More GQP spotted owl-isms, riffing on culture war again because Moscow Mitch claimed last year that the Democrats’ nanny-state will regulate 'how many hamburgers you can…
Posts published in “Environment”
Do we really have the will to prosecute Trump for anything? Or will he escape yet again because he’ll try to bargain his way out…
Change as a rising tide seems to be falling short as history’s stream is not as mighty. Apparently slavery is still “ordained by God for ultimate…
Not about authoritarian horseshoes or even close hand grenades. The “environmental” claims of RWNjs or even wise use advocates is also about corporate land use, private…
In the choice between wolf predation and human predation wolf culling seems more about sport than the economic threat to herds. Subsidizing trapping and killing with…
As with emissions controls, California leads the nation. This is another BFD, just like federal fleets, etc. And can’t come soon enough, if only to…
The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in…
Scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret from the genes of an animal named Willa that had died over thirty years ago. After Willa…
Texas is the coalmine canary of failures in the GQP’s industrial policy. The “clusterfuzzle” appears to be only in Texas: perhaps they skimmed on costs…
As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by neoliberal financialization. An earlier…
M-i-c-k-e-y, Why because we like it. M-M-MMT. “We collectively decide just what counts as a resource, economic base, or productive work.” OTOH, it could all…
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on…
Is the Market for Lemons like the market for lemonade or even Don Lemon. Asymmetric information is everywhere, the example of the used-car salesman synonymous…
Donald Trump has been plotting to screw our climate and kill off the diversity of life for four years. This isn’t hyperbole; he has devasted critical…
“When this campaign began, we said ‘not one acre.’ We meant it.” Patrick Donnelly, Center for Biological Diversity In early July of 2020, GOP Utah Congressional Representative…
Donald Trump has frequently referred to COVID-19 as an “invisible enemy” — which may be why he’s pretending he doesn’t see it. The coronavirus outbreak…
“Most importantly, Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate…
That debate was revelatory, because we were exposed to yet another Trump falsehood about that raking of forest floors, because he’s king Swidden. And we…
Someone wet-vac the McNugget sauce off Donald Trump’s adipose-cascading carcass and wake him up. GE has a message for him: Coal is over. You can stop…
Feral pigs are the crying-wolf excuse for some firearm owners, as though the average hunter needed a modern sporting rifle (semi-auto long gun with large…
This happened earlier this week: A former top aide to former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said in an op-ed published on Sunday that she would not back…
Good: Montana's Democratic governor asked a federal judge Aug. 20 to take swift action to remove the Trump administration's chief steward of public lands, as…
Climate change denier Donald Trump has been credibly accused by his former DHS Chief of Staff (Miles Taylor) of ordering FEMA to withhold funds for…
Trump has pimped for the fossil fuel industries because it’s still about money, just like dialing back some election promises in order to reinstate them…
Nature rules, because there are naturalism arguments. Hunter King, a drone pilot at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), was monitoring…
Some good news today out of Massachusetts: x *7/29-30— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 31, 2020 Click here to read the full results. Past polling showed…
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the White House Council of Economic Advisors now reduced to one…
Trump’s going to have to do more than “lobstering” proclamations to save Susan Collins. Actually, Trump’s tariff war with China has damaged the Maine fisheries. x…
Received this e-mail from the League of Conservation Voters: At this moment, it is imperative that we elect candidates up and down the ballot who…
We are getting a pretty good look at what a rapid transition to green energy would look like if we ever act to slow down…
First, the bad news. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. hemorrhaged 701,000 jobs in March, and since jobless claims are currently in…
Received this e-mail today from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Last week we asked for you to tell us which of Joe Biden’s…
Two years ago the United States became the world’s largest petroleum producer due to oil extracted by fracking oil shale deposits. Monday, the oil fracking boom…
The massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was an environmental calamity of epic proportions. Two hundred and five million gallons of crude oil and…
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever…
Overview Since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s Presidency, we have attempted to catalog all of the harmful actions committed by his administration. Furthermore, by…
I have just always liked that the NY Times refers to him as “Mr. Loaf” x Meat Loaf says Greta Thunberg has been 'brainwashed' over…
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever…
In the middle of unprecedented bushfires, a wave that’s a direct result of global warming, which have been casting blood-red skies over major cities, destroying…
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As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever…
EV Thursday – Electric 2020. Every Electric Car Coming Out Compared In Every Way! (Infographics) 3/3
EV Thursday – Electric 2020. Every Electric Car Coming Out Compared In Every Way! (Infographics) 3/3
This is part three of our three-part series comparing all major electric vehicles that will be on sale in the US in 2020. For “Part…
EV Wednesday- Electric 2020. Every Electric Car Coming Out Compared In Every Way! (Infographics) 2/3
EV Wednesday- Electric 2020. Every Electric Car Coming Out Compared In Every Way! (Infographics) 2/3
This is part two of our three-part series comparing all major electric vehicles that will be on sale in the US in 2020. For “Part…
EV Tuesday – Electric 2020. Every Electric Car Coming Out, Compared In Every Way! (Infographics) 1/3
EV Tuesday – Electric 2020. Every Electric Car Coming Out, Compared In Every Way! (Infographics) 1/3
2020 is almost upon us, and there’s many people out there who will be making a New Year’s resolution to buy a new electric car…
As discussed previously, the lawsuits against VW working their way through the German court system have uncovered what appears to be a new emissions defeat…
www.miamiherald.com/… The Miami Herald reports that Monroe County Florida is considering abandoning low lying roads in the Florida Keys that will be extremely expensive to…
Really? Noooooooo! This was pointed out yesterday by Philip Bump of The Washington Post after his colleague, Philip Rucker, asked Trump whether he thinks about…
