Clean Air Standoff at Navajo Generating Station
While the Interior Department is approving some clean energy projects in the West, amazingly they seem to be sticking their neck out to keep one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the country as...
View ArticleEPA Caves into Interior Department
I previously blogged about the Interior Department’s efforts to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency to delay cleaning up the Navajo Generating Station. Sadly, EPA quickly caved in, promising...
View ArticleThe Good
Okay, now here’s the good. In the last couple of weeks, WildEarth Guardians has taken some tremendous strides to confront some of the most significant contributors to global warming, including:...
View ArticlePipe Dreams
Despite protests, calls from scientists, criticism from his own agencies, and plain common sense, President Obama gave the green light to the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, all but assuring a...
View ArticleIt’s the Ugly that Matters
In the fight against global warming, it helps to be sexy. Case in point is the proposed Alton coal mine, a new pit slated to be punched in the ground near—of all places—Bryce Canyon National Park. You...
View ArticleShutting ‘em Down
Yes, it’s no surprise that WildEarth Guardians would like to see a coal-fired power plant that can’t comply with the Clean Air Act shut down rather than see it continue to pollute. After all, we yank...
View ArticleGreenhouse Gas Cover Up at Interior
In spite of President Obama’s 2009 Executive Order calling on federal agencies to “inventory, report, and adopt targets for reducing their direct and indirect GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions,” our...
View ArticleFair Market Secret (and Updated Powder River Basin Map)
On the heels of news that more than one billion tons of coal have been auctioned off from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming just in the last year, the Bureau of Land Management yesterday stunningly...
View ArticleDecorative Coal Landscaping? Anyone?
Coal is mined for one reason: to be burned. It’s not used for decorative landscaping. It’s not used for building material. It’s certainly not used for jewelry. Whether it’s for power (the primary...
View ArticleRecreating our way out of Global Warming?
Although bread and butter conservation groups like the National Wildlife Federation are lauding her outdoor credentials, the idea of Sally Jewell, the current CEO of REI, as the next Secretary of the...
View ArticleYour Land is Fracked: The Untold Story of Drilling on Our Public Lands
Note: Tim Ream is WildEarth Guardians’ new Climate and Energy Campaign Director. He’ll be joining me in blogging here from time to time. Enjoy his first post! — Jeremy Nichols I’ve spent a whole lot...
View ArticleInterior Department: Carbon Costs “Misleading”
In July, the Obama Administration was called out over its utter hypocrisy in curtailing carbon pollution in the U.S. On the one hand, the Administration says that delaying carbon clean up will cost us...
View ArticleInterior Department Killing Climate Progress
The climate hypocrisy of the U.S. Department of the Interior reached new and absolutely bizarre lows this past week. On Monday, Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Interior Department, helped unveil the...
View ArticleMore Fracking in Store for Colorado’s Front Range
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced last week its intent to auction off 86 parcels comprising more than 36,000 acres of our public lands to the oil and gas industry for drilling and fracking....
View ArticleInterior Truly Denies Climate Change
Although the U.S. Interior Department’s ongoing approval of fossil fuel development on our public lands speaks volumes to the agency’s refusal to combating climate change, it sure helps to have words...
View ArticleFeds Seriously Moving to Adopt Arch Coal Loophole
One would think that in the face of mounting controversy over the Obama Administration’s massive climate blind spot, the federal government would start to show some restraint when it comes to approving...
View ArticleThe Only Fair Return is Keeping Coal in the Ground
After years of rebuffing calls for change (and even highly visible endorsements of more coal production from former Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar), the U.S. Department of the Interior and Interior...
View ArticleWhy Keep our Coal in the Ground?
We know that 40% of our nation’s coal comes from publicly owned deposits primarily in the Rocky Mountain West and that when burned, this coal produces more than 11% of all U.S. greenhouse gas...
View ArticleA Year of Major Climate Progress: WildEarth Guardians’ Top Ten of 2015
2015 was a seriously amazing year for the climate movement (the Pope!). As well for WildEarth Guardians’ Climate and Energy Program, it was a year of tremendous success. We secured lawsuit wins,...
View ArticleClimate Protection Just a Game to the U.S. Interior Department
Despite of major climate progress here in the U.S., including a historic moratorium on leasing publicly owned coal, the Obama Administration is still frighteningly out of step when it comes to...
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