False victory? Coal plants being closed, dirty power will replace them
"We urge the TVA not to choose to rely on natural gas. It's time to leapfrog over dirty fossil fuels that will continue to exacerbate environmental/health issues."
New divestment movement targets fossil fuel giants
The movement, called Fossil Free, features the motto, "It's wrong to profit from wrecking the climate."
Obama talks clean energy jobs, LA launches solar rooftop program
President Obama included job creation in his climate change speech June 25, while Los Angeles launched the largest-ever urban solar rooftop program.
Atmosphere's carbon dioxide breaches 400
Many climate scientists, such as James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute, believe that any sustained period of time with higher than 350 ppm threatens catastrophic global warming.
Students, community protest Utah tar sands conference
Students and concerned citizens from a variety of organizations held a protest at a conference of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy. The institute promotes use of tar sands, oil shale and coal.
Energy giants hold workers hostage as environmental time bomb ticks away
Oil and coal companies are using their already powerful leverage with brutal disregard for working people and the environment.
Just outside of Vegas, coal plant gambles with lives
For years, the NV Energy-owned Reid Gardner coal plant just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada has been poisoning the Moapa tribe of Paiute Native Americans.
Tokelau becomes world’s first solar-powered country
Goodbye diesel generators, hello sunshine and coconuts!
Massive wind project approved for Wyoming
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that his department had approved the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Project.
Japan withdraws goal of no nukes by 2040
If the Japanese government continues to cater to corporate interests, critics fear, it will accommodate neither public demand nor scientific fact.
