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Looking for Energy in All the Wrong Places
With cheap oil becoming a luxury of the past, America and the world are working to build a clean energy future that will heal the economy and help fight global warming. But not everyone is willing to let go of the past: They're trying to develop even dirtier sources of transportation fuel -- derived from oil shale, tar sands and liquid coal -- at an even greater cost to our health and the environment.
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- Frances Beinecke
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- Posted October 22, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Just as support for clean energy and climate solutions is growing among Americans from all walks of life--from Fortune 500 executives to Iraqi war veterans to union members--we learn new secrets about the old forces eager to keep us hooked...continued→
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- Rob Perks
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- Posted October 22, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
No one should be surprised that Big Oil talks the talk on the need to address the climate crisis while not bothering to actually walk the walk. At an industry conference this week in London, members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries showed...continued→
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- Rob Perks
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- Posted September 29, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
"Turn on more lights, burn more coal." -- Don Blankenship Don Blankenship is the CEO of Massey Energy, the largest coal producer in Appalachia and the most notorious perpetrator of mountaintop removal mining. Mr. Blankenship, known as "the scariest polluter in America", makes millions of dollars...continued→
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- Elizabeth Shope
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- Posted September 16, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
President Obama sips on a tar sands milkshake through a large straw with the words "Clipper Pipeline" neatly painted onto it. The milkshake asks Obama, "How does it taste?" He doesn't think it's very yummy. On the other side of...continued→
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- actionfactory, dirtyfuels, harper, obama, oilsands, tarsands
- Liz Barratt-Brown
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- Posted September 16, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
You remember that old expression, the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Mirriam-Webster defines its meaning as: "one that is dominating or uncontrollable because of great size or power, e.g. like it or not, the 800-pound gorilla usually sets the...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, oilsands, presidentobama, primeministerharper, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted September 16, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
On my regular walk to work along Pennsylvania Avenue, I passed a big hairy "Carbon" Big Foot on the sidewalk who was cheerfully grunting offers of tar sands oil to passersby. This was not an everyday sight in my...continued→
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- canada, dirtyfuels, oilsands, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted September 15, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Today the Obama Administration proposed the first national limits on global warming pollution from cars and trucks along with strengthened fuel economy standards. This will cut global warming pollution from vehicles by 30 percent, save 1.3 million barrels a...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, tarsands
- Liz Barratt-Brown
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- Posted September 15, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
Prime Minister Harper is coming to Washington at a time of heightened concern about how tar sands oil is undermining U.S., Canadian and international efforts to curb global warming pollution. He is also coming at a time when all eyes...continued→
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- copenhagen, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, lowcarbonfuelstandard, oilsands, presidentobama, primeministerharper, tarsands
- Frances Beinecke
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- Posted September 15, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
This Wednesday, President Obama will meet with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House to talk about climate change and energy issues. The word "expansion" may not appear on the official, diplomatic schedule, but I am certain it...continued→
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- alberta, borealforest, cleancars, dirtyfuels, firstnation, globalwarming, hybrids, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted September 10, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
With Canadian federal elections a likelihood for this fall, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper would benefit politically from a feel good photo-op or joint announcement with the most popular politician in Canada: Barack Obama. Prime Minister Harper will be in...continued→
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- canada, climatechange, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, tarsands
- Frances Beinecke
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- Posted August 25, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Having recently returned from the extensive tar sands oil fields of Alberta, I was alarmed to learn that our State Department just approved a new pipeline for funneling tar sands fuel straight into the U.S. Midwest. This decision locks us...continued→
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- alberta, borealforest, cleanenergy, dirtyfuels, energyandclimate2009, fuelefficiency, globalwarming, pipeline, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted August 21, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, the State Department issued a permit for a new transboundary pipeline that will bring heavy tar sands oil to the U.S. Midwest for upgrading and refining. The United States is preparing for the Copenhagen meeting having made a commitment...continued→
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- albertaclipper, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, pipeline, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted August 7, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
The leaders of Canada's provinces are meeting today to discuss climate change, among other things. They were greeted by Greenpeace protesters with signs that Canada is dying for climate leadership. This is a theme that is likely to follow the...continued→
