar sands from Canada to the US and other world markets. One of the world’s most …

• Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol

  Just hours after returning from COP17 in South Africa, Peter Kent, Canada’s environment minister, announced that the country would use their legal right and become the first country to quit the Kyoto Protocol. Kent claimed that the Kyoto protocol “will …

• The Durban climate deal saves the talks, but not the climate

  The hopes that COP17 would result in a new and strong climate deal were, to be frank, extremely low if not nonexistent. With only three days left of negotiations, UN chief Ban Ki-moon even warned that an agreement would probably …

• The United States Might Import Water from Mexico

  The United States receives many imports from Mexico on a daily basis, including possibly water. Four major American water districts are currently working on a plan that would build two big desalination plants in Playas de Rosarito. The reason? The …

• Vote 1 Socialist or vote 1 Green for Planet and Humanity

  In the Western Murdochracies (Big Money buys truth and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians and policy) pro-Planet and pro-Humanity voters have little choice but to vote 1 Green or vote 1 Socialist as set out below using the …

• GOP Voted Over 100 Times to Stop Environmental Protection This Year

  The GOP is notorious for their reputation on denying climate change and other environmental issues even though the evidence continues to pile up that these are very real concerns. The Tea Party movement in the GOP continues to make this …

• US Chamber of Commerce Lobby’s For Tar Sand Pipeline

  The U.S Chamber of Commerce has launched a campaign to lobby for Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The Partnership to Fuel America is run out of the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, and seems positioned to be the …