Climate news

Recently a couple of articles about Hillary and Obama’s positions on clean coal have been hitting the media. A couple of days ago, Reuters did one on their support of “clean coal” while staying away from the topic of global warming. “In a bid to draw voters ahead of Democratic primaries in West Virginia on Tuesday and [...]

Since the first Camp for Climate Action in 2006 the radical climate movement has been developing well; in terms of skills, numbers and experience. The Climate Camp was born out a set of needs: need for space to build campaigns and discuss ideas, the need for education on climate problems and solutions, and the need [...]

“I said, ooo…”   Yeah, you know the anthem.     Tonight, it’s being sung by an assortment of some 60-70 anti-coal/clean energy grassroots organizers from across the United States, in a charming little church in downtown Houston.  Here for the first time, effected young people, religious leaders, indigenous leaders, and community members from Georgia and Michigan, Nevada, Texas, and [...]

I’m sitting in a church guest house in Houston, preparing to attend Dynegy’s annual shareholder meeting tomorrow. We’ve gathered in Texas to confront Dynegy CEO Bruce Wiliamson, King Coal himself, because he plans to build six new coal burning power plants — more than other corporation in the country. They say everything’s bigger [...]

On the surface, broad-based solutions to global warming appear to be emerging in Congress. But with even a meager scrubbing of the surface, Senators Lieberman and Warner’s “Climate Security Act” (S. 2191) - which is scheduled to be debated on the Senate floor in June - turns out to be perhaps the greatest greenwash of [...]

In less than 6 months we will elect a new Congress and a new President. These people will be charged with representing US, their constituents, and with charting the course of our country. Now WE must take it upon ourselves to make sure WE elect people who will accurately represent us - we [...]

Presidential contender John McCain delivered a major speech today outlining his climate change policy from Portland, Oregon. Stumping from Stumptown (a Portland nickname harkening to it’s timber industry past), Senator McCain detailed his plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, calling climate change a “test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern [...]

Talk about “direct action at the point of decision.”  Mini-mobilizations and actions around the shareholder season has quite lively.  Especially around the issues of coal and climate. Three weeks ago, Citi and Bank of America’s CEOs got earfuls about their investments in the coal industry inside and outside their meetings in New York and Charlotte.  Last [...]

As the estimated death toll in Burma rises to 100,000, it’s hard not to reflect on the incredible injustice of the situation. Cyclone Nargis, considered a once-in-500-year storm, struck the Irrawaddy Delta this past Saturday, pushing a wall of water through a largely deforested mangrove swamp and inundating some of the most densely populated [...]

Rapid deployment of CCS must be a central tenet of any sound global energy policy.