Is the shale gas boom a bubble?
From Green Right Now Reports The U.S. shale boom, being touted as able to deliver 100 years of domestic energy supply, is nothing more than the latest investment bubble, asserts a report released this...
View ArticleObama Administration, a step closer to approving the Keystone pipeline?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now The Obama Administration released its revised environmental impact assessment on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline Friday, portraying the project as a safe...
View ArticleWhy the ‘China excuse’ to bail out on climate action doesn’t work
Andrew Winston For anyone who doesn’t want to reduce carbon emissions, China seems like a great scapegoat. The defenders of the status quo argue that U.S. companies will be at a disadvantage if we tax...
View ArticleDrilling Deeper: The wealth of business connections for Obama’s energy pick
by Justin Elliott ProPublica, March 20, 2013, 9:53 a.m. MIT Energy Initiative Director Ernest Moniz (Photo: MIT) When President Obama nominated Ernest Moniz to be energy secretary earlier this month,...
View ArticleWipe that smirk off your face Millennial, your parents are greener!
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now You know those righteous 20-somethings you see on the news inveighing about how they’ve got the Earth on their shoulders and have to pick up the pieces of their...
View ArticleHappy Earth Day 2013 . . . Americans are turning activist
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now I remember 2007, when we started this website. People were tip-toeing toward greener behaviors. Activists were writing kids’ books explaining the greenhouse effect...
View ArticleManchester neighborhood in Houston: Ground zero for fossil fuel emissions
From Green Right Now Reports Life can be risky along the Houston ship channel, where some poor neighborhoods have ended up blanketed by air pollution — from the highway, the ships and industrial...
View ArticleGermany goes full speed ahead with alternative energy
Germany’s plan to craft a new clean-air future involves big steps forward with wind and solar programs, and scrapping nuclear energy. This video editorial compares Germany’s approach with that of the...
View ArticleThe true price of gas
This video helps explain why fossil fuels are not just polluting, but inefficient. It will make you wish your car ran on anything but gasoline.
View ArticleGasland II: America’s fracking nightmare and somnambulent energy policy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now One of the talking points that has convinced Americans to look politely away from the muck and dirty water while the oil and gas industry fracks tens of thousands of...
View ArticleDOE Secretary Moniz explains the “all of the above” energy plan and defends...
Green Right Now Reports In his first major policy address since taking over at the Department of Energy, Dr. Ernest J. Moniz sought to explain the administration’s “all of the above” energy plan and...
View ArticleKeystone XL — Americans are divided
GRN Reports: Dozens of national and regional groups — Sierra Club, 350.org, the Natural Resources Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Bold Nebraska, Tar Sands Blockade — have been fighting the Keystone XL...
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