Category: Environmental

Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power

Focus on climate change has raised profile of reactors, now viewed as reliable, carbon-free source of energy Some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in the antinuclear…

How to Save the Planet

Biggest Energy Breakthrough Since Fire So, why don’t we hear more about it; because existing energy companies and the Fossil Fuel Cartel doesn’t want you to! And, neither does the Sierra Club—they close their ears when they hear anything nuclear (deniers…

We Should be Very, Very Scared

Monday, 23 May 2016 00:00 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Has Passed the Point of No Return (Photo: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center; Edited: LW / TO) A recent trip up Washington State’s Mount Rainier…

Mold In Prisons

Mold-Infested Prisons Sicken Guards and Prisoners Spencer Woodman May 28 2016, 5:46 a.m. During much of her three years awaiting trial in New York’s Rikers Island jail, Candie Hailey was locked in a solitary confinement cell ventilated by a mold-covered air…

Whales can’t eat plastic

A necropsy on dead sperm whales that washed up on the shore of Germany earlier this year revealed the ill-fated Giants had an array of plastics in their stomachs, according to researchers. Four of the 13 whales that washed up on…