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Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Keith Bradsher, Cap and Trade, Russ Choma, President Obama, Washington D.C., Renewable Energy, Usw, Blue Green Alliance, Obama, Congress, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, Investigative Reporting Workshop, Iberdrola, China, Stimulus, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Unemployment, Fossil Fuels, Buy American, Windmills, New York Times, Republicans, Windmill Farm, Green Energy, Green News
Leo W. Gerard

Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.

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Enough With the Global Warming Graphics, Get to the Choices

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Green Energy, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Green News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

Only 30 percent of Americans say global warming should be a top priority for Congress and the President. Activists need to lose the graphics and get back to the basics: the facts.

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New Energy Economy -- Next Steps for Colorado and the Nation

Leslie Weise | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, Governor Ritter, Energy Efficiency, Green Jobs, Fossil Fuels, Xcel, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Bill Ritter, Green Energy Economy, Solar Power, Denver News
Leslie Weise

There are many obstacles to transition our dependency on traditional fossil fuels to cleaner energy solutions, and Ritter has demonstrated the courage to confront those obstacles.

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"Failure Is Not an Option..."

Wade Norris | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Tesla, Electric Conversion, Geothermal, Copenhagen, Solar Panels, Electric Car, Colorado, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Environmental Refugees, Windmills, Denver News
Wade Norris

What if we approached global warming the way we approached confronting the Nazis in World War II or the way NASA approached Apollo 13?

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Fossil Fuels Had A Hand In Dinosaur Extinction

New Scientist | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Co2, Hydrocarbons, Dinosaurs, Fossil Fuels, Extinction, Energy, Green News

Fossil fuels have a new crime to live down. A frenzy of hydrocarbon burning at the end of the Permian period may have led to the most devastating mass...

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Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Progressive Book Club, Al Gore, Book Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Green, Global Warming, Gore Solutions Summit, Pollution, Al Gore an Inconvenient Truth, Environment, Our Choice, Al Gore Book Review, Environmental, Environmental Problems, Fossil Fuels, Al Gore Book, Going Green, Books, Al Gore Our Choice, One Year Later, Books News

Bill McKibben Progressive Book Club Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis By Al Gore Rodale, 2009 There's been a certain amount of debate ...

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Al Gore Explains How Call For Climate Change Action Is Similar To Civil Rights Movement (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy, An Inconvenient Truth, Coal, Renewable Resources, Solar Energy, Katie Couric, Fossil Fuels, Water Pollution, Health, Climate Change, Oil, Al Gore, Air Pollution, Un, Copenhagen, Climate Change Bill, Our Choice, Green News

The push for government action on climate change is like the US civil rights movement, according to former Vice President Al Gore. Both causes depende...

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Even If They're Right, the Superfreakonomics Guys Only Have Half an Answer

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Superfreakonomics, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Energy Policy, Global Warming, Green News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

Even if geoengineering works magnificently to cool down the Earth (and right now, that's definitely an "if"), it won't meet growing energy demand from countries like India and China.

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Biofuels For Commercial Flights By 2010

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Biofuel, Fossil Fuels, Green Technology, Airplanes, Airports, Iata, Pollution, Airlines, International Air Transport Association, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce...

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Salazar Cleans Up Bush-Era Cronyism in Dirty Oil-Shale Program

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Public Lands, Green River, Fossil Fuels, Department of Interior, Oil Leases, Oil Shale, Ken Salazar, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Do we want energy development on our public lands to intensify global warming or a national energy policy that promotes technologies that are renewable and create four times jobs as fossil fuels?

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The Walls Come Tumbling Down: Is Stonewalling Finally Over on Energy?

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Renewable Energy, Energy, Utilities, Climate Change, Environmental Policy, Fossil Fuels, Climate Bill, Green News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

Now that even the most staunch critics have conceded that the US needs to reduce emissions, it's time to stop sitting on our hands and commit to weaning off fossil fuels.

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Rejoice! Ice Free Arctic Summers Within a Decade!

Wade Norris | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Glaciers, Indonesia, Sumatra, Fossil Fuels, Arctic, Oil, Samoa, Erosion, Earthquakes, Sea Level Rise, Environmental Refugees, Ice Quakes, Ice Free Summers, Denver News
Wade Norris

Great news here! Oil companies are going to have a great opportunity to drill in the Arctic Sea floor to find more fossil fuels, because the Arctic Circle will soon be ice-free in the summers.

