by MCDC | Jun 5, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Climate Change, Environment, News
Last month, the U.S. Senate considered eight bills that would modify the Endangered Species Act, most of which aim to saddle resource-strapped federal wildlife agencies with burdensome new hurdles and requirements. Many also include rules that would force agencies to...
by MCDC | Apr 19, 2015 | Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News
We’ve all seen those touchy-feely TV ads with baby deer, butterflies, and sylvan streams — claiming that some big corporate polluter is nature’s best friend. There’s a word for such hokum: greenwashing. Leave it to the Koch brothers, however, to invent a whole new...
by MCDC | Apr 9, 2015 | Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News
Californian artist Ross Dickinson dramatized his home state’s eternal confrontation of nature and man by exaggerating the steep slopes of the hills and the harsh contrast between the dry red wilderness and the green cultivated land (1934). CREDIT: FLICKR/ CLIFF Any...
by MCDC | Mar 8, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Global Warming
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), right, listens to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) speak at a news conference in Washington about their opposition to the climate change bill on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. (Photo: Brendan...
by MCDC | Mar 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Issues
A new documentary shows how a “professional class of deceivers” has been paid by the fossil fuel industry to cast doubt on the science of climate change, in an effort akin to that from the tobacco industry, which for decades used deceitful tactics to deny...
