Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos]

Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos]: "Drilling is just the tip of the iceberg. Compressor stations have been associated with significant headaches, bloody noses, skin lesions, blisters, and rashes.

The exploding faucet may have launched the movement against fracking, but it's the unsexy compressor station that is pushing it to maturity.

Last week, more than a hundred activists from Pennsylvania and New York, including actor Mark Ruffalo, brought thousands of gallons of drinking water to 11 families in Dimock, Pa., who had been left dry after Cabot Oil and Gas stopped their water deliveries...."

Shale Gas Drilling: Pros & Cons

The Secret To Creating Jobs That Wall Street Doesn't Want You To Know

Now for the Bad News

Winners and Losers

America's Nuclear Nightmare

The Beast File: Stuxnext

Wow. That is some insane programming.

The Tea Party's Next Target: Taking Out the EPA and Sacking Laws that Protect Our Water and Air

The Tea Party's Next Target: Taking Out the EPA and Sacking Laws that Protect Our Water and Air: "In the midst of a packed schedule snapping at President Obama's heels, Republicans have found time to try and rip the heart out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

You'd think Congress would be too busy wrecking the economy to attack the environment. Yet, in the midst of a packed schedule snapping at President Obama's heels and lunging for each other's throats, Republicans have found time to try and rip the heart out of the Environmental Protection Agency, killing 40 years of protections for water, air, endangered species, wildlife habitat and national parks..."

Nuclear Safety Now

Climate Regulations a Job Killer? Quit Crying Wolf

Climate Regulations a Job Killer? Quit Crying Wolf

Deregulation kills people which is why I get so mad when people say we need to deregulate pretty much everything.

Dancing on the Ceiling

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The Daily Show - Dancing on the Ceiling - Tax Cut Religion
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A Republican House victory for inefficient lightbulbs

A Republican House victory for inefficient lightbulbs - Daily Kos

"How much money could American families save? The DOE has estimated it's as much as $6 billion a year. That's just one reason why the White House and Senate Democrats want to keep these standards. Since the amendment was passed as a policy rider on a larger spending bill, however, it has a decent chance of surviving.

So the Republican House of 2011 is officially more conservative and more insane than the Bush administration of 2007, when President Bush signed the bill establishing those standards. Congrats, Republicans! You succeeded in plummeting well below our low expectations of you."

So much for being 'fiscally conservative' you idiots!

Markey: GOP Budget Takes Energy Out of Department of Energy

Markey: GOP Budget Takes Energy Out of Department of Energy

Seriously? What a bunch of hypocrites. I'm so sick of these people.

Exxon Oil Spill

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Can we send them to jail now? Along with Transocean, BP and the banksters?

Nuclear Power Safety

Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites

Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites - MSNBC

Another reason why we need to get rid of nuclear energy.

Vermont Yankee