Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
At Peabody Coal, we take pride in polluting the earth
We should be doing everything we can to make these numbers go down, and celebrate them going down. And yes, that means finding other economies, other jobs, other possibilities. But for the moment, Peabody loves its coal trains...
2015 Missouri Earth Day Rally at the Capitol Bldng, Jefferson City
Small but rising tide in this coal-ash state.
HSBC outlines four ways to divest from fossil fuels | Carbon Brief
Handy guide for our money managers...
HSBC outlines four ways to divest from fossil fuels | Carbon Brief
HSBC outlines four ways to divest from fossil fuels | Carbon Brief
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Why Ameren is part of the problem, not part of the solution: Carbon Lock-In: Ameren shareholder proposals fail to win majority : Business
Ameren shareholder proposals fail to win majority : Business
Finally, the shareholder activist group As You Sow proposed tying the company’s executive compensation to reductions in carbon dioxide. Only owners of 6.7 percent of the company’s stock voted in favor of the resolution.
Finally, the shareholder activist group As You Sow proposed tying the company’s executive compensation to reductions in carbon dioxide. Only owners of 6.7 percent of the company’s stock voted in favor of the resolution.
USGS lets Oklahoma governor reveal it first, but here's the national report on seismicity related to wastewater and fluid injection
Another reason we need to just move on...
Full report available here: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1070/pdf/ofr2015-1070.pdf
Full report available here: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1070/pdf/ofr2015-1070.pdf
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Yemen as War of Right-Wing Billionaire Establishment in the Middle East
Yemen as War of Right-Wing Billionaire Establishment in the Middle East
On the attempt to maintain elite control in a region marked by deep inequalities, dwindling oil resources, and water scarcity, and on the US' contradictory place therein...
On the attempt to maintain elite control in a region marked by deep inequalities, dwindling oil resources, and water scarcity, and on the US' contradictory place therein...
"This, of course, creates certain logical disconnects.
The United States is supporting the Saudi bombing in Yemen because the Houthis are allied with Iran and because Washington relies on the Yemeni government as a partner against al-Qaeda. But in Iraq, the U.S. is tacitly cooperating with Iran in the war on the Islamic State, or ISIS. And while the Saudi government is opposed to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, aided by U.S. intelligence, it’s attacking one of the major forces fighting al-Qaeda in Yemen — the Houthis.
In the meantime, the Gulf Council has stepped up its support of the Nusra Front in Syria, a group tied to al-Qaeda and a sworn enemy of the Gulf monarchies as well as the United States."
Read the rest of the article here.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Judges Skeptical of Challenge to Proposed E.P.A. Rule on Climate Change
Judges Skeptical of Challenge to Proposed E.P.A. Rule on Climate Change
Peabody and Murray -- the two companies stripping out Southern Illinois, are also suing the EPA.
Peabody and Murray -- the two companies stripping out Southern Illinois, are also suing the EPA.
Friday, April 17, 2015
George Will is ranting and raving incoherent things again: ‘Sustainability’ gone mad on college campuses
‘Sustainability’ gone mad on college campuses
"College tuitions are soaring in tandem with thickening layers of administrative bloat. So here is a proposal: Hundreds of millions could be saved, with no cost to any institution’s core educational mission, by eliminating every position whose title contains the word “sustainability” — and, while we are at it, “diversity,” “multicultural” or “inclusivity.” The result would be higher education higher than the propaganda-saturated version we have, and more sustainable."
"College tuitions are soaring in tandem with thickening layers of administrative bloat. So here is a proposal: Hundreds of millions could be saved, with no cost to any institution’s core educational mission, by eliminating every position whose title contains the word “sustainability” — and, while we are at it, “diversity,” “multicultural” or “inclusivity.” The result would be higher education higher than the propaganda-saturated version we have, and more sustainable."
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
In case you like your science auto-tuned, check out Isaac Asimov et al, giving basic facts on global warming
Corny, but good, auto-tuned science, in case it helps you get the point: fossil fuel burning is making the planet too hot.
