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Weekly Mulch: The Dirty Truth about Natural Gas and Energy Innovation

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
The argument against natural gas got a boost this week, when a congressional investigation turned up evidence that oil and gas companies were using diesel gas to extract gas from the ground.
Natural gas companies have insisted that their newly popular hydraulic fracturing (known as “fracking”) techniques are safe, but as [...]

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Weekly Mulch: What’s in Your Water? Nuclear Waste, Coal Slurries and Industrial Estrogen

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
It won’t be long before the world has to confront its diminishing supply of clean water.
“We’ve had the same amount of water on our planet since the beginning of time, ” Susan Leal, co-author of Running Out of Water, told GritTV’s Laura Flanders. “We are on a collision course of a very [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Coal Ash in Our Stockings

Editor’s Note: Due to the holidays, the Weekly Mulch will appear on Thursday afternoon both this week and next week. We’ll resume regular Friday morning posts in 2011.
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
It’s the naughty children who get coal in their stockings, and it seems like Americans must have been naughty this year. Because across [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Obama’s Responsibility for the BP Oil Spill

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
President Barack Obama is in Louisiana today, and BP is saying it will know in 48 hours if its attempt to “top kill” the leaking oil well in the Gulf Coast by pouring mud and cement over it has worked.
If the scramble to stop the leak has ended, the slog [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Why the Senate Climate Bill is Doomed

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), though down one man, finally released their stab at climate legislation this week. One of the most crucial sections in the bill covers off-shore oil drilling, an issue that was supposed to help solve the tricky math of reaching 60 votes. [...]

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Coal – mess – when will we learn?

A coal ship struck the Great Barrier Reef this weekend, spilling heavy oil over several miles of the reef. The ship was carrying coal from Australia, the world’s largest exporter of coal, to China, the world’s largest consumer of coal. The Neng Sheng 1, a Chinese-owned freigher struck the reef 15 miles outside shipping lanes [...]

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Weekly Mulch: New bills and old money

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Climate legislation is returning to the Senate’s docket, and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this version, a compromise bill spearheaded by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), can pass without getting caught in the morass of money and politics that has delayed action [...]

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Climate Change – on the run? (Is this for real?)

The science regarding climate change and the impact that CO2 can have on our atmosphere when out of balance has been clear for almost 50 years.
Yet, amazingly this evening as I searched Google under “Climate News” three articles appear which in effect seriously question the science, our need to act, and the steps we are [...]

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Weekly Mulch: Murkowski Vs. the EPA

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
On Thursday afternoon, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) pulled out a rarely-used Congressional tool in an attempt to keep the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon and other greenhouse gasses. Sen. Murkowski offered a “resolution of disapproval” of the EPA’s impending action, which would limit companies’ carbon emissions.
The resolution would [...]

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What is 13.5 Trillion?

We burn about 13.5 trillion pounds of coal each year world wide.
(That’s a lot!)
Math, and Science teachers – interested in climate change education……
Ask your students – what can that number be compared with???  Post an answer…

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