Tony Iallonardo’s Archive

Super Potent Rat Poison Harms Wildlife, Pets & Kids

A super-toxic type of rodenticide has flooded the market in recent decades, a concoction more toxic than traditional rat poisons and more persistent in the environment. Read more

Will Keystone XL Spoil Your Holidays?

One of the sadder rituals in the nation’s capital is the “December surprise,” whereby the administration in power makes controversial pronouncements right around a major holiday. I’d be willing to … Read more

Poll – Keystone XL Pummeled by Clean Energy

National Wildlife Federation released results of a Zogby commissioned poll covering several climate and energy issues.  The poll, done just after the election, finds support for Keystone XL was dwarfed … Read more

New Chevron Money Dump as Unprecedented Polluter Cash Flows

Polluters this election year are doing the equivalent of betting it all.  They’re spending unprecedented amounts of cash to influence the election in the hopes of electing policy makers who will … Read more

Where is the climate debate?: New Hampshire

The political debates are heating up this fall, like the planet, and yet, while candidates across the country debate issues like the future of Medicare, Afghanistan and the federal deficit, there’s rarely mention of our warming planet, much less a solution offered. Read more

NWF Tells Fox News – Enbridge Pipeline Could Cause Terrible Spill

When NASDAQ seemed to connect a temporary drop in shares of tar sands pipeline company Enbidge to a new report from NWF, it got the attention of Fox Business News’ … Read more

Original Keystone Pipeline Shuts Down, Safety a Concern

Today, TransCanada, the energy giant proposing to build the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline announced it is shutting the original Keystone pipeline it operates. They say the line will … Read more

Exxon’s Stealth Moves to Run Tar Sands into New England

We’ve written before about Big Oil’s new playbook on tar sands: using stealth tactics to make it harder for the public to figure out what dangerous projects they have in mind and … Read more

Keystone and the Cops: Grandma Arrested Defending her Land from Pipeline

The streets of east Texas are safer now that great grandmother Eleanor Fairchild is in the clink.  The charge: trespassing on her own land. Ms. Fairchild was trying to stop destruction of … Read more

TransCanada – The Neighbor from Hell for Many Landowners

The company that’s been bullying landowners across the U.S. to put the dangerous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline under their private land wants you to feel okay about it.  So … Read more