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Vote Vets ad ties BP disaster with national security - In must-see video, Vet who served in clean-up with LA National Guard, explains "When I signed on with the National Guard, I did it to help protect America from our enemies... Not to clean up an oil com

Polls show that Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans overwhelmingly support clean energy and climate legislation

Vote Vets has another hard-hitting ad tying the BP oil disaster with the threat our dependence on fossil fuels poses to our national security:

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Vote Vets tough new ad: Everytime oil goes up $1, Iran gets another $1.5 billion to use against us.

Vote Vets ad ties BP disaster with national security - In must-see video, Vet who served in clean-up with LA National Guard, explains "When I signed on with the National Guard, I did it to help protect America from our enemies... Not to clean up an oil com

Polls show that Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans overwhelmingly support clean energy and climate legislation

Vote Vets has another hard-hitting ad tying the BP oil disaster with the threat our dependence on fossil fuels poses to our national security:

Related Post:

Vote Vets tough new ad: Everytime oil goes up $1, Iran gets another $1.5 billion to use against us.

Vote Vets ad ties BP disaster with national security - In must-see video, Vet who served in clean-up with LA National Guard, explains "When I signed on with the National Guard, I did it to help protect America from our enemies... Not to clean up an oil com

Polls show that Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans overwhelmingly support clean energy and climate legislation

Vote Vets has another hard-hitting ad tying the BP oil disaster with the threat our dependence on fossil fuels poses to our national security:

Related Post:

Vote Vets tough new ad: Everytime oil goes up $1, Iran gets another $1.5 billion to use against us.

Vote Vets ad ties BP disaster with national security - In must-see video, Vet who served in clean-up with LA National Guard, explains "When I signed on with the National Guard, I did it to help protect America from our enemies... Not to clean up an oil com

Polls show that Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans overwhelmingly support clean energy and climate legislation

Vote Vets has another hard-hitting ad tying the BP oil disaster with the threat our dependence on fossil fuels poses to our national security:

Related Post:

Vote Vets tough new ad: Everytime oil goes up $1, Iran gets another $1.5 billion to use against us.

Energy and Global Warming News for May 27: Greenland's uplift is evidence of rapid ice loss; Nation's largest concentrated PV project opens; Western U.S. grid can handle more renewables

Greenland's Uplift: Evidence Of Rapid Ice Loss

Scientists at the University of Miami say Greenland's ice is melting so quickly that the land underneath is rising at an accelerated pace.

According to the study, some coastal areas are going up by nearly one inch per year and if current trends continue, that number could accelerate to as much as two inches per year by 2025, explains Tim Dixon, professor of geophysics at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science...

Calling the shots in the oil disaster response - Two experts argue the Federal Government needs to take command

Whoever is running the disaster response is going to have limited success and what appear to be very visible failures (see Will eco-disasters destroy Obama's legacy? and 20-year veteran of the Coast Guard: "With a spill of this magnitude and complexity, there is no such thing as an effective response.")

The St. Petersburg Times argues, "Federal takeover of spill work isn't the answer."  But CAP's Tom Kenworthy and Brad Johnson make a compelling case below that it is.  What do you...

Making money on an oil disaster - Will BP take responsibility, or squeeze the tragedy for profits the way Exxon did?

ExxonMobil convened its annual shareholders meeting in Dallas this week as the magnitude of the ongoing BP oil disaster grows. This is a reminder that oil companies need to be held accountable for their actions—both while the oil gushes from the ocean floor and 20 years after the spill. The Exxon Valdez oil accident that slimed Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989 is a chilling reminder of the need for government oversight and corporate accountability.

Exxon and BP's broken...

Women's role in a warming world

In June climate negotiators will reconvene in Bonn, Germany for an interim meeting to discuss the working text of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, the international treaty that aims to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent climate change's worst effects. A relatively new aspect of this conversation is how women can help adapt to climate change and their unique circumstances when it comes to the...

Stunning NOAA map of Tennessee's 1000-year deluge - 15 sites had rainfall exceeding maximum associated with Hurricane Katrina landfall

What is a 100 year flood? A 100 year flood is an event that statistically has a 1% chance of occurring in any given year. A 500 year flood has a .2% chance of occurring and a 1000 year flood has a .1% chance of occurring. The map below relates [the:] amount of rainfall that fell to the chances of that amount of rain actually occurring.

Climate Progress has been documenting the woefully underreported Tennessee deluge of 2010 aka Nashville's 'Katrina'. It was an off-the-charts extreme...

Obama: BP disaster tells us we must pass a "long-term energy strategy" - Reid: "This is an opportunity for us as a country to move away from fossil fuel, to do a better job of looking at renewable energies that are available to us all over this country."

"I said to the Republicans, join with me," Obama said. "There's been some good work done by John Kerry and Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham. Let's go. Let's not wait. Let's show the American people that in the midst of this crisis, all of us are opening our eyes to what's necessary to fulfill the promise to our children and our grandchildren."

Greenwire (subs. req'd) reports today on Obama's remarks at an SF fundraiser for Sen. Boxer (D-CA) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign...