“Don’t Frack My Mother” is a new song and music video from Artists Against Fracking that aims to put public pressure on Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking in New York. Artists Against Fracking was formed by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon in August 2012 and includes over 200 artists such as Alec Baldwin, Anne […]
By William Boardman [email protected] The same day that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was promising a “fair and transparent” review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast, the CEO of the company building that pipeline, TransCanada’s Russ Girling, was reported as saying that his company’s “Plan A” […]
Senators Bernie Sanders and Barbara Boxer, along with representatives of many mainstream environmental groups and think tanks, announced comprehensive climate change legislation that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, February 14, 2013, on Capitol Hill. “This is a gold-standard bill,” Boxer said. “Every once in a while we have them.” According […]
In this stunning clip, filmmakers managed to capture the largest-ever iceberg calving yet seen off the Greenland ice shelf’s massive Ilulissat glacier. This footage is a small part of a powerful new documentary called “Chasing Ice,” by filmmaker James Balog, which released in the U.K. and across the U.S. on Friday.
In this sixth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and other business lobbies enthusiastically carrying out campaigns “to try and convince the population that global warming […]