Category Archives: climate change

The Gulf Oil Spill is Obama’s Chance to Bring Real Change

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Sarah Jones

While the Right howls that Obama is using the Gulf oil spill for political gain they forget that, in 1989, after the Exxon Valdez President G.H. Bush used that disaster to pass the Clean Air Act. The lesson being that it takes a disaster in order to get Americans and their politicians to take the environment seriously. Continue reading →

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Change Has Come: Environmental Protection Now Has Public Support

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Sarah Jones

It seems that the worst environmental disaster in US history was all it took for Americans to get serious about protecting the environment. According to the latest Society for Human Resource Management/National Journal Congressional Connection survey, 56% of those asked said, that “protecting the environment” should be the more important priority for U.S. energy policy over “keeping energy prices low.” Continue reading →

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Sarah Palin Greeted by Environmental Big Oil Protesters in Vegas

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Sarah Jones

Sarah Palin was speaking last night in Las Vegas, Nevada, headlining the annual shopping center convention. But it was the environmental protesters dismayed by Palin’s continued support of off –shore drilling lined up outside of the convention hall where Palin was speaking that drew the attention. Continue reading →

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The White House Slams Palin’s Obama Oil Spill Allegations

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Sarah Jones

Sarah Palin, the Drill Baby Drill poster girl and someone whose PAC contributions read like a who’s who in the oil business, had the gall this morning on Fox News Sunday to accuse Obama of not doing his job because he is in bed with big oil. Palin says she went after BP as Governor of Alaska and President Obama should, too, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs set Palin straight. Continue reading →

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Earth, Wind and Oil: Big Energy Triumphs Over Democracy

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Todd Curl

With the BP oil spill still raging after a month of disinformation and stonewalling from both BP and the Obama Administration as well as the catastrophe of the Massey coal mine explosion just two weeks prior to the BP Gulf disaster, the left and right are playing their trite and expected “blame game” without acknowledging the actual systemic realities of a Government that enables BP and Massey to rape and plunder the earth for the sake of profit at the expense of the environment and human life. Continue reading →

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GOP Uses SECRET HOLD To Obstruct Record Number of Nominees

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Sarah Jones

A dark storm is brewing over the Senate as Republicans obstruct Presidential nominees in record numbers, abusing secret hold and laundering holds in an attempt to outrun Senate rules. The Republicans’ unprecedented use of secret holds has almost brought government to a standstill, and yet they’ve avoided all accountability for their actions by hiding under the cloak of anonymity. Senator Claire McCaskill tried to force them to own up to their holds this week. Continue reading →

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Spill, Baby Spill: Explosion Gives Environmentalists Regulation Firepower

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Sarah Jones

The “Drill Baby Drill” proponents are eerily silent as the oil spill in the Gulf, which could become one of the worst recent environmental disasters of this nation, threatens hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife. The massive explosion and subsequent oil spill of a rig in the Gulf of Mexico may lead to reinstating the expired moratoriums on off-shore drilling as well as new regulations, which oil giant BP says it is expecting. Continue reading →

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Director James Cameron Calls Out Glenn Beck

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Jason Easley

Director James Cameron was on MSNBC’s Hardball today and when he was asked by host Chris Matthews about the power Glenn Beck, he delivered an ominous warning, “Guys like Beck and the others, I think they are very dangerous to this country.” Some on the Left like Cameron are starting to wake up and realize that Beck, Limbaugh, and the others need to be taken seriously as more than entertainers. Continue reading →

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Virginia GOP Politicizes Snow Storm to Argue Against Climate Change

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Jason Easley

In their quest to politicize everything, the Republican Party sunk to a new low today in the state of Virginia, as they are using the current record snow storm in a new ad that mocks Democrats for supporting climate change legislation. The Republican are ignoring that events like the massive snow event are exactly what scientists are warning of. Continue reading →

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Michael Steele Gets On His Knees and Proclaims His Love of Glenn Beck

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Jason Easley

RNC Chairman Michael Steele was on Fox Radio’s Brian and The Judge show, and he left no doubt about who is really running the GOP, as he admitted that he watches Glenn Beck , and then said, “Love, Beck, love Beck, my goodness, he’s lovable.” Continue reading →

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