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Obama loves fracking

August 27, 2013 Madonna Gauding Energy, Environment, Obama, Public safety 4 comments

A friend of mine recently hosted a home screening of the documentary Gasland 2 by Josh Fox. The film exposes the environmental and health dangers of

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Van Jones: “If Obama believes Keystone is a good thing, he should call it the Obama Tar Sands Pipeline.”

June 17, 2013 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Climate Change, Environment, Obama One comment

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the

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Garbage Patch nation: UN declares plastic trash to be a “country”

April 22, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Environment, International One comment

Plastic trash takes up so much territory in Earth’s oceans that is has been designated a “country” by the United Nations. The new “country”

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Agribusiness: worst way to feed the world

November 12, 2012 Madonna Gauding Consumer issues, Corporations, Health, Science Leave a comment

If you want to know the real story about what you eat, check out the website for “Food MythBusters.” Here’s what Food MythBusters is

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Alarming disappearance of Arctic sea ice

October 5, 2012 Madonna Gauding Climate Change, Environment, Science Leave a comment

Climate change is real and presents a huge threat to life on Earth. It’s not a “theory;” it’s a reality, and it’s happening before

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Obama sets new auto fuel efficiency standards: 54.5 mpg by 2025

August 31, 2012 Madonna Gauding Economy, Environment, Good government Leave a comment

When adding up the accomplishments of the Obama administration, the increase in auto fuel efficiency standards, also known by the acronym CAFE (Corporate Average

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Bill Mckibben: “Global warming’s terrifying new math”

August 7, 2012 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Energy, Environment, Government One comment

If you want to know where we stand with global warming, read Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking new piece in Rolling Stone, “Global Warming’s Terryifying New

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Extreme weather convinces Americans: Global warming is real

May 22, 2012 Madonna Gauding Energy, Environment, Government Leave a comment

Corporations have debunked it, media has ignored it, and conservative politicians have fought it, but in spite of these self-serving efforts at denial, Americans

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Fracking: Why corporate-driven energy policy is bad for America

May 3, 2012 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Energy, Environment Leave a comment

ROBERT KUDLOW: Won’t this natural gas fracking revolution really change America, change business, make us more competitive, and help people with utility bills at

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Info overload: 10 newsy bits too good to miss

June 17, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Energy, Environment, Humor, Ideas, Infrastructure, International, Technology Leave a comment

Filed under TMI: Every week, there’s just too much information on the web, and a lot of stuff just gets lost in the shuffle.

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