Andrew Follett The United States benefited enormously from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in 2015; but media outlets have mostly focused on headlines about earthquakes and aquifer pollution — neither of which have sufficient evidence to draw conclusions. From foreign policy to cheap domestic energy and even booming job growth, here are five key stories the media…
Chris White A professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst told his students earlier this month that human beings are in the midst of a “sixth mass extinction,” according to audio obtained and published Tuesday by The College Fix. “We humans are creating the conditions for our own extinction as a species,” Timothy Pachirat, a comparative…
Andrew Follett A British couple paid almost $100,000 to clone a pair of puppies from the DNA of their recently deceased boxer named Dylan. “I’m trying to get my head round the fact that this puppy has 100% of the same DNA as Dylan,” the woman who ordered the cloned puppies told The Guardian. “I had Dylan since…
Andrew Follett Despite President Barack Obama’s pocket veto Saturday of attempts to repeal the Clean Power Plan and recent increases in taxpayer support, solar and wind energy are in a tough spot, requiring an estimated $90 trillion of investment to meet carbon dioxide reduction goals. The fundamental issues of solar and wind power are numerous, so let’s review the top 11. 1:…
FDA Failed Gay Americans With Changes to Blood Donation Regulations BY SARAH GOMPPER The queer community has made incredible strides in the past few years. As the New Year approaches, LGBT Americans, single and legally married, are looking back on 2015 with #Pride. This week, exactly five years since Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was overturned,…
Andrew Follett Environmentalists are increasingly claiming that global warming is a “women’s issue” and that the world needs “eco-feminism” as a path forward. “We know that the world’s poor feel the effects of climate change most acutely, but it turns out there is an even more vulnerable subset to that population: women” reads the article…
Michael Bastasch Wyoming regulators have found hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, did not likely contaminate water supplies in the town of Pavillion four years after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted its own botched investigation. State officials published findings Monday showing groundwater contamination near Pavillion was not likely caused by fracking, but instead by gas that naturally…
On the internet you can come across a lot of theories about government control and secret operations. Of course, most of it is fairly unbelievable. One persistent theory which succeeded in getting many people worked up in the early days of the internet is that the government is either spraying us or spraying the atmosphere…
Chris White Fresh off presenting his plan for making renewable energy sources the wave of the future at last week’s Paris climate summit, Tesla CEO Elon Musk pushed harder for a global carbon tax and a new look at solar power at a Tuesday meeting of the American Geophysical Union. During the confab, the electric…
Chris White Insatiably angry climate activists took to the streets of Paris near the Arc de Triomphe to decry the finished climate deal as a mass killer of millions of people. “The Paris Agreement is a death sentence for many people,” former climate negotiator for Bolivia, Pablo Solón, told Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman Monday. “A…