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 Rescuing a Planet under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble

Bush and the Toll from Coal

Bill Moyers: Caring For Creation

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. : We Must Take America Back

Katrina's Real Name

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind”

Bush's Energy Disaster

Exxon writes America's energy policy, BushCo chops up emissions reports. Is there any hope at all?

Dirty Money --As coal plants win the right to burn dirtier and dirtier, the administration is subsidizing coal as the “clean fuel” of the future

The Myth of "Cheap" Coal

Judge who exonerated Cheney is on the payroll of Exxon

EPA Proposal to Weaken Water Quality Spurs Outrage

Bush plan streamlines strip mine permits

Bush By Numbers: Four Years of Double Standards

Cheney is a Quiet Force Behind Bush Presidency

Energy: The Economics of Corporate Welfare

Bush-Cheney: A Mean Kind of Green

Friends in the White House Come to Coal's Aid

Robert F. Kennedy: King Coal pillages beautiful land

Leveling a Mountain of Research on Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining

COAL: U.S. Promotes While Canada and Europe Move Beyond

Sludge Funds: How the Bush camp is using the EPA to keep its polluting friends happy and its campaign coffers filled

New Report Finds Unprecedented Special Interest Access Under Bush

When Advocates Become Regulators

Study Finds Top Air Polluters Closely Tied to Bush Administration

Covering Up an Environmental Disaster Larger Than Exxon Valdez

Courting Big Business: Is the Bush White House using the courts as another way to pay back special interests?

Economist Calls Coal Environmental Enemy No. 1

The Social Cost of Coal: A Tale of Market Failure and Market Solution

Bought and Paid For: Who’s behind the president’s fundraising machine—and what they expect in return

Bush Campaign Ads Brought to You by Special Interests; Industries That Give to Bush Get Their Money's Worth 

Robert F. Kennedy in The Nation: 
The Junk Science of George W. Bush

Robert Kennedy, Jr. in Rolling Stone:
Bush--Crimes Against Nature

Who Bankrolls Bush and his Democratic Rivals?

Renewable Energy and the Future

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Solar Power's New Hot Spot

Achieving a New Energy Future: How States Can Lead America to a Clean, Sustainable Economy

World Solar Industry Growth Jumped 70 Pct In 2004

Europe Leading World Into Age of Wind Energy

Apollo Plan

 

Global Warming, Coal, Oil, Us

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Global Warming and West Virginia (pdf)

West's failure over climate change 'will kill 182m Africans'

Melting Planet

Global Warming 'Past the Point of No Return'

Bush takes heat on global warming

Christians draw swords on climate

The Endless Hurricane Season

How the Wall Street Journal and Rep. Barton celebrated a global-warming skeptic

Planet a decade from global warming point of no return

A short eternity?

Warming hits 'tipping point'

Making Sense of America's Oil Needs: A Sustainable, State-Based Response to Dwindling Oil Supplies

Nuclear energy can't solve global warming; Other remedies 7 times more beneficial

Global Warming and Economic Development (pdf)

Exxon writes America's energy policy, BushCo chops up emissions reports. Is there any hope at all?

THE CLIMATE OF MAN—I  -- THE CLIMATE OF MAN—II -- THE CLIMATE OF MAN—III

Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat

Global Warming Could Decimate Crops

No Stopping Global Warming, Studies Predict

COAL TAKES HEAVY HUMAN TOLL: Some 25,100 U.S. Deaths from Coal Use Largely Preventable

The Oil We Eat

Global Warming Accelerating Out of Control

THE SIXTH GREAT EXTINCTION: A Status Report

Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us; Secret Report Warns of Rioting and Nuclear War; Threat to the World is Greater than Terrorism

Climate Change Alert 

Fortune Magazine-- CLIMATE COLLAPSE: The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare

Climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism

Finding that Global Warming Threatens Over One Million Species Underscores Urgent Need for Action

By 2050 Warming to Doom Million Species, Study Says

Climate change threatens the future of humanity

Government Officials and Coal

Gone back to non-directly-government-paid lobbying

Leveling a Mountain of Research on Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining
When advocates become regulators
Kucinich Leads Effort on Griles Probe 
Business leaders pay to wine and dine Bush environmental policymakers 
Energy firms paying tab for GOP trip 
For a Price, Writing Congress's 'To-Do' List
Execs Pay to Play with GOP