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Category: Environment

Mr. Buffett’s Coal Train

by Rick Bass | Nov 1, 2013 | Environment

  I grew up as an oil geologist, worked in Mississippi and Alabama for several years, so it’s not with the sometimes-reflexive reaction of a typical treehugger that I report from Montana with the news that the future of the world may well depend upon obscure and little-known events that are taking place in wild […]

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More Carbon than Keystone

by Lou Dubose | Nov 1, 2013 | Environment

  Bellingham, Washington   At dusk on a warm Wednesday afternoon in September, a Lummi couple in their sixties had just finished picking kelp out of a gill net they had stretched out into Bellingham Bay. The wind was calm and the water so clear that every stone on the bottom was visible. The incoming […]

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Can Obama Stand Up to the Oil Industry?

by Bill McKibben | Oct 28, 2013 | Environment

As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has worn on—and it’s now well over two years old—it has illuminated the Obama presidency like no other issue. It offers the president not just a choice of policies, but a choice of friends, worldviews, styles. It’s become an X-ray for a flagging presidency. The stakes are […]

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101 Preventable Disasters Waiting to Happen

by Lou Dubose | Oct 27, 2013 | Environment

West, Texas It has been six months since the fertilizer plant here exploded, killing 15, injuring more than 200 and leveling a swath of this small town 70 miles south of Fort Worth. The debris has been hauled off, rebuilding is underway, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration this month handed down $118,300 in […]

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Après le Déluge: New York Takes on Climate Change

by Peter Lehner | Oct 1, 2013 | Environment

  A year after superstorm sandy crashed into the heart of the Northeast, two things are clear. One, climate change is here, its costs are already high, and they are likely to climb higher soon. Two, political leaders in the region have shown that there is an alternative to head-in-the-sand denialism—namely, taking forward-looking steps to […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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