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Extracting oil from tar sands (aka oil sands) is detrimental to human health in a number of ways. It drastically increases greenhouse gas emissions, continues our society’s addiction to fossil fuels, and puts soil and water quality at risk. But these aren’t the only threats posed by tar sands projects like the Keystone XL pipeline. [...]

  Written by Rebecca Leber, ClimateProgress BP’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill is still affecting the lives of many Americans, particularly the tens of thousands that have not settled lawsuits with the company. Yet the company has bounced back from the billions it lost in the wake of the spill. BP announced today that its [...]

  Written by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Common Dreams I’m going to make a confession. I never could stand those pink ribbons. I’ve never done a “Walk for the Cure” or bought daffodils for cancer victims or even picked a cancer-cure-themed postage stamp. I’m glad to hear that the Komen Foundation has bowed to pressure [...]

  Billionaire conservative activists Charles and David Koch are pulling out all the stops to try and deny a link between Koch Industries and the politically controversial Keystone XL Pipeline and Canadian tar sands. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) invited the Kochs to testify before Congress about their leverage in the project and what they stand [...]

  This is a guest post from MCAF partner, the Appalachian Mountain Club: If you find yourself short of breath on your next hike, it may be more than just exertion. AMC researchers and others have studied how hikers’ health is affected by ozone, a gas that is beneficial in the earth’s upper atmosphere where it [...]

This is an open letter to the 2012 Republican Candidate Hopefuls from Laura Burns: Dear Sirs, Every morning as I drink my coffee, I read news updates about your primary campaigns. I’m a Republican mom.  And I’m so sad. All of you are religious and conservative. You’ve made your positions clear on issues like abortion, national [...]

  New York sits on the northern edge of major shale deposits, known as the Marcellus Shale. Most of the Marcellus Shale is in New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. The way to drill for the shale is with hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, which pollutes drinking water supplies. Fracking also produces [...]

  by Ronnie Citron-Fink Last year, President Obama started tweeting. According to BarackObama.com, messages that are signed BO are directly written by Obama, not a staffer. I keep looking for those BO signed Tweets in my Twitter feed and haven’t found too many yet. He’s a busy guy. Last month, I received a Tweet with a [...]

During the Super Bowl pre-game show on Sunday, Bay Area residents were treated to the full commercial during Sunday’s Super Bowl pre-game show on NBC. Part of a larger SeaWeb campaign to raise awareness about the poor health of our oceans, the ad used an unusual tactic–complete silence–to capture people’s attention during the lights and [...]

Fracking (the natural gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, which uses high pressure blasts of water mixed with a chemical cocktail to break the rock and unlock the gas), has been losing popularity recently. Hooray! In December, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officially blamed fracking for water contamination in Wyoming. Earthquakes in both [...]