Stories by Carl Pope

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Gulf Spill: America's Chernobyl?

Posted on May 4, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Prevention, not rapid response, is the key. It's time to start phasing out offshore oil production now, as a first step to making America genuinely independent of oil.

Why We Are Failing to Protect Our Drinking Water

Posted on Sep 25, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

For 30 years clean water has been the public's number one environmental priority, but we still don't seem able to act to protect those vital supplies.

Can Bush's Assault on Our Waterways Be Undone?

Posted on Dec 5, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

The Bush administration is exiting with three major regulatory assaults on our nation's waterways. Can this damage be quickly undone?

Palin's Trajectory to National Prominence Powered by her Anti-Environmentalism

Posted on Oct 24, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Her campaign was born because of her defiance of the Clean Water Act.

EPA Woud Like You to Drink Rocket Fuel

Posted on Sep 25, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Even though the pollutant perchlorate has been found to cause health risks, EPA doesn't mind that its in your drinking water.

Five Things You Need to Know about Hurricanes

Posted on Sep 8, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Three years after Katrina and a week since Gustav, we are in need of a sobering reminder of some basic truths.

The $4 Moment

Posted on Jun 9, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

America's oil policies have meant economic suicide for Detroit.

What's Right with Kansas

Posted on May 5, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Kansans take a stand against Big Coal, and win.

John McCain Should Be Ashamed of Himself

Posted on Feb 12, 2008, Source: Sierra Club

Not only did McