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Solar Powered Plane To Take Flight In Switzerland (Again)
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World's Largest Solar Thermal Plant
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A Sexy Little Black Dress That Doubles Up as a Cellphone
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NASA Space Settlements
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The Cost of Going Solar and How To Do the Math
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Nature Editorial Slams GOP For Anti-Science Tendencies
There is no getting around the fact that the U.S. Republican Party simply hates science. It didn’t used to be that way. But it is now, and the timing of a recent uptick in this phenomenon couldn't be worse. “The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in the United States is the last thing the country needs in a time of economic challenge.” That is the subtitle of an excellent editorial today in the journ..
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Koch Industries Funds Attack on Science Linking Formaldehyde and Cancer
Further revelations have come to light since the recent controversial expose in the New Yorker about Koch Industries, surrounding New York billionaire David Koch and his company’s involvement in the industry-led effort to downplay the links between formaldehyde and cancer. In 2008, the president of one of Koch Industry's subsidiaries sat as the Chair of a pro-Formaldehyde lobby group called the Formaldehyde Council. The subsidiary, Georgia-..
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Koch Industries Donates $1 Million To Prop 23 Effort To Kill California Climate Law
David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers bankrolling the front groups behind the Tea Party and climate denial movement, have added another 'cause' to their philanthropic endeavors, donating $1 million to the Proposition 23 fight to kill California's landmark 2006 climate change legislation.Koch subsidiary Flint Hills Resources LP handled the laundry duties on this one, but the directive surely came from the heads of the Kochtopus empire -..
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EPA Ignores Tennessee and Alabama Coal Ash Victims, Nearest Hearing Is 260 Miles From TVA Disaster Site
TVA coal ash.jpeg September is back to school month, but the next big test for the White House and EPA has already begun. How the Obama administration handles the proposed regulation of coal ash - the toxic waste left over from coal-burning power plants loaded with mercury, lead, and arsenic - will serve as a key indicator of the administration's sincerity in responding to one of the worst..
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The Uneven Energy Playing Field and the Spindoctors who Ignore it
There has been a recent surge in articles from fossil-fuel friendly sources pointing to the inequity of tax credits and government subsidies being directed to the renewable energy sector. The latest is by Alan Caruba writing on the industry-backed CFACT website bemoaning a $7 million investment in a wind project in New Jersey. What Caruba and others fail to mention in their argument is that the fossil fuel industry - the main competit..
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Washington Post Editorial Slams Ken Cuccinelli "Embarrassing" Witch Hunt Against Climate Scientist
ken_cuccinelli_370x278.jpeg The Washington Post penned an excellent editorial yesterday deriding Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's political attack against climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, a former UVA professor whom Cuccinelli has targeted in a witch hunt. The Post editorial notes that "the overblown critique of climate science that emerged early this year continues to un..
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On Factual Literacy and Media Responsibility In The Age Of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh
This New York Times online editorial last week by Tim Egan, "Building a Nation of Know-Nothings," says a lot about the need for literacy, respect for facts and rational thought all being important building blocks for democracy. Egan notes the "astonishing level of willful ignorance" evident among the public, thanks to the lies and distortions put forward "largely by design" by Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, "aided by a press afr..
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Clean energy drowned out in Washington by a Two Billion Dollar Juggernaut
capitol coal.JPG Red State bloggers are all in a tizzy over an Open Secrets article showing that the American Wind Energy Association spent over $5 million last year on lobbying politicians in Washington, DC. It's about time we started seeing the clean energy sector make its voice heard on Capitol Hill and I hope we see more people pushing lawmakers to consider legislation that promotes the..
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Bjorn Lomborg Now Says Climate Change “Chief Concern,” Calls for Carbon Tax
bjorn-lomborg.jpeg The Guardian reports today that long-time global warming contrarian Bjorn Lomborg has changed his tune a bit, and now acknowledges that climate change is "a challenge humanity must confront." In an interview with the paper, Lomborg calls for a carbon tax and a $100 billion annual investment in clean technologies and other solutions to climate disruption...
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The Koch Industry and Americans for Prosperity Machine Exposed
The fallout continues from a very comprehensive New Yorker report exposing Koch Industries massive ideological machine with an opinion piece in the Sunday New York Times by columnist Frank Rich called: The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party. Out in front of this controversy is a group called the Americans for Prosperity that has recieved millions from Koch Industries and has been touring the United States spreading misinformation about t..
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