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Ted Turner: Keystone XL massive potential disaster

Ted Turner, founder and chairman of the United Nations Foundation and founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting, released an op-ed against TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline this morning. In it, Turner says, “The route through the United States is actually the oil industry's second choice: Transporting the oil west from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would be shorter and much cheaper, but Canadians concerned about environmental impacts and threats to native people's lands are challenging that route, and with good ...More

The Cost of Mercury Standards

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) announced plans last Thursday to force a vote on killing the recently published Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules limiting emissions of mercury and other air toxics from coal-fired power plants. After casting numerous House votes to restrict the EPA’s jurisdiction and cripple its power, Inhofe’s resolution to limit EPA powers from another direction should come as no surprise.

Despite the Clean Air Act Amendments passed in 1990, requiring the EPA to assess the impacts of mercury ...More

A Second Front in the Climate War

Sidestepping the slow progress of international climate change negotiations, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this morning announced a State Department initiative to reduce emissions of the common short-lived pollutants. Joining the program announcement were officials from Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden, and the United Nations Environment Program. According to the NYT, the seed funding for the international program will consist of $12 million from the United States, and $3 million from Canada.

While carbon ...More

More Than 800,000 Messages

In an amazing showing of online activism, a coalition of 30 groups flooded the Senate with more than 800,000 messages opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in just 24 hours!!

"In only 24 hours, hundreds of thousands of people stood up to Big Oil and demanded that the Senate do the same by opposing all efforts to approve the harmful Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that the Obama administration wisely rejected," said LCV President Gene Karpinski. "Americans across the country ...More

24 Hours to Stop Keystone XL

Post from LCV Communications Associate Lea Brumfield:

Despite the Obama administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline less than a month ago, Republican leaders in the Senate and Big Oil are trying to resurrect the toxic oil pipeline.

Having failed to pass the Keystone XL bill as a piece of stand-alone legislation, supporters of the pipeline are trying to attach a new provision for the pipeline to an infrastructure bill with bipartisan support. currently being debated ...More

Big Oil's Banner Year

The five largest oil companies -- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell -- made a record-high $137 billion in profits in 2011. That's up 75 percent from 2010. Additionally, these oil giants have made more than $1 trillion in profits from 2001 through 2011. This exceeds the previous record of $136 billion in profits in 2008.

At the same time, Big Oil continues to benefit from billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies. Check out this report ...More

2011 National Environmental Scorecard

In 2011, the Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives unleashed a truly breathtaking and unprecedented assault on the environment and public health, the breadth and depth of which have made the current House of Representatives the most anti-environment in our nation’s history. The 2011 National Environmental Scorecard is a sad testament to the radical nature of the first session of the 112th Congress in the House.

Click here to view and download the 2011 ...More

Holding TV Meteorologists Accountable

If you’ve tuned into your local TV weather report lately, there’s a chance you may heard some crazy ideas about climate change. Take San Diego weatherman John Coleman, who said on air:

“It’s amazing to me … how many billions of dollars apparently our governments are going to spend of our tax dollars to combat something that isn’t real … As a scientist, I know that global warming doesn’t really exist at all.”

Sadly, Coleman is not alone. Nearly half of TV meteorologists doubt ...More