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Coal Ash is So Safe, I’d Eat it on Cereal, Doctor Says

Arsenic has been a known poison for centuries – in fact, it was often used as a murder weapon during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It causes cancer of the skin, lungs, bladder and kidney as well as symptoms like violent bowel pain, bloody vomit, convulsions, delirium, and death.
Yet according to the GOP’s star [...]

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The Story of Cap & Trade

Annie Leonard’s ‘The Story of Stuff’, an entertaining and poignant look at exactly how all the stuff in our lives affects the world, was celebrated by environmentalists for providing a reality check on consumer culture. But her newest film, ‘The Story of Cap and Trade’, is not receiving quite so warm a welcome. Called “colossally [...]

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John Kerry Calls Out Climate Change Denier B.S.

A hack of an “environmental scholar” working for an organization that consistently seeks to undermine efforts to fight global warming got schooled on climate change policy by Senator John Kerry during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on November 10th. Kerry rebuked Green’s comments for a solid five minutes, leaving a floundering Green unable to defend [...]

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GOP Politicians Parrot False Climate Bill Talking Points

What’s more important – actual facts, or talking points filled with false figures designed to knock down the competition at any cost? To the GOP, it’s clearly the latter. They’ve never been known for fighting fair, but in the past year or so the Republican Party has apparently decided that anything goes, with a series [...]

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Oil Industry Planning Town Hall Protests Against Climate Bill

As angry, misinformed mobs take over town halls to scream in people’s faces about health care issues they don’t understand, the oil industry is quietly taking notes – and planning to use similar tactics against the climate bill.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the American Petroleum Institute and other energy groups are funding rallies in [...]

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More Climate Bill Forgery: Big Oil Lobbyists Fake Public Opposition

You can smell the desperation of the dirty energy industry from a mile away. It’s the smell of a slow death, a filthy, oozing, gangrenous smell that emits from Big Oil and Big Coal as they attempt to lie, cheat and steal their way to maintaining the status quo.
Last month, lobbyists working for a coal [...]

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