Environment
Technology Goes Green in 2015
During a recent global business summit in India, John Kerry spoke about the "one enormous cloud hanging over all of us which requires responsibility from leaders. Global climate change."While many discussions about climate change, which Kerry pointed out i...
The Keystone XL Pipeline Debate Rages On Despite Profitless Projections
The politically charged debate surrounding the expansion of Canada’s Keystone XL Pipeline into the Midwestern United States continues. Although many assert the project still has merit, a prominent argument based on the falling price of oil insists that it no...
The Nuclear Reactor That Will Change the World
Indian engineers have designed a new type of nuclear reactor that will be safer, smaller, cleaner, cheaper and last longer than its disgraced predecessors.The reactor being planned at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai will be the first operation...
What the “frack”: Flammable Water
Water: essential to life, multi-useful, and... flammable?Fire water. What an oxymoron. Residents of areas rich in natural gas have noticed that their tap water is able to catch on fire. How does one find this out, you may ask? Well, that's all part of the ...
Climate Change is a Global Problem That Needs a Collaborative Solution
As the consequences of the global failure to comprehensively address climate change become more and more apparent, it is clear that the environmental effects of unregulated fossil fuel emissions are both irreversible and unavoidable. The U.N. and the World Ban...
Big Oil in Sheeps’ Clothing
The state of California is recognized as a leader in grassroots activism and sustainability practices whose green initiatives have led the way in protecting the environment. Its clean energy policies have strong public support and are the most comprehensive o...
We Haven’t Heard the Last of the Keystone XL Pipeline
In November, the U.S. Senate narrowly failed to pass the hotly debated bill that would have finally seen the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a measure that had been approved in the House just a week before.
Keystone XL Pipeline
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Death for Life – Killing to Save – Animal Conservation
5 Miles upstream from the mouth of the Columbia River sits East Sand Island, a low-lying, highly modified stretch of land that covers 50 acres. For most of the year it’s quiet, but come spring, the island becomes a breeding ground to 60,000 shorebirds, half of...
Hyundai and Kia’s Misleading Gas Mileage
The Environmental Protection Agency, with the help of the Department of Justice, laid the smack down on two automotive giants. For overstating the gas mileage of 1.2 million vehicles, Hyundai and Kia were forced to pay the price. The settlement includes a $100...
Solar Power Prohibited
Environmentally-friendly solar panels are illegal in many of America's sunniest states. And the old-guard utility providers like it that way.In Florida and many other southern states, regulations heavily prohibit solar power. Utility companies have their r...