EPA Scandal Over Coal Ash Industry | Freezing Weather & Climate Change | Obama Funding Nuclear Renaissance

FEBRUARY 2ND, 2010 ENVIRONMENT: TOP STORIES THIS WEEK Coal Ash Industry Manipulated EPA Data, Ghost-Wrote Agency Reports for a Decade The industry "watered down official reports, brochures and fact-sheets to remove references to potential dangers." So-called "environmental benefits" were aggrandized.READ MORE Joshua Frank / TruthOut.org Could All the Freezing Weather Lately Have Anything to Do With Climate Change? Anthropogenic warming has thrown what was once a stable climate into disarray, and may be leading as much to ruinous droughts as to record-breaking freezes. READ MORE By Scott Thill AlterNet Would You Trade a Bigger House for More Happiness? A 14 year-old girl convinced her affluent family to trade in its mansion for a house half its size and donate half the proceeds to charity. Here's what they found. READ MORE By Ashley Braun Grist.org World's Nations Set Emissions Reduction Targets: Who's Pledging What? For the time being, it looks like the so-called 'global climate accord' is a piecemeal agreement of stitched-together promises and voluntary pledges. READ MORE By Brian Merchant / TreeHugger Why Is Obama Trying to Prop Up a Doomed 'Nuclear Renaissance'? Obama is poised to vastly expand a bitterly contested nuclear loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both financially and politically. READ MORE By Harvey Wasserman / AlterNet Sarah Palin Continues to Peddle Energy Falsehoods, Urges Americans to Stay Addicted to Foreign Oil Palin has chosen to use her Facebook page -- a medium devoid of critics -- to further push her "Drill Baby, Drill!" ideology. Why are we not surprised? READ MORE By Joseph Romm / Climate Progress State Of The Union: Climate Change Takes A Back Seat Has climate change been drowned by the rising seas of economic concerns? Melted by debates over health care? READ MORE By Pablo Paster / TreeHugger How Can We Talk About Transformational Change Without Losing Hope? Every time we're subjected to more dramatic predictions of global warming without being given solutions, a seed of helplessness is planted in our souls. READ MORE By Frankie Colmane / AlterNet "Climate-Gate": Still a Pseudo-Scandal for the Ignorant Joshua Holland Big Oil Takes Over Marine "Protection" in California danbacher Reducing GHG emissions, one bite at a time slowfoodisbetter Looking for our great food coverage? Check out our new Food special coverage page and sign up to receive our free weekly Food e-newsletter. You are subscribed as: ignoble.experiment@arconati.us SUPPORT ALTERNET | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY | UNSUBSCRIBE © 2010 Independent Media Institute All Rights Reserved 77 Federal St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107