Worker deaths in the energy industry have risen dramatically over the past five years because of the oil and fracking booms. That's not necessary though. Better worker training would cut down on a lot of these accidents, but the companies, not facing harsh penalties from...
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If you aren't familiar with Robert Bullard, the founder of the study of environmental justice as a line of academic inquiry, you should be. For over 30 years, Bullard has.
Let me recommend Trish Kahle's Jacobin piece on the Miners for Democracy (1970s reformist United Mine Workers members) and the potential of energy workers embracing environmentalism. Brief excerpt: Ultimately, the.
Rural New Mexico is a very interesting place. It's basically the only rural area of the United States that is militantly pro-Democratic. When I lived in Albuquerque and Santa Fe from 2000-07, I'd be driving up there and see "Bush is a Murderer" graffiti and...
The energy industry continues its war upon the people and ecology of Louisiana: Last summer, an independent government authority responsible for flood protection for the New Orleans area sued more.
A friend of mine saw this on a billboard outside of Boise. Not sure I really get this one except to say that people ideologically opposed to wind energy have.
The obvious reason we should build the Keystone XL Pipeline is that the inevitable spills will stimulate the economy since we have to clean them up. Kinder Morgan wants to spend $5.4 billion tripling the capacity of an oil pipeline between the tar sands of...
There's a certain set of commenters here who love to hate my energy posts because they say I oppose everything. That's not true at all. I don't fall in love.
69 years into the Nuclear Era and no one still has any solution on what to do with nuclear waste. It's one thing when we are talking about nuclear weapons.
Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, and other Nobel Peace Prize winners are right about Keystone. Former president Jimmy Carter has joined a group of Nobel laureates who oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, warning President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry, “You stand...
The Laborers' Union continues to burn every bridge with other progressive communities with a napalm air strike: A letter distributed Friday by the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA).
Sure the Keystone XL Pipeline will be a terrible thing that will not only show the world that the United States is not serious about fighting climate change, but will.