Environment

EPA Weighs Sanctions Against BP

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica May 25, 2010 Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts, a move that would ultimately cost the company billions in revenue and could end its drilling in federally controlled oil fields.Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Salazar: ‘All-Stars’ Will ‘Kill This Well’

Staff / Truthdig May 25, 2010 The interior secretary, defending the government's response to the ocean of oil building up in the Gulf of Mexico, says the U.S. has assembled "a team of all-stars that are now leading an Apollo 13 type effort" to kill the well and contain the disaster. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Fault Lines’: Climate Debt

Staff / Truthdig May 23, 2010 Check out the latest "Fault Lines" episode, in which Avi Lewis travels Bolivia to talk about climate change, climate debt and the current environmental movements in the global south that challenge our perceptions about climate and development. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

’60 Minutes’ Investigates BP’s Blowout

Staff / Truthdig May 18, 2010 A whistle-blower tells the news show that BP has another troubled oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Also in this episode: L.A.'s visionary young maestro, plus Andy Rooney complains about something. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 17, 2010 These deformed individuals carrying out the global genocide against human life and the natural world lack the capacity for empathy. They possess the peculiar ability to organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications.Those carrying out the global genocide against human life and the natural world organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Capitalist Hagiography Has Little Room for Saints

Stuart Whatley / Truthdig May 5, 2010 Perhaps the most enervating element of the BP-Deepwater Horizon disaster is its eerie familiarity -- the sheer, inexorable predictability of it all. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Clean Coal, ‘Dirty Business’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 29, 2010 A new documentary investigates the "true social and environmental costs of coal power" and debunks the myth of clean coal. America and China both use much of the world's energy and have much of its coal. This fight is only going to heat up. Check out extensive clips after the jump. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy California

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Mar 26, 2010 There's a disaster waiting to happen in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and a handful of wealthy farmers seem to like it that way. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

Cracking Down on Fracking

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Feb 24, 2010 Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Power Plant for the Backyard

Staff / Truthdig Feb 22, 2010 The impresario behind this newfangled clean-energy box sees one of his mini power plants in every home, but it's not clear if the little miracles even work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hey, Dummy: Climate Change Is Real

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Feb 19, 2010 We're the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can't be stupid. We're just pretending, right? We're not really taking seriously the "argument" that the big snowstorms that have hit the Northeast in recent weeks constitute evidence -- or even proof -- that climate change is some kind of hoax. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Obama’s Nuclear Option

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Feb 17, 2010 President Obama's publicly financed resuscitation of the nuclear power industry in the U.S. is bound to fail, another taxpayer bailout waiting to happen. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )