energy
The Global Climate Outlook: Bad
Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/15 03:20PMThe NYC Skyline May Soon Lose Some of Its Luster
Dayna Evans · 04/30/15 10:23AMHamilton Nolan · 12/30/14 09:05AM
Oil Is So Cheap Now. So What?
Hamilton Nolan · 12/01/14 11:16AMHappening Now: A Vapid Political Charade About the Keystone Pipeline
Hamilton Nolan · 11/14/14 02:32PMKill the Oil Companies Before They Kill Us
Hamilton Nolan · 11/03/14 12:42PMYour Cable Box Is Using All the Electricity
Hamilton Nolan · 06/17/14 02:01PMJudd Hirsch's Giant Proposed Wind Turbine Terrorizes Quaint Town
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 11/16/13 01:21PMActor Judd Hirsch (Taxi, Jeff Goldblum's Dad in Independence Day) would like to rid himself of that dang electric grid. To do so, he would like to build a 177-foot-tall electric wind turbine that will stand alone on his property. To Judd's neighbors in small Denning, New York, that's 15 stories of sheer terror.
America's Nuclear Waste Is Just Sitting All Over the Place
Hamilton Nolan · 10/25/13 04:00PMThis $1,000-an-Hour White-Shoe Lawyer Will Also Heal You With Crystals
Max Read · 08/27/13 09:15AMGet Ready for More Blackouts
Hamilton Nolan · 08/13/13 08:57AMWind Energy Apocalypse on the Horizon, Says One Person
The Oiler · 04/07/13 11:25AMWhat's the last time you heard from the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar? Not recently, you say. Well, that's because he's been busy cooking up a plot to destroy America increase the amount of energy our country gets from wind turbines. Salazar told the Associated Press he's confident America's largest wind energy project, Cape Wind, will break ground this year off the coast of Massachusetts.
Hamilton Nolan · 01/02/13 11:30AM
Should We All Be Doing Inhalable Caffeine, or What?
Hamilton Nolan · 02/20/12 09:47AMThe FDA is going to investigate whether the "Aeroshot" canisters of inhalable caffeine are actually safe. When you hear about widely available and totally unregulated drugs like this that are available with absolutely no medical supervision whatsoever to any kid who wanders into a convenience store, it makes you ask: is that stuff any good?
Obama Delays Decision on Filthy Tar Sands Pipeline
Jim Newell · 11/10/11 05:17PMWhich Candidates Mispronounced 'Nuclear' at Tonight's GOP Debate?
Matt Cherette · 10/18/11 10:08PMGoogle Continuously Uses 260 Million Watts of Electricity
Seth Abramovitch · 09/08/11 10:24PMBachmann's Plan to Drill the Everglades Not Winning Many Fans
Jim Newell · 08/31/11 03:11PMOne of President Michele Bachmann's plans for beefing up American energy independence would be to drill the Everglades. Again, that's "drill the Everglades," as a supposed means of extracting mass quantities of fossil fuels. This idea may be just terrible enough to disgust some of her fellow Tea Partiers.
The Justin Bieber Inhaler Makes Coal-Induced Asthma Fun!
Seth Abramovitch · 05/12/11 12:50AMAt Coal Cares — a new initiative from Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company — you can order cool inhalers for your asthmatic kids, so long as you live within 200 miles of a coal plant. I'm partial to The Bieber, but there's an inhaler here for every taste — even one studded in fake Swarovski crystals! If it all sounds too good (or too awful) to be true, that's because it is. The entire coalcares.org website is a fake, created by The Yes Men — those Swiftian agitators with a talent for mounting elaborate practical jokes. Peabody, however, is very real, and an army of their lobbyists are currently attempting to block what would be the EPA's "first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants" — legislation that could prevent 120,000 new cases of childhood asthma per year. As the Bieb might say, that's kinda lame. [coalcares.org, image via Coal Cares]