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- climatechange, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, northamerica, oilsands, tarsands
- Frances Beinecke
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- Posted July 31, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
After I toured some of Alberta's tar sands oil operations last week, I traveled north to Fort Chipewyan, a small village in the Athabasca River Delta. The community is only 60 miles from tar sands central in Fort McMurray, but...continued→
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- alberta, biogems, borealforest, canada, cancer, dirtyfuels, firstnation, peace-athabascadelta, tarsands
- Frances Beinecke
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- Posted July 30, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
Most Americans recognize that our love affair with the automobile--and the oil addiction that comes with it--has implications for our foreign policy and military commitments in the Middle East. What is less well understood are the environmental and human consequences...continued→
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- alberta, borealforest, cleanenergy, dirtyfuels, firstnation, fortmcmurray, fuelefficiency, oiladdiction, oildrilling, pembina, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted July 23, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Once again, the Alberta government is using its $25 million public relations pot to mislead the public. Today, Alberta is touting the results of two new studies about tar sands greenhouse gas emissions as showing that tar sands production is...continued→
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- canada, dirtyfuels, oilsands, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted June 29, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
On Friday, the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act passed in the House signifying a major step forward for the United States in tackling climate change and building a clean energy economy. The ACES bill provides the funding to...continued→
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- ACES, dirtyfuels, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming, oilsands, section526, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted June 4, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
I have been working on U.S. - Canada environmental issues for almost ten years - and many of my colleagues have done so for much longer. We have close and daily coordination among environmental groups on both sides of our...continued→
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- arctic, boreal, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted May 29, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
Last week the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released a new report The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs. Climate Change. The report attempts to address a debate about whether the United States needs further expansion of tar sands oil...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, tarsands
- Rob Perks
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- Posted May 19, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
"The U.S. should not pursue energy options inconsistent with the national response to climate change." That is the sober -- and welcome -- conclusion of a new report by the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), entitled Powering America's Defense:...continued→
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- coaltoliquids, dirtyfuels, energysecurity, liquidcoal, nationalsecurity, oilshale, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted May 18, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) consulting firm released a new report today about growth in the Canadian tar sands. The report acknowledges many of the environmental problems with tar sands, but then still somehow concludes that we need this source...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, globalwarming, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted May 15, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Despite attempts by oil companies and Canada to say otherwise, the movement in the United States to reduce carbon pollution leaves no room for expansion of high carbon dirty fuels like tar sands oil from Canada. Just a few...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming, tarsands, waxmanmarkey
- Liz Barratt-Brown
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- Posted May 15, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
The huge Congressional climate bill has been formally introduced, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454). Over a month of discussion and heavy dealmaking has finally come to an end, recalling the famous Otto Von Bismarck quote "Laws are...continued→
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- canada, dirtyfuels, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming, oilsands, tarsands, waxmanmarkey
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted May 14, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
As the U.S. is drafting new rules to reduce carbon pollution, the Canadian government is once again letting its opinion be known. Is Canada pledging to work alongside the U.S. to curb carbon pollution? No - our neighbor to the...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming, tarsands, waxmanmarkey
- Roland Hwang
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- Posted April 22, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
This Thursday (April 23), the California Air Resources Board has a dramatic opportunity to help solve global warming and get biofuels right by adopting the nation's first Low Carbon Fuel Standard. To do so, California must stand up against two...continued→
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- biofuels, CARB, climatechange, dirtyfuels, ethanol, globalwarmingpollutionstandards, indirectlandusechange, low-carbonfuelstandard, oilshale, tarsands
- Pete Altman
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- Posted April 16, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy
, Solving Global Warming
The US Chamber of Commerce has been drinking its own Kool-Aid again, and trying this time to get members of Congress to think it's green tea. The Chamber is attempting to convince policymakers that burdensome regulations are blocking clean energy...continued→
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- climatechange, dirtycoal, dirtyfuels, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming, smears, uschamberofcommerce
- Rob Perks
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- Posted March 25, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
With the Coal-to-Liquids conference kicking off today in Washington, D.C., I think it's worth adding another point to my previous argument against the notion of converting coal into liquified transportation fuel to offset petroleum. According to the latest U.S. Department of Energy calculations,...continued→
