Posted November 1, 2012 by Bob Keefe in Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
Journalism is usually at its best in the wake of disaster. The tragic scenes we are seeing on the airwaves and in the newspapers in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy are a bitter testament to that. Our hearts go out...continued→
Posted September 14, 2012 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
To get an idea of how much the fossil fuel industry is spending to convince you that more drilling, fracking and mining is the answer for our economy, consider this: The industry has spent more on television advertising this year...continued→
Posted August 3, 2012 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
Editorials are supposed to convey the opinions of a publication’s editorial board. But they aren't supposed to distort the facts and mislead the public. Anybody who has read the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal knows the newspaper's opinions...continued→
Posted July 11, 2012 by Bob Keefe in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
The temperature’s cooling, the power is back on in Washington, D.C., the fires are almost out in Colorado and they’ve almost cleaned up from the flooding in Florida. So naturally, those who continue to deny (at the peril of the...continued→
Posted July 4, 2012 by Bob Keefe in Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
The media just might be starting to see the obvious link between climate change and extreme weather. Of course it’s hard to miss during a week or so when we have deluges in Florida, wildfires in Colorado and deadly freak...continued→
Posted July 2, 2012 by Bob Keefe in Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, Solving Global Warming, The Media and the Environment
More than 400,000 people are still without power in the Washington, D.C. area after one of the region’s most bizarre and damaging storms in history. I am one of them. The lights and air conditioning went out at my place...continued→
Posted June 18, 2012 by Bob Keefe
Rio+20 is atwitter about fossil fuel subsidies.The high costs of tax breaks and incentives for oil, gas, coal and other fossil fuel companies is driving the discussion at numerous panels at the Earth Summit. It’s not just environmentalists who think...continued→
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→
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