Posted March 29, 2012 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, The Media and the Environment
President Obama is giving a speech in the Rose Garden today to once again call on Congress to end wasteful oil industry tax breaks and subsidies. But even for the guy with the biggest bully pulpit in the world, it’s...continued→
Posted December 28, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Green Enterprise, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
Fossil fuel lobbyists and their allies in Congress continue to dispute the need to support development of more renewable energy in America. Never mind that more 90 percent of Americans say developing renewable energy should be a national priority. Never...continued→
Posted December 2, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
It can be hard keeping tabs on what our lawmakers are doing in Congress. Cutbacks in Washington coverage by major news organizations, the celebri-fication of television news and a general disgust with politics has many Americans understandably turned off, tuned...continued→
Posted November 22, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Some politicians are trying to turn clean energy into something dirty. They say we ought to cut federal support for energy programs - unless maybe they involve drilling for oil and gas.he money to do it by eliminating tax breaks...continued→
Posted November 17, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu is scheduled to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on investigations today in yet another attempt by House Republicans to turn the Solyndra failure into a political scandal. Any allegations of...continued→
Posted November 15, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Sometimes, in the desire to own a story or the yearning to advance the narrative, it’s easy for reporters to forget about context. Unfortunately, that’s what seems to be happening in the press coverage of clean energy, much to the...continued→
Posted November 3, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
Skim the headlines or listen to the political rhetoric coming from some in Congress, and you might think the clean energy industry is dead, dying or maybe some sort of scam. Truth is, clean energy companies of all sorts —...continued→
Posted October 26, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, The Media and the Environment
There’s been a lot of talk in Washington lately about the economy and the environment. To hear some in Congress, our economic woes today somehow mythically stem from our efforts to protect our health and our environment. Getting power plants...continued→
Posted October 12, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
Unlike many of the talking heads on Fox News and other television networks, Juan Williams was a bona fide journalist before becoming a commentator célèbre. Before joining Fox, he was at NPR. Before that, he spent more than 20 years...continued→
Posted October 6, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
In a previous life, I was a technology reporter who covered a company called Apple Inc. and a guy named Steve Jobs. I was lucky enough to be there in San Francisco when Jobs introduced something called the iPod, the...continued→
Posted September 22, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
Clean energy is suddenly a dirty word among Republicans in Congress. Rep. Darrell Issa, whose claim to fame before skillfully climbing the GOP ladder in the House was instrumenting the nasty recall of a sitting Democratic governor in California, is...continued→
Posted August 16, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
One of the best and most innovative additions to American journalism in recent years has to be PolitiFact. If you’re not familiar with it, you should be. Each day, PolitiFact reporters and editors scour and scrutinize the crazy stuff politicians...continued→
Posted August 9, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Disaster often makes for good journalism. So it’s no coincidence that many of the just-announced winners of this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists annual awards focused on the worst offshore oil spill in our nation’s history, the 2010 disaster in...continued→
Posted July 29, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
It’s tough getting any news out of Washington these days that doesn’t involve the debt ceiling. Understandably, the political firestorm that has led our country to the brink of financial default has dominated headlines. With Washington and the world focused...continued→
Posted July 22, 2011 by Bob Keefe in Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Not content trying to repeal 2007 energy efficiency standards for light bulbs that would save our country $12.5 billion every year, the Republican-led House went so far as to take up legislation Friday that would have forced the government to...continued→
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