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- coal-to-liquids, ctl, dirtyfuels, liquidcoal, liquifiedcoal
- Rob Perks
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- Posted March 24, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Spring in Washington is a lovely time, with cherry blossoms about to bloom and tourists trekking to the Mall to gaze at monuments. But our fair city is about to see a different influx this week, as attendees arrive for the so-called...continued→
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- coaltoliquids, dirtycoal, dirtyfuels, liquidcoal, liquifiedcoal
- Amy Mall
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- Posted March 23, 2009 in Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
Our colleagues at Western Resource Advocates just released a report called "Water on the Rocks" that catalogues all the water rights in Colorado that have been acquired by oil shale interests, or could be used by them, to develop oil shale on...continued→
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- biogems, dirtyfuels, oilshale, worldwaterday
- Rob Perks
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- Posted March 20, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
This headline in the Calgary Herald today made my day: "Rhetoric driving policy, says chamber". A more apt headline might be: "Rhetoric driving chamber crazy." According to the story, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce thinks the term "dirty fuel" unfairly describes Canadian tar...continued→
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- boreal, canada, dirtyfuels, tarsands
- Scott Dodd
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- Posted March 20, 2009 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last spring, I found myself entranced by a pair of red-tail hawks building a nest in Riverside Park, just a few blocks from my apartment in New York City. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of their parents and the best wishes...continued→
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- biogems, birds, borealforest, canada, climatechange, conservation, dirtyfuels, newyorkcity, tarsands
- Pete Altman
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- Posted March 18, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
Ever wonder why it's been so hard to pass climate change and clean energy legislation? By now, most Americans are aware that coal, oil and other members of the carbon club spend generously on top-dollar public relations and lobbying campaigns...continued→
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- cleanenergy, coalindustry, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, legislation, oilindustry, smears, utilities
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted March 5, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
We greeted Canadian Environment Minister Prentice in DC at the start of this week. Minister Prentice has been a strong proponent of expansion of Canadian tar sands oil development, despite the high global warming pollution, and the extensive damage to...continued→
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- canada, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, nuclear, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted March 3, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Canadian Environment Minister Prentice visiting Washington, D.C. for meetings on energy and climate this week, makes me wonder again why Canada is putting so much effort and money into public relations around tar sands oil instead of addressing the very...continued→
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- canada, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted March 1, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
With our first real snow storm of the winter predicted for Monday morning, the greeting for tar sands oil this week in Washington is likely to be as chilly as the weather. The Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice arrives in...continued→
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- Canada, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, tarsands
- Henry Henderson
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- Posted February 27, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
Last month, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm used her State of the State address to stake out an exciting new clean energy future for the wolverine state. By focusing on energy efficiency and renewable energy, she was just weeks ahead of President...continued→
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- coal, dirtyfuels, energyefficiency, granholm, michigan
- Liz Barratt-Brown
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- Posted February 24, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
In a forceful speech tonight, President Barack Obama asked America to join him in bringing about a revolution in how we produce and use energy. Already in his young presidency, he has signaled his desire to regulate greenhouse gases from...continued→
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- canada, climatepolicy, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, obamaspeech, oilsands, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted February 24, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Beyond the applause and happy smiles in tonight's Presidential address, what made me realize that we are in a new era was how the President wove his energy agenda throughout the speech. What a difference from the Presidential addresses of...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, globalwarming, obamaspeech, oilsands, tarsands
- Josh Mogerman
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- Posted February 19, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
It was a sweet day for President Obama in Canada. As he savored a "beaver tail" in Ottawa, security seemed the farthest issue from his mind. No, this is not an endangered species post...apparently there is a rockin' bakery...continued→
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- alberta, beavertail, canada, dirtyfuels, obama, obamatocanada, tarsands
- Liz Barratt-Brown
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- Posted February 19, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
The tar sands issue will never be the same after the President's visit to Canada this week. It has been catapulted to the top tier issues between the U.S. and Canada. Now the spotlight will be on what can be...continued→
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- canada, dirtyfuels, energypolicy, globalwarming, oil, oilsands, presidentobama, sands, tar
