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Corporations Jump Ship

Thursday’s release of a Heartland Institute billboard campaign comparing those who believe in global warming to Ted Kaczynski sent immediate waves of horror, shock, and disgust across the world. Within a few hours, the campaign had raised such a fury of negative response that the climate-denier organization announced its intention to pull the billboards, though the organization has yet to offer an apology for its highly offensive campaign.

The Heartland Institute’s inflammatory shock tactics and ...More

Absurd and Offensive

The Heartland Institute has launched their most offensive campaign yet. The climate-denier thinktank has placed a series of billboards around Chicago comparing anyone who believes in global warming to mass murderers and terrorists in what the UK Guardian calls “possibly one of the most ill-judged poster campaigns in the history of ill-judged poster campaigns.”

The group’s own press release veers into absurdism:

Billboards in Chicago paid for by The Heartland Institute point out that some of the ...More

School for Scandal

There’s been a lot of debate over fracking, drilling, and oil pipelines recently. The dangers of groundwater contamination from the water- and chemical-heavy processes of fracking are coming into the public view, while an ExxonMobil pipeline has polluted Montana’s water supplies with over 63,000 gallons of crude oil, and tar balls from BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion are still washing up on Gulf coasts nearly two years after the incident.

Yet Fox News – the biggest ...More

Op-Ed: Gas Prices Aren’t Hurting Romney

This morning’s Politico featured an op-ed by LCV President Gene Karpinski and Priorities USA Action senior strategist Bill Burton pointing out the correlation between high gas prices and Mitt Romney’s political fortunes. Despite stump claims that he wants to bring gas prices down, Romney’s staunchest supporters are oil interests –and when they profit, so does he. Big Oil’s pledged $200 million to help Romney’s campaign and defeat Obama.

“What does Big Oil get in return for ...More

Connect the Dots

Natural disasters are breaking records with crushing heat-waves, devastating floods, and increasingly frequent and destructive storms. Around the world, communities are being destroyed and people are dying, but sometimes it’s hard to see the connections.

“The only plausible explanation for the rise in weather-extreme catastrophes is climate change.” –Munich Re, world’s largest reinsurance company.

Climate Impacts Day is a global action day to highlight the connections between climate change and extreme weather on May 5, 2012. ...More

ALEC Attacking Wind Next

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is an organization that writes voting-ready state legislation to hand to overextended politicians, giving them the chance to get bills passed quickly and efficiently. Sounds like a friendly group, right?

Unless the organization was funded almost entirely by corporate special interests pushing laws that benefit their bottom line at the expense of the public interest. ALEC’s legislation is corporate protectionism at its worst – downsizing government, knocking down ...More

Green Voters Go on the Offensive

Roll Call today published a great piece about LCV’s efforts to ramp our legislative accountability and political programs, saying:

When Democratic strategist Bill Burton went looking for a partner to help his super PAC launch a $1 million ad campaign announced last week, he had more than one reason to knock on the door of the League of Conservation Voters.

The 43-year-old environmental group has ramped up both its political spending and its lobbying activity this year. ...More

Coal: Worse Than You Thought

We know that coal-fired power plants are bad for our health. The American Lung Association has just released the State of the Air Report, finding that 41 percent of Americans suffer from pollutions levels that are often dangerous to breathe, and carbon pollution has been linked to higher instances of childhood asthma.

However, we might not know just how bad coal-fired power really is. The twenty-six coal-fired power plants owned wholly or in part ...More