Friday, April 10, 2015
So they can keep drilling, but missing the point: New Sea Drilling Rule Planned, 5 Years After BP Oil Spill
New Sea Drilling Rule Planned, 5 Years After BP Oil Spill
As we discussed:
As we discussed:
Environmentalists also noted that a panel appointed by President Obama to investigate the spill concluded that the chief cause of the disaster, which left the Gulf Coast soaked in black tar, was not the blowout preventer but a broad systemic failure of oversight by the companies involved in drilling the well and the government regulators assigned to police them.
Uncertainty of renewable energy incentives a challenge for Missouri solar companies
Uncertainty of renewable energy incentives a challenge for Missouri solar companies
Can't trust Ameren on this one, they pulled the rebate program to stall solar's growth:
"Between 2010 and 2014, Missouri's program gave consumers a $2 per watt rebate to help recover the cost of installing solar energy systems, financed by AmerenMissouri and Kansas City Power & Light. Both investor-owned utilities were required by state law to get 2 percent of their power from solar energy, unless those changes would hike customer rates by more than 1 percent. In 2013 and 2014, the two announced they had hit that 1 percent mark, and ended the programs."
Can't trust Ameren on this one, they pulled the rebate program to stall solar's growth:
"Between 2010 and 2014, Missouri's program gave consumers a $2 per watt rebate to help recover the cost of installing solar energy systems, financed by AmerenMissouri and Kansas City Power & Light. Both investor-owned utilities were required by state law to get 2 percent of their power from solar energy, unless those changes would hike customer rates by more than 1 percent. In 2013 and 2014, the two announced they had hit that 1 percent mark, and ended the programs."
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Duke Energy called out for targeting black community with 'cynical' anti-solar campaign
This is how the industry tries to maintain carbon lock-in.
Fight against solar, target low-income communities, use fear-mongering and environmental racism.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Subcritical coal top 20: Engaging energy companies on climate & human rights impacts | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Subcritical coal top 20: Engaging energy companies on climate & human rights impacts | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Must read to understand how/why "engagement" will/not work with big coal-powered utilities. Global engagement attempt discussed in detail.
Must read to understand how/why "engagement" will/not work with big coal-powered utilities. Global engagement attempt discussed in detail.
Monday, April 6, 2015
Some worry that climate change rules threaten reliability of electrical grid : Business
Should we trust these coal-dependent utility executives to make good decisions about our air and our public health?
Some worry that climate change rules threaten reliability of electrical grid : Business
Some worry that climate change rules threaten reliability of electrical grid : Business
Friday, April 3, 2015
Trying to control the narrative: One on one: Pakrasi on the pulse of energy-research - St. Louis Business Journal
More ethically questionable use of the words "clean coal"
One on one: Pakrasi on the pulse of energy-research - St. Louis Business Journal
One on one: Pakrasi on the pulse of energy-research - St. Louis Business Journal
Hazel Dickens: Black Lung and Dirty Coal
"One of my brothers had lived his entire life, and never got any further than he did then when he first started out as a teenager in the mines...he lived his whole life [in the mines] and he died without enough to even bury himself..we had to go to the welfare to get enough to bury him... it just seemed that in a country like this that people shouldn't have to live and be buried as poor as when they came into the world. That was the first that I begin questioning the way the economy is in this world and the way that poor people are treated.""His soul full of coal dust till his body's decayed.
And everyone but black lung's done turned him away."
Seems pretty clear: Dirty coal, criminal coal, criminal system.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Quotes of the day, by way of Francesca Martinez at a "This Changes Everything" event -- via @NaomiKlein
a key part of social
change is to challenge the toxic ideas that disempower people and strip them of
their confidence and their belief that change is possible
climate change is a physical manifestation of these disgusting ideals, these ideals of greed, of individualism, of materialism, they are literally killing the planet, and they are also creating mass suffering
the first step to create a better world is to believe in one
climate change is a physical manifestation of these disgusting ideals, these ideals of greed, of individualism, of materialism, they are literally killing the planet, and they are also creating mass suffering
the first step to create a better world is to believe in one
we have to be made to
believe we are not good enough the way we are so that we go out and buy shit we don’t need
accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience
accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience
everything good about
society today was won by people who focused outwards, not inwards
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