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carbontax

3,500 economists call for carbon tax/carbon dividend. America isn’t listening.

January 30, 2020 Renee Shur Energy, Environment, Ideas Leave a comment

Here’s a riddle. How many economists does it take to sound the alarm on the need for immediate action to address global climate change?

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New York

New York says no to Trump’s offshore drilling expansion

May 4, 2019 Renee Shur Energy, Environment, States Leave a comment

New York State has approximately 2,625 miles of coastline. There are, of course, a myriad of reasons for protecting the state’s coastline. Beyond the

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Tracking Trump’s regulatory rollbacks: so far, so bad

August 19, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Community/Common good, Consumer issues, Energy, Environment, Good government, Trump 3 comments

While Donald Trump distracts us with bellicose pronouncements and internecine White House wars, his henchmen in regulatory agencies are methodically rolling back decades of

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Climate Change Scientists

“A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists”

April 15, 2017 Renee Shur Activism, Climate Change, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Trump Leave a comment

At the annual gathering of The American Geophysical Union in fall of 2016, more than twenty-three thousand earth and space scientists from around the

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Tillerson

Rex Tillerson: What does he really think about climate change? Who knows?

December 14, 2016 Renee Shur 2016 Election, Energy, Environment One comment

Donald Trump’s pick of Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State sends a chilling message about the new administration’s commitment to addressing the challenges of

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Teaching the reality of climate change, one classroom at a time

May 2, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Politics, Religion in Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Science 3 comments

You wouldn’t think that it would be controversial for a journalism professor to come to high schools in the Midwest to discuss his reporting

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Landfill fire

STL landfill fire nears collision with radioactive waste: What’s next?

April 18, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Cities, Energy, Environment, History, Missouri region, Nuclear weapons 4 comments

What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump?  St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In

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Keystone pipeline vote: corporate money trumps public good

February 6, 2015 Madonna Gauding Climate Change, Congress, Energy, Environment, Obama Leave a comment

The fossil-fuel industry is reaping the rewards of its three-quarters of a billion dollar investment to secure a Republican controlled congress. But they weren’t just buying

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Claire McCaskill’s doomed love affair with Keystone XL

February 2, 2015 Willy Kessler Congress, Energy, Environment, Missouri region, Senate One comment

Today Claire McCaskill did it. She voted with all Senate Republicans and nine Senate Democrats to pass the House’s Keystone XL authorization. Of course,

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Health risks demand a moratorium on fracking

September 2, 2014 Barton Schoenfeld Activism, Consumer issues, Energy, Environment, States Leave a comment

A rapidly growing body of research demonstrates that hydraulic fracturing poses dangers not only to the environment but to people’s health. Once contamination occurs

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