photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network is working to bring attention to largest ever proposed mountaintop removal site–the Spring mine in Blair, West Virginia. Activists showed up at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C and promptly dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt on the sidewalk. RAN’s message: “EPA: Don’t Let King Coal Dump On Appalachia.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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RAN Protests Spruce Mine at EPA HQ
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‘Pulpo Paul’ sits on a box with decorated with a Spanish flag. AFP photo via Hürriyet Daily News While fans of Spain and the Netherlands wait with bated breath to see which team will come out on top in tomorrow’s World Cup championship match, the owners of a Ger… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Psychic’ Octopus Picks Spain as World Cup Champ (Video)
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Barton apologizing to BP (photo via flickr) The word has gone out to the conservative establishment that Obama can’t “win” on the BP oil spill and that labels, accusations, and lies are needed to change the framing of the story from one in which the president takes deliberate and necessary action to one in which he’s let the country down. Last week, Rep. Joe Barton sparked the meme that Obama is a “shakedown” artist who is pressuring a private corporation into action. Although his peers in his own party ran for cover … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Conservative Meme: Obama Forces "Shakedowns," "Show Trials" Over Spill
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photo via flickr BP’s stock prices are tanking and its reputation is shot, but that’s not stopping the oil giant from trying to repair its loses through public relations. Earlier this week, it announced that it would bring in Dick Cheney’s former press secretary Anne Womack-Kolton , and now BP CEO Tony Hayward is starring new in TV ads designed to show contrition for the worst oil gusher in US history. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Ups Its PR Response, Goes On TV With Ads
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photo via flickr While scientists say we need to peak our emissions by 2015 and then dramatically reduce them thereafter, the US is projected to actually increase our greenhouse gas emissions through 2020, according to estimates from the government to the United Nations. CO2 emissions are expected to rise about 1.5 percent and overall climate-warming pollution could go up by 4 percent. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US GHG Emissions Set To Increase Through 2020
photo via flickr If it’s bad and it’s related to oil, you know Dick Cheney must be involved in some way. This was true from 2000-2008 and it’s just as true today. Cheney’s press secretary during his 2004, Anne Womack-Kolton, has been hired by BP to lead its US media team. Womack-Kolton ran the public affairs team in the Bush Department of Energy and defended Cheney’s secret meetings with oil company executives in 2001. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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