The entire idea of burning biomass for "renewable" energy inevitably is going to lead to rich parts of the world burning the forests of poor parts of the world. Or not even just the poorest parts of the world, but even the rural U.S. South....
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Winona Laduke??? and other ???water protectors??? rally at the Wisc.-Minn. border on June 29, 2018, the morning after Line 3 is approved. They???re vowing to fight to keep the oil.
The need for clean energy is undeniable. But why is it that the people forced to sacrifice for all forms of energy are always the poorest members of society? What.
The West Virginia energy industry is a gift that truly keeps on giving. This is just ridiculous. In September 2020, West Virginia’s chief utility regulator told the state’s natural gas customers that she had good news: Their bills were about to drop significantly thanks to...
There's nothing Republicans won't turn into a full culture war these days, as this is really all they have. That includes in West Virginia, where the state legislature is considering.
Naomi Klein's essay on why Texans have turned the Green New Deal into a monstrous specter of evil that will somehow destroy the libertarian paradise of their minds is well.
I really enjoyed this New York Times op-ed about a fight by a historically black community to stop a dirty energy facility from being in their community and how it compared to when the same company proposed building something near Mount Vernon, George Washington's home...
On the off-chance that you're not sufficiently depressed and/or horrified at the direction the Republican party is taking in 2019, here's a dispatch from LGM's Ohio bureau: Back in July,.
Donald Trump may get the love of West Virginians, but there's not too much he can do about the fact that coal is increasingly just not worth turning into power..
My wish for 2018 is for the entire cryptocurrency boom to collapse in a titanic heap, leaving only charred ruins and a lot of LOLs in its wake. There are many reasons for this and anyone who loses their money investing in what is obviously...
Thank God Donald Trump won so the corrupt pro-capitalist neoliberal order could finally be defeated! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery.
One of the most distressing things about modern politics is the Upper Midwest going hard right. The only states Clinton carried in the region were Minnesota.