Conservation

Big Oil Funding Anti-ACES Protests

 |  Aug 12, 2009

Polluters have already spent more than $100 million dollars trying to kill comprehensive climate and energy legislation. That money has wound up funding everything from misleading TV ads to forged … Read more

New Poll: 71% Back Climate Bill

 |  Aug 11, 2009

A new Zogby International poll released today shows seven in ten likely voters favor the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, the comprehensive climate and clean energy bill that … Read more

Dirty Politics for Dirty Fuels

 |  Aug 8, 2009

(as published in National Wildlife Federation’s National Wildlife, Aug/Sept. 2009) Many of you wrote letters and placed phone calls to your members of Congress in support of the American Clean … Read more

How Does The “Cloud Ship” Idea Strike You?

 |  Aug 8, 2009

A new climate change-fighting idea being “floated” in the “global engineering” realm is to build a fleet of ships that pushes sea water into the sky to make reflective white … Read more

Polluter Front Group Lies About Big Oil Funding

 |  Aug 7, 2009

Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity, was a guest on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show last night. AFP has spent years fighting against clean energy and climate action, working … Read more

Reno 911! Global Warming Threatens Biggest Little City in the World

 |  Aug 7, 2009

Could the short-shorts so infamously worn by a character on Comedy Central’s Reno 911! ever be appropriate? What if average temperatures rise 11 degrees in the lifetime of a child … Read more

If That’s An Army, What’s NWF?

 |  Aug 6, 2009

Remember the “American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity” (ACCCE)? That’s the group that hired a lobbying firm in an effort to stop comprehensive climate & energy legislation. The lobbying firm … Read more

Solar Plant in Colorado Will Generate New Jobs

 |  Aug 5, 2009

A new solar plant in Colorado is generating power and 200 new jobs. Amy Lou Jenkins at Examiner.com reports: “Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar visted the High-Tech Solar Panel Plant in … Read more

California Start-up eSolar Switches on Solar Thermal Plant: Powers 4,000 Homes

 |  Aug 5, 2009

A new solar plant in California uses algorithms to power 4,000 homes. Rick Merritt at EETimes.com reports: “The 5 MW Sierra SunTower solar power plant in Lancaster, California, will produce … Read more

Highlight of the Week – Lobbying Firm Nabbed for Fraudulent Letters Opposing Clean Energy

 |  Aug 5, 2009

It seems opponents of clean energy are increasingly resorting to dirty tactics in their fight against climate legislation. Washington lobbying group Bonner & Associates recently sent fraudulent letters to U.S. … Read more