Big Oil’s Lies About Pollution Health Risks Contributed To Millions Of Deaths
For decades, major oil companies have known about the health risks from fine particulates but worked diligently to keep that knowledge secret.
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Connecting The Dots: A Firsthand Account Of How The UKIP Surge Drove The Tories To…
Having spent years working in the renewable energy industry, especially in the UK South West, I witnessed first-hand the political and economic backlash against the industry. As is often the case, with the anti-renewables backlash, there is more going on than first meets the eye.
The Koch Brothers Have Been Waging A War On America For 50 Years. This Is…
The Koch Brothers have been waging war on America for 50 years. Now, thanks to Citizens United, they are close to being victorious.
Paris Climate Accords Withdrawal Bought And Paid For By Koch Brothers
In the past 9 years, the US Congress had become a place where representatives are afraid to talk about climate change. How did that happen? Money, and lots of it, thanks to Citizens United.
Calling Anti-Renewables Campaigners NIMBYs Is Often Inaccurate And Always Unproductive
NIMBY — Not In My Back Yard — is a nice crisp acronym and gets bandied about a lot when discussing opposition to wind energy and other renewables. But it is inadequate as a categorization of the various people fighting against broader penetration of renewables in energy grids worldwide. More … [continued]
Wind Turbines Don’t Kill Birds, Coal Plants Do
A very detailed and complex study (pdf) Increasing Wind Energy’s Contribution to the US Electricity Supply weighing the costs and benefits of increasing wind power to 20% by 2030 included some very interesting projections on bird extinction numbers expected from climate change. While it may not be news to cleantechnica … [continued]
Oil-Funded Group That Targeted Green Jobs Czar Now After Steven Chu
The DOE is headed up by Steven Chu, who has totally revamped the Department of Energy from a fossil friendly enterprise to one that moves us swiftly off of oil and coal and towards more home grown renewable power like solar and wind. The Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise … [continued]