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted February 19, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Speculation about how President Obama would handle the murky issue of tar sands oil during his first visit to Canada has been daily in the Canadian media over the past few weeks. Focusing on the imperative of tackling global warming, President...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, presidentobama, tarsands
- Melanie Nakagawa
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- Posted February 19, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
We've all been hearing the litany of problems with tar sands from the environmental impacts to the public health consequences. However, how much more needs to happen for our decision makers to act now? Scientists who have specialized in...continued→
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- climatechange, dirtyfuels, oilsands, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted February 18, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
When President Obama travels to Canada tomorrow, he will be met by cheering crowds eager to greet him along with a welcoming banner from Greenpeace that reads "climate leaders don't buy tar sands oil." Canadian tar sands oil development strip-mines...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, tarsands
- Michael Oko
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- Posted February 18, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
At first glance, you wouldn't think that a trip to our friendly northern neighbors would be cause for concern for environmental groups. You'd expect Canadians, with their love of outdoors and the vast wilderness, to be strong advocates for the...continued→
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- canada, dirtyfuels, obama, tarsands
- Jake Schmidt
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- Posted February 18, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Well the anticipated trip of President Obama to Canada is just about to begin. The Canadian press has been reporting for a while that Prime Minister Harper will raise tar sands when President Obama makes his first international trip. And,...continued→
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- canada, climatechage, copenhagen, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, tarsands
- Frances Beinecke
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- Posted February 18, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Tomorrow President Obama is traveling to Canada. Most American presidents head to Ottawa on their first state visits, using the trip to our northern neighbor as an easy transition to the world stage. But this time, in addition to the...continued→
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- alberta, borealforest, canada, cleanenergy, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, globalwarmingpollution, tarsands
- George Peridas
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- Posted February 18, 2009 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
As is customary, President Obama will make his first state visit to Canada this week. Prime Minister Harper will no doubt be waiting eagerly. There is a lot to talk about. Energy security will be high on both leaders' list. To quote...continued→
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- capture, carbon, ccs, climatechange, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, sequestration, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted February 17, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Just two days before visiting Canada, in an interview on Canadian TV tonight, President Obama said that tar sands "creates a big carbon footprint." Alberta's controversial tar sands oil industry is known for its damage to the Boreal forest and...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, tarsands
- Liz Barratt-Brown
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- Posted February 17, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
As the President heads to Canada this week, the Canadian government is expected to table a proposal to "protect" their carbon-heavy tar sands operations in Northern Alberta from future global warming regulation. The Canadians are confident, apparently, that the U.S....continued→
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- canada, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, presidentobama, tarsands
- Josh Mogerman
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- Posted February 13, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
Things looked pretty rosy in Alberta last summer when oil was trading for $140/barrel. Investments flooded in from folks all over the world eager to stake their claim on the Canadian province's cash cow: tar sands. Sure, there were...continued→
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- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted February 13, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
On the eve of President Obama's trip to Canada, the Canadian government is claiming that America and Canada share the same problems with dirty fuels such as coal and tar sands. Tar sands and coal are both very dirty fuels....continued→
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- coal, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, tarsands
- Liz Barratt-Brown
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- Posted February 12, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The President will make his first foreign visit to Canada next week. This is a tradition and historically these meetings have been largely ceremonial. Not so this time. Canada is abuzz with speculation about what directions might be set -...continued→
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- climatepolicy, dirtyfuels, oilsands, presidentobama, primeministerharper, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted February 10, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
From a birds eye view, the Syncrude tar sands mining waste ponds stretch out glistening attractively in the sun. On a long migration north to nest, I can see how 500 ducks would decide to land on one of...continued→
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- boreal, dirtyfuels, ducks, migratorybirds, oilsands, tarsands
- Melanie Nakagawa
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- Posted February 10, 2009 in Health and the Environment
The release of last week's Alberta Health cancer study in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada answered few questions but prompted many more. Responding to requests by the community of Fort Chipewyan, the Alberta Government conducted a health study to investigate the...continued→
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- cancerstudy, dirtyfuels, fortchipewyan, oilsands, tarsands
- Amy Mall
