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Environmentalists, developers clash over how to deal with the rising tide

By: Alastair Bland 07/03/11 4:00 AM
Cargill Salt
As weather patterns take unprecedented turns and polar bears step through soft spots in the sea ice, the subject of climate change continues to generate quarrels. At the federal level, hot air howls among lawmakers, who bicker over emission-reduction goals of the distant future, while a few media pundits still reject the notion that the world is changing. Read More

Bracing for climate change in the San Francisco Bay Area

By: Dan Schreiber 05/04/11 4:00 AM
San Francisco Bay levee
Imagine it’s 2035 and you’re driving into San Francisco on the Golden Gate Bridge. You look out toward the ocean and see ships waiting in a line while a giant metal apparatus closes off the mouth of the Bay, stopping the incoming high tide from flooding the low-lying urban waterfront. Read More

Energy and climate czar Carol Browner leaving White House

By: Mark Hemingway 01/25/11 6:04 AM
Carol Browner, the former Clinton EPA head and the Obama's top energy and climate czar, is leaving the White House: Read More

Website launches first global climate art project

By: Sarah Haughey 12/12/10 11:20 PM
To raise awareness about climate change, Heidi Quante, coordinator of 350 EARTH, recently launched the world’s first ever global climate art project. From Nov. 20-28, artists across the globe created installations large enough to be seen from space. For information, visit 350.org. Read More

Big Green leader warns House GOP to forget popular will, do what enviros tell them to do. Or else

By: Mark Tapscott 11/08/10 10:00 PM
Republicans just won the biggest mid-term election victory since before World War II in a massive repudiation of President Obama's unprecedented expansion of federal spending, regulation and debt. Read More

James 'Avatar' Cameron says we have to live with less. So when does he start?

By: Mark Tapscott 10/19/10 7:00 PM
James Cameron, filmmaker and prominent Global Warming activist, recently told The Los Angeles Times that we have to accept the fact that we must live with less in order to save the environment. Easy for him to say, but funny, I don't recall seeing For Sale Notices on his three houses in Malibu, JetRanger helicopter, three Harleys, Corvette, Ducati, Ford GT, yacht, submarine fleet, lavish mountain resort, fleet of dirt bikes, etc. etc. etc. Read More

Big Green Update: Opponents flood California with anti-Prop 23 agit-prop

By: Mark Tapscott 10/14/10 9:00 PM
Big Green environmental radicals are beside themselves over the prospect of passage of California's Ballot Proposition 23, the imminently reasonable idea of temporarily suspending draconian anti-global warming regulations until statewide unemployment dips below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. Read More

Pajamas TV releases Big Green 3: BP, GE and the world's first carbon billionaires

By: Mark Tapscott 10/11/10 9:00 PM
Did you know that every time Washington issues a new environmental regulation somebody loses and somebody profits? Did you know that being an activist working for new environmental regulation can be a very lucrative way to make a living?  Read More

Osama Goes Green

By: Nate Beeler 10/02/10 12:00 AM
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‘Obama is anti-business’ is really a cry for more corporate welfare

By: Timothy P. Carney 09/26/10 12:00 AM
The words “subsidy” and “government” don’t actually appear in this Bloomberg story, but that’s what General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt was talking about in his complaints about the lack of a U.S. energy policy: You actually have to have an energy policy,” Immelt said. “It’s stupid what we have today.” Read More

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