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Price of New Nuke Plants Skyrockets

Price of New Nuke Plants Skyrockets

Harvey Wasserman The projected price for Georgia’s Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months—and that’s just for starters. Will you pay for it? The future of new atomic power in the U.S. hangs in the balance. A national grassroots campaign is now working to stop tax/ratepayer handouts and […]

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    PART 2:  BP Covered Up Blow-out Prior to Deepwater Horizon

    PART 2: BP Covered Up Blow-out Prior to Deepwater Horizon

    Greg Palast Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up—which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission.  Yesterday, Ecowatch.org revealed that, in September 2008, nearly two years before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP […]

    BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill

    BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill

    Greg Palast Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. This week, EcoWatch.org located an eyewitness with devastating new information about the Caspian Sea oil-rig blow-out which BP had concealed […]

    World’s Cheapest Food Is in the U.S.—But at What Cost?

    World’s Cheapest Food Is in the U.S.—But at What Cost?

    Food Freedom By Dr. Mercola In 2010, Americans spent just over 9 percent of their disposable income on food (5.5 percent at home and 3.9 percent eating out).1 This is a dramatically lower percentage spent just decades ago in the early 1960s, when more than 17 percent was spent on food, and even more of […]

    Myths and Facts about Oil and Gasoline

    Myths and Facts about Oil and Gasoline

    Media Matters for America Both mainstream and conservative media outlets have responded to the recent spike in gasoline prices by circulating talking points rooted in politics rather than facts. As a whole, these claims reflect the misconception, perpetuated by the news media, that changes in U.S. energy policy are a major driver of oil and […]

    Deadly Bacteria Found in Gulf Coast Tar Balls

    Deadly Bacteria Found in Gulf Coast Tar Balls

    DeSmogBlog By Farron Cousins Since the very first tar balls began rolling onshore along the Gulf of Mexico following 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oilrig explosion and subsequent underwater oil geyser, the oil industry told us to relax because those tar balls were completely harmless. But as we approach the two year anniversary of the disaster, new […]

    Bioneers Cleveland to Host Full-Day Sustainability and Vision Presentation at CSU

    Bioneers Cleveland to Host Full-Day Sustainability and Vision Presentation at CSU

    Bioneers Cleveland Green is a big color at Cleveland State University. Students and the community will be highlighting “green” as in “Sustainability “on April 11 with Green Advantage: Sustainability and Vision, a full day of presentations that showcase a number of initiatives at CSU, Northeast Ohio and nationally. The event is free of charge for […]

    BREAKING: Judge Ruling Could Expedite Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

    BREAKING: Judge Ruling Could Expedite Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

    Jeff Biggers In an alarming rebuke to fledgling U.S. EPA efforts to regulate devastating mountaintop removal mining operations today, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the Obama administration overstepped its authority in revoking a permit last year for the largest proposed strip-mining operation in central Appalachia. Despite a growing health and human rights […]

    Paducah Closure Throws Nuclear Policy into Chaos

    Paducah Closure Throws Nuclear Policy into Chaos

      Geoffrey Sea   Environmentalists should be jubilant as the dinosaurian uranium enrichment plant at Paducah, Kentucky, nears expiration as soon as May. Based on antiquated gaseous diffusion technology, the facility is the largest single-meter power consumer on the planet, eating as much electricity as the city of St. Louis. It is likely the largest […]