by Sharon Guynup
A conclusive EPA study directly links natural gas fracking to a poisoned drinking water aquifer, but still Congress refuses to regulate the gas industry. Why? Money: Congress is owned by the industry.
Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category
by Glenn Scherer
Local communities across America are banning fracking in response to federal and state failures to regulate the polluting natural gas drilling process.
by Glenn Scherer
When it comes to energy policy, it’s hard to see a difference between Presidents Obama and Bush. A case in point: the proposed Keystone XL pipeline – bringing tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
by Ben Lowe
We are poisoning our children with mercury warns a former Illinois Congressional candidate and Evangelical Christian. But if we all stand together, we can make Congress implement standards to end power plant mercury emissions.
by Glenn Scherer
From record killer tornadoes in Missouri, to record floods on the Mississippi, to record drought in Texas, weather weirdness is rife. But Congress still sees fit to vote oil companies their full subsidies, and Obama wants to mine more coal, doubling climate change emissions.
by David Lillard
Hydraulic fracking is harming the U.S. environment and public health. Even U.S. Energy Secretary Ken Salazar is worried that fracking could kill the industry if Congress doesn’t regulate its excesses.
by Glenn Scherer
The New York Times had revealed that as long ago as 1972 the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (precursor to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) knew of fatal design defects in the General Electric nuclear reactors now gone critical in Japan, but instead of banning the design, they stamped it as “safe” for nearly four decades.
by Josh Schlossberg
With every form of energy jumping on the “clean and green” federal subsidy bandwagon, Josh Schlossberg contends that biomass power incineration – the burning of forests to make electricity – should be ruled out. It pollutes the air, threatens public health, and worsens climate change, despite industry claims otherwise.
by Jeff Feldman
A green building consultant, Jeff Feldman tells readers how they can easily shed 41 pounds in 2011 by cutting junk mail out of their diets. Feldman’s practical tips for trimming back the junk mail load we receive daily saves time, trees and waste.
by Peter Bradford
Peter Bradford, a former commissioner on the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, urges the incoming Congress, including Tea Partiers elected on a small-government platform, to reject the nuclear industry’s quest for massive taxpayer subsidies. Bradford also formerly chaired the New York and Maine utility regulatory commissions. He now teaches Nuclear Power and Public Policy at Vermont Law School.
