The Waxman-Markey American
Archive for May, 2009
Carbon Trading: flaw at the heart of Democrats
May 29th, 2009
written by Oscar Reyes
The oil, gas and coal industry lobbyists who have spent almost $45 million on President Obama
Climate change solutions cannot be created by unfettered markets, despite what business leaders think
by Oscar Reyes
Tags: big business, cap-and-trade, COP15, government, greenwash, land grab, REDD, trees and forests | 
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The Catch-22 of Waxman-Markey: Is Offsetting Inevitable?
May 28th, 2009
Protesters clashed with
The True Cost of Chevron- An Alternative Annual Report
May 26th, 2009
Chevron’s 2008 annual report is a glossy celebration of the company’s most profitable year in its history.
What Chevron’s annual report does not tell its shareholders is the true cost paid for those financial returns, or the global movement gaining voice and strength against Chevron’s abuses. Read the rest of this entry »
Your Field Guide to Climate Action this Summer
May 25th, 2009
(reposted from www.risingtidenorthamerica.org)
Climate Ground Zero, West Virginia, All Summer
Come to West Virginia to take direct action against mountaintop removal coal mining. CGZ will be coordinating action training camps and organizing actions against coal companies destroying the mountains and communities of WV. We will have non-violence and other trainings, a kitchen and people who can explain the corrupt practice of MTR. We are hoping to shut down the sites on an ongoing basis all summer long. But we need your help.
Contact Guin at 304-854-7372, guinstigator@yahoo.com
Cascadia Summer 2009
The Pacific Northwest is looking hot for direct action this summer with plans for massive public lands logging on the table. Thanks to a scheme called the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR) passed by Bush at the last minute around 25,000 acres of public lands will be cut. That
Breaking News: Civil Disobedience at WV Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Impoundment Sites
May 23rd, 2009
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Native American Environmental Leader Tom Goldtooth: Climate Change Bill Fails to Address Indigenous Rights
May 22nd, 2009
Tom Goldtooth is executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. For over thirty years, he has been an environmental and economic justice leader in the Native American community. He joins us to talk about the congressional climate change bill and Native American efforts to address the resource extractions causing environmental degradation in their communities.
To continue the discussion about climate change, we are now joined by Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. He is in New York this week for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. For over 30 years he has been an environmental and economic justice leader in the Native American community. Tom Goldtooth, welcome to Democracy Now.
Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. He is Dine
[caption id=”" align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”Participants from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Protest Belgium for their recent planting of a genetically engineered test plot.
Will microbes give us clean coal?
May 22nd, 2009
Jim Thomas 22/05/2009 – ETC Group
Clean Coal from Hungry Microbes?
Hungry microbial organisms that eat coal and excrete clean-burning methane gas
Waxman-Markey Could Give 2.5 Times More Money to Foreign Offsets than U.S. Clean Energy
May 22nd, 2009
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CONGRESS: CAP-N-TRADE PASSES COMMITTEE
May 22nd, 2009
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Politico: “After a one-two punch from Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney, House Minority Leader John Boehner and other Republican lawmakers worry that their party has overplayed its hand on Nancy Pelosi. The Republicans
REPORT: Danish Government shows that they invited business groups to set up the World Business Summit on Climate Change
May 20th, 2009
by Polyp - climategreenwash.org
The Danish government, which will host the crucial UN climate summit in December, wants to create an alliance with big business to promote an ambitious international climate agreement. As a result, it it has helped facilitate what may be this year
Breaking: EPA Clears Waterboarding Permits for Appalachia
May 15th, 2009
As American citizens in Mingo County and other areas of the flood-stricken Kentucky and West Virginia coalfields continue to dig themselves out of the muck, indefatigable Charleston Gazette reporter Ken Ward is reporting on his Coal Tattoo blog that the EPA has “signed off on almost all (87.5 percent, to be exact) of the mountaintop removal permits that has so far been reviewed under the initiative announced in March.”
Ward has just posted a letter dated yesterday from the EPA to US Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), announcing that:
“EPA has raised environmental concerns with six pending permit applications in the Corps’ Huntington District out of a total of approximately forty-eight we have reviewed. We have advised the Corps that EPA does not intend to provide additional comments on the remaining forty-two permits. The Corps may proceed with appropriate permit decisions on those remaining projects.”
Read that line again: Have 42 out of 48 permits for mountaintop removal — the process of blowing up our nation’s oldest and most diverse mountains, razing historic communities, poisoning watersheds, and causing massive erosion and flooding, which Vice President Al Gore has termed “a crime, and ought to be treated as a crime” — cleared as “environmentally responsible” by the Obama administration’s EPA?
Since President Barack Obama has taken office, an estimated 300 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives have been detonated across our American mountains. Read the rest of this entry »