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Capping Corporate Liability : Who Pays the Piper?
Just the beginning: Oil hitting land along the Louisiana coastline May 20, 2010. Photo by David Mattingly / CNN.Who pays the piper?BP’s nuclear-powered liability cap By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / May 23, 2010 As BP destroys our … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Ecology, Environment, Gulf Coast, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Contamination, Nuclear Power, Oil Spill
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Susan Van Haitsma : Biking for Life
Susan’s dad, on his trusty steed. Photo from Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog.Biking for life:How cool is my dad? By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / May 21, 2010 It’s National Bike Month, and I’m thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged Biking, Energy Conservation, Environment, Fossil Fuels, People, Susan Van Haitsma
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Mississippi Politics : Nasal Denial and Oily Delusion
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Mississippi Politics:Getting stinkier by the minute By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / May 15, 2010 GULFPORT, Mississippi — Growing up in Texas I was sure politics couldn’t get any stinkier, any … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Environment, Mississippi, Oil Spill, pollution
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Harvey Wasserman : The BP Dead Zone
Before the Spill: Gulf of Mexico, 2009, from Destin, Florida. Photo ©2009 Mark Meyer.While our military rots in the wrong gulf:BP blows an apocalyptic gusher By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / May 12, 2010 See ‘Ripple in still … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, British Petroleum, Environment, Gulf Coast, Harvey Wasserman, Military, Oil Spill, pollution
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Ray Reece : Where’s the Outrage?
A dead Portuguese man-of-war floats on rust-colored oil off the Louisiana coast on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Photo by Eric Gay / AP.Where’s the outrage?Just more ‘Happy Motoring’ Given the other threats currently menacing planet Earth and its so-called civilization, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Environment, Gulf Coast, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Ray Reece, Sustainability
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VERSE / Larry Piltz : The Gulf
Art from illusion360.The Gulf “The water was fouled at once,but they drank it none the less,a mess of mud and blood”– Thucydides Oil on the waterblood on the sandscruel and unusualbig business planseleven souls dyingthen millions moreof fellow live beingsdamn … Continue reading
Energy Drain : Peak Oil and the Big Spill
Drill, baby, drill:Time to get serious about energy policy By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2010 Yesterday, President Obama went to Louisiana and met with officials there concerning the growing disaster caused by the explosion of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Peak Oil, Ted McLaughlin
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Next Nuke Nightmare? Paid for with Your Taxes
In 1979, roughly 25,000 people lived within five miles of the giant cooling towers at Three Mile Island that became symbols of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident. Photo by Martha Cooper / AP.We are now payingFor the next Three … Continue reading
Leonardo Boff : Social Justice / Ecological Justice
“The Innocent: Casualties of the Civil War in Northern Uganda.” Photo by Heather McClintock / Blue Earth Alliance.Humanity’s intertwined dilemma:Social and Ecological Justice By Leonardo Boff / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2010 Among the many problems that afflict … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Environment, Leonardo Boff, Philospophy, Social Justice, Theology
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Nuke Pushers to Vermont : ‘Drop Dead’
Graphic from Symon Sez.Nuclear industry tells Vermont(And everybody else): Drop dead! By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / March 18, 2010 The nuclear power industry is sending a clear and forceful message to the citizens of Vermont: “Drop Dead.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, Environment, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Power, Vermont
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Earth to Obama : Nuclear Just Can’t Cut It
Dreamscape VII by Midnight-digital / Flickr / The End of Capitalism. Not in your wildest dreams:Five reasons nuclear just isn’t sustainable By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2010 President Obama recently announced an $8.3 billion loan … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Knight, Economy, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Technology
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Saying Coal Can Be Clean Doesn’t Make It So
The dirty truth behind clean coal By Joshua Frank / February 28, 2010 If you’ve tuned in to the Winter Olympics this past week, you likely sat through repeated showings of a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign paid for by Big … Continue reading