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Defining Justice for Environmental Refugees

Wade Norris | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Climate Refugees, Tuvalu, Carbon Emission, United Nations, Copenhagen, European Union, United States, Maldives, Carteret Islands, Barack Obama, Relocation, Legal Status, Fossil Fuels, Environmental Refugees, Vanuatu, Industrialized Countries, Fiji, Senate, Kivalina, Kirabiti, Denver News
Wade Norris

There is a growing group of people in our world who are in a legal limbo: environmental refugees. And this problem is only going to get bigger as time goes on.

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Find Out Which Of The G20 Countries Emits Most

washingtonpost.com | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change Policy, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Fossil Fuels, g20, Green News

Explore changes in carbon emissions from fossil fuels for G-20 countries, selected developing nations and others critical to the climate debate....

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Crude World: An Interview with Peter Maass

Adriana Dunn | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Oil-Dependency, Peter Maass, Fossil Fuels, Ida Tarbell, Paradox of Plenty, Nigeria, Crude World, Middle East, Crude World Book, Equitorial Guinea, Crude Oil, Business News
Adriana Dunn

By now, we all know the environmental costs of oil. But in his book, Crude World, author Peter Maass offers a first hand account of the social costs: poverty, war and corruption.

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How to Fight Climate Change, Create Jobs and Make America Safer

John DeCock | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Unemployment, Green Jobs, Fossil Fuels, National Security, Clean Water, Aces, Climate Change, Oil Companies, Global Warming, Green News
John DeCock

Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer today introduced a bill that aspires to accomplish the climate change mission and addresses other important issues Americans face, like employment.

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Green News Report: September 29, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green

Read More: United Nations Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Ken Burns, Climate Change, Green News, Green News Report, Chamber of Commerce, National Parks, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In today's audio report: The long, long road to Copenhagen; An end to government support for fossil fuels; your national parks, 'America's Best Idea.'

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Money Walks, Fossil Fuel Talks

Richard Stuebi | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change Bill, Energy Policy, Copenhagen Climate Council, Copenhagen 2009, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Green News
Richard Stuebi

Over the coming months running up to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, it will be interesting to see which side can amass more force: finance or fossil fuels.

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Climate Change: Making Anxiety an Asset

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Climate Change, Alternative Energy, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Green News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

Lyndon Johnson once said that if you can't walk into a room and know who's for you and who's against you, you don't belong in politics. You have to address the concerns people bring into the room with them.

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Team Earth: Are You In?

Harrison Ford | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Automobiles, Tropical Deforestation, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Harrison Ford, Environment, Airplanes, Deforestation, Team Earth, Trucks, Rain Forest, Green News
Harrison Ford

Team Earth is issuing an urgent, immediate challenge by teaming up with the Prince's Rainforest Project to call for swift action and funding to reduce tropical deforestation.

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Big Oil Goes Green

newsweek.com | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Fossil Fuel Protection, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy, Greenwashing, Solar Panels, Alternative Energy Sources, Green Energy, Global Warming, Oil Companies, Green News

It's not just that these projects involve bigger money, which will grow exponentially if new technologies work. That's still peanuts for oil majors, w...

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Does Delay Mean Disaster for the Climate Bill? Depends

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Copenhagen 2009, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Environment, Harry Reid, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

When the public's knowledge levels are this low, the risk of fear mongering, misinformation and pandering is very high -- as the health care town halls have proven.

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Money for Nothing, and Your Climate for Free

Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, g20, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Green News
Stephen Kretzmann

With all the hoopla about cap and trade, carbon offsets, and parts per million, wouldn't a good place to start be to stop supporting big oil and dirty coal with our tax dollars?

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Guess What Else Cost a Trillion

Joshua Keyak | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environment, Green, Fossil Fuels, Health Care, Healthcare, Environmental Policy, Environmentalism, Green Economy, Green Living, Green Energy, Green News
Joshua Keyak

We must live more sustainable lifestyles, not only for our own individual health and pocket book but also for the well-being of others.

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Save Cash by Going Green: 4 Tips

Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Motoring, Fuel, Energy, Gas Prices, Gas, Driving, Landfills, Charity, Carbon Emissions, Economy, Green, Conservation, Green Living, Saving Money, Coal, Methane, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, Oil Prices, Environment, Earth Hour, Food, Sierra Club, Cash, Going Green and Saving Money, Green Tips, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Going green doesn't just save the outside world. It also can preserve the hard-earned money in your bank account.

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