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- Posted February 9, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and the World Resources Institute recently worked together to publish "A Roadmap for a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Economy." The Roadmap is intended to produce win-win-win recommendations that benefit energy security, our economy, and the climate. The...continued→
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- climatechange, dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilshale
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted February 9, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The Alberta and Canadian governments are under increasing public pressure for stricter regulations to protect environment and public health in the tar sands. A new Council of Canadians poll shows that there is no excuse for energy companies when...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, nafta, oilsands, tarsands
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted February 3, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There is an air of optimism in Washington, D.C. these days with our new President in place. For me some of it comes from feeling that there is a new will in the US to find clean energy solutions. ...continued→
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- biogems, birds, dirtyfuels, oilsands, tarsands
- Amy Mall
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- Posted January 14, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
There is less than a week before President-elect Obama's inauguration. Tomorrow, there will be a Senate hearing on the nominee for the new Secretary of the Interior--Senator Ken Salazar. Nevertheless, despite the many changes in Washington, the Bush administration is staying...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, oilshale
- Susan Casey-Lefkowitz
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- Posted January 13, 2009 in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
When I mentioned around the office that Canada had proposed to our new President-to-be that the ever growing greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands oil development be "protected" from global warming regulations -- the response was disbelief. "Preposterous!"...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, globalwarming, oilsands, tarsands
- Josh Mogerman
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- Posted December 23, 2008 in Solving Global Warming
The Rocky Mountain News published a strongly pro-tar sands Op Ed from a Colorado petroleum geologist over the weekend, entitled "Oil sands spell energy security." I don't claim to have aced any spelling bees -- but I do know my...continued→
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- alberta, dirtyfuels, energysecurity, rockymountainnews, tarsands
- Rob Perks
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- Posted December 22, 2008 in Moving Beyond Oil
Everyone realizes that America is dangerously addicted to oil. What people need to know is that if crude oil is cocaine, tar sands oil from Canada is crack. It doesn't make any sense to replace one with the other --...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, oil, oiladdiction, tarsands
- Rob Perks
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- Posted December 11, 2008 in Solving Global Warming
How's this for an eye-catching headline? Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy That comes from a story published today in ScienceDaily, which opens with this unequivocal sentence: "The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global...continued→
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- Liz Barratt-Brown
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- Posted November 19, 2008 in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
In a taped statement yesterday, President-elect Obama addressed an international meeting on climate change hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger in and co-hosted by an all-star, bi-partisan group of governors active on global warming issues (see Canada's reaction here). My colleague, Peter Miller, who was...continued→
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- Rob Perks
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- Posted October 24, 2008 in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
The coal industry has a dream -- that one day our cars and trucks will run on liquefied coal. They tout this as a way to free America from its addiction to oil -- 60% of which we export from foreign...continued→
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- dirtyfuels, liquidcoal, liquifiedcoal, oiladdiction
- Erin Allweiss
- Blog | About
- Posted October 16, 2008 in Moving Beyond Oil
On the heels of Congress lifting the moratorium on leasing lands to develop oil shale, Rand released a study that is as interesting for what's in it as for what's been left out. RAND, a renowned non-profit that provides analyses...continued→
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- congress, dirtyfuels, energy, globalwarming, moratorium, oil, oilshale, water
- Josh Mogerman
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- Posted October 16, 2008 in Solving Global Warming
Over and over we hear from dirty fuel advocates that the U.S. needs to use slop like tar sands and high sulfur coal so that it does not get shipped to places like China where the environmental standards are considered...continued→
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- baard, china, coal, coaltoliquid, CTL, dirtyfuels, ohio
- Daniel Hinerfeld
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- Posted October 6, 2008 in The Media and the Environment
Hurricane Ike spilled at least half a million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico and the wetlands of Louisiana and Texas, according to a review of federal data by the Associated Press, released today. As proponents of...continued→
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- Posted October 6, 2008 in The Media and the Environment
Joel Reynolds speaks about NRDC’s upcoming Supreme Court case, dubbed ‘Navy v. Whales’ on Living on Earth the nationally syndicated NPR show based out of Boston…In the LA Times Bobby McEnaney warns that tax breaks for dirty fuel refineries included...continued→
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In an NPR Morning Edition news piece Wesley Warren, NRDC's director of Programs, talks about oil industry’s exploitation of the Bailout Bill as an opportunity to get funds for dirty fuels written into legislation… In the Gary Post Tribune, Ann...continued→
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- Posted October 1, 2008 in The Media and the Environment
In the Associated Press, Craig Noble discusses the benefits of California’s newest bill providing incentives encouraging communities to grow smartly and in ways that reduce their environmental impact… In New York Times’ Green Inc blog, the writer notes that a...continued→
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