Posted May 15, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil
Washington’s political wars rarely match reality back home. So when politicians and K Street lobbyists peddle the $7 billion Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, you can bet the red meat rhetoric about jobs and national security—fanciful charges according to independent analysis—is straight...continued→
Posted May 4, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
TransCanada’s latest Keystone XL tar sands pipeline plan filed with the U.S. State Department has done nothing to quell local Nebraska opposition to the controversial project to pipe tar sands oil all the way to the Gulf for export. Nebraska residents say...continued→
Posted April 27, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
The second memorial of the nation’s worst oil catastrophe has come and gone, forever linked to Earth Day and seared into the psyches of millions of Gulf residents and fishermen. In recent weeks, the media has unleashed a torrent of stories about the devastating...continued→
Posted April 18, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil
“Never let injustice shut you up. When you see injustice you must stand up. It’s going to hurt sometimes. It’s going to cost you something. But you can never, never allow injustice in your presence and sit silently by and...continued→
Posted April 3, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest this week to join a 48-hour hunger strike in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline—and all tar sands pipelines—they say will destroy precious water resources and ancestral lands in the...continued→
Posted March 29, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
Since BP’s catastrophic oil blowout nearly two years ago, Laurel Lockamy has gotten pretty good at photographing the dead. She’s snapped images of dozens of lifeless turtles and dolphins, countless dead fish, birds, armadillos and nutria and pretty much anything that crawls,...continued→
Posted March 21, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
With news that President Obama will fast track the building of the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Texans in its path say their health and property rights are endangered by a torrent of corrosive tar sands oil that will flow...continued→
Posted March 16, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
Gloria Trevino doesn’t need a Washington politician to tell her that a daily gusher of Canadian tar sands crude won’t do her air in south Houston any favors. Surrounded by massive petrochemical plants, she and her neighbors in this industrial community already breathe...continued→
Posted March 13, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil
For all the pompous prognostications by Keystone XL tar sands pipeline boosters in Congress about jobs and economic impacts, you don’t have to look much further than the devastated communities of the Kalamazoo River to get to the truth about...continued→
Posted March 8, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
Down in Texas there’s an old saying; “You can put your boots in the oven but it don’t make them biscuits.” That’s an expression Washington politicians and their Keystone XL tar sands pipeline allies should take to heart. Texas landowners say...continued→
Posted February 29, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
As TransCanada announced it would begin building the southern leg of its Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas—setting the stage for a new Congressional battle over the transnational pipeline—Michigan residents are worried about a massive tar sands...continued→
Posted February 19, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil
As Congressional Republicans and Big Oil allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on the frontlines have opened a new campaign to stop the massive $7 billion project. In Texas, landowners are locking arms to fight would-be pipeline builder...continued→
Posted February 8, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Up in the frozen arctic, where polar bear rule over a biogem world, massive oil drilling plans threaten the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Shell, the oil behemoth that made $4.8 billion in profits last quarter, intends to boost those numbers by drilling in the Beaufort and...continued→
Posted February 6, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
Take millions of gallons of natural gas hydro-fracking waste water then pour it down a hole dug thousands of feet down into the bedrock and what do you get? Well, according to the U.S. Department of Energy and other experts, you may get a whole lotta...continued→
Posted January 31, 2012 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
About halfway between St. Louis and Chicago, nestled in the fertile corn and soybean fields of Illinois, a quiet electric car revolution is sprouting up in the town of Normal, a town that in some ways is anything but. That’s because this vibrant, forward-looking...continued→
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