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Kevin Grandia is a Director at Greenpeace USA and has been writing on climate change and other pressing environmental issues for more than five years.

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Blog Entries by Kevin Grandia

Oil Companies Powned in Epic Switcheroo Operation [Video]

2 Comments | Posted December 1, 2011 | 13:42:35 (EST)

In true "Yes Men" style, environment campaigners duped representatives of major oil companies into attending a meeting about the harsh realities of offshore oil drilling, instead of their intended meeting with Greenland officials to talk about opening up Northern seas to drilling.

Jon Brugwald, a Nordic...

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OWS Versus the Tea Party Is Comparing Apples to Koch

7 Comments | Posted November 9, 2011 | 14:58:00 (EST)

Setting up the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement as the left wing's answer to the right-wing tea party is completely flawed for one simple reason: one is an actual uprising of concerned citizens, while the other is set up to have the appearance of an uprising...

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Got Ocean Destruction? A Chicken of the Sea Recipe to Die For [video]

Posted November 4, 2011 | 11:22:04 (EST)

As a self-professed foodie, I am always looking for new and exciting recipes but this one from commercial tuna giant Chicken of the Sea is pretty over the top.

A new video out today by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore shows in graphic detail the recipe...

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OMG Facebook! Luv Yr Green DataCenter in Sweden! B Gr8 if U Went Global, Wut?

1 Comments | Posted October 27, 2011 | 17:38:40 (EST)

Everyone's favorite social network is building a new datacenter in LuleƄ, Sweden that's going to be powered by renewable energy.

That earns a big like from us, but naturally we want more.

First, some backstory. What inspired Zuckerberg and Company to drop coal as a power source...

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The True Cost of Coal - Jharia Coal Mine, India

1 Comments | Posted October 4, 2011 | 17:55:47 (EST)

The Jharia coal mine in the Jharkhand State of India has been described as "hell on earth" for reasons made clear in the images below, but also because there has been underground coal fires burning here for nearly a century. Greenpeace was there recently to document...

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Capitol Coal: Potomac River Generating Station to Shut Down

Posted August 30, 2011 | 20:35:00 (EST)

You can see the Potomac River coal plant from the nation's Capitol building. But not for much longer. The owner of the Potomac plant, GenOn Energy, announced today that it will shutter the plant -- one of the nation's oldest and dirtiest -- by October 2012.

Good riddance.

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Endangered Sumatran Tiger Dies in Trap While Bulldozers Rip Rainforest Nearby (VIDEO)

Posted July 27, 2011 | 18:42:55 (EST)

Warning: this blog contains images and video footage that may upset you.


Recently word came to the Greenpeace office in Indonesia that a Sumatran tiger was stuck in an animal trap in an area being logged by

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Video Disputes Billionaire Koch's Claim that he is not involved in Tea Party

Posted October 13, 2010 | 15:45:44 (EST)

A video clip has been released today showing billionaire industrialist David Koch on stage getting reports from regional organizers on their efforts to rally the Tea Party movement.

David Koch, who has received a lot of attention lately for the millions he has spent over...

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Politics of Division: Obama-hate tactics will backfire in Maine Governor Race

Posted October 5, 2010 | 18:58:09 (EST)

In response to a debate question put to candidates for the Governor of Maine about what they would say if President Obama was on stage with them right now, Paul LePage, the Tea Party Republican candidate, told the crowd he would tell the President to "get out of...

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Filmmaker Goes Undercover to Expose Corporate Links to the Tea Party (VIDEO)

Posted October 4, 2010 | 17:44:53 (EST)

In his recently released documentary, "(astro) Turf Wars", Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham goes undercover to try and answer the question: "Just how real are the roots of the tea party's supposed grassroots uprising."

Oldham, examines the role corporate-funded grassroots groups (known as 'astroturf') have played in the recent...

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Is Maine's Tea Party Candidate for Governor Paul LePage, the GOP's next Christine O'Donnell?

Posted September 30, 2010 | 14:18:21 (EST)

UPDATE: Another video has just been put out with Paul LePage saying that he wants to punch a reporter from Maine's Public Broadcasting Network.

Things are not going well for Paul LePage, the ultra-conservative Tea Party candidate for Governor in Maine.

If the train of strange...

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Tea Party Candidate for Maine Paul LePage Flapping on Taxing Questions

Posted September 27, 2010 | 20:59:04 (EST)

Paul LePage, the Tea Party Republican candidate for the Governor of Maine is being asked some tough questions on the campaign trail about his wife's tax troubles in Florida, as well as potential tuition savings the family may have incurred due to claiming permanent residence in that State....

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Are Cities the Climate Champions We're Looking for?

Posted September 20, 2010 | 20:39:57 (EST)

A failed US climate bill and a stalled international treaty does not mean that nobody is doing anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the years while world leaders and bureaucrats have fiddled, cities around the world have been the champions when it comes to adopting tough measures to...

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Ryan Air CEO Buries Head Firmly in Sand, Says Global Warming Is Bulls**t

Posted September 12, 2010 | 19:55:46 (EST)

There is something poetic about comparing the head of a low-budget airline company to an ostrich.

The CEO of Ryan Air, Michael O'Leary, the cheap-flight kings of Europe, is grabbing  headlines today and it is not for his company's cramped no-frills flights, but for his comments regarding the reality...

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Koch Industries Funds Attack on Science Linking Formaldehyde and Cancer

Posted September 7, 2010 | 14:31:54 (EST)

Further revelations have come to light since the recent controversial expose in the New Yorker about Koch Industries, surrounding New York billionaire David Koch and his company's involvement in the industry-led effort to downplay the links between formaldehyde and cancer.

In 2008, the president of one of Koch...

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Clean energy drowned out in Washington by a Two Billion Dollar Juggernaut

Posted August 31, 2010 | 13:55:46 (EST)

Red State bloggers are all in a tizzy over an Open Secrets article showing that the American Wind Energy Association spent over $5 million last year on lobbying politicians in Washington, DC.

It's about time we started seeing the clean energy sector make its voice heard on Capitol...

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Toyota Touting Climate Deniers to Sell Luxury Hybrid Cars

Posted August 4, 2010 | 16:23:07 (EST)

In an attempt to look edgy and sell more hybrid cars, Lexus, the luxury division of the Toyota Motor Corporation, is holding a series of debates featuring professional climate deniers who have no research background in the area of climate science, other than their ability to spindoctor.

Called...

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What do Sandra Bullock, Lenny Kravitz and Blake Lively have in common?

Posted July 28, 2010 | 19:14:24 (EST)

UPDATE: Sandra Bullock has issued a statement through her publicist saying that:

"Ms. Bullock was originally contacted through her attorney to be a part of the PSA in order to promote awareness of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. At no time was she made...

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DiCaprio's Solar Powered Inception (Photos)

Posted July 28, 2010 | 18:01:03 (EST)

I was taking a quick look at Leonardo DiCaprio's twitter account, when I saw he has posted on Facebook shots of the solar panels that were used to power some of the set for his movie Inception.

I know, I know, these aren't the...

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The Government Wants To Stop Another TVA Coal Ash Disaster, But Doesn't Want To Hear About It

Posted July 22, 2010 | 15:37:55 (EST)

Earlier this year the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would put in place rules to ensure the safe disposal of coal ash, which is basically the toxic waste leftover after coal is burned to produce electricity.

The announcement was prompted by the disaster that occurred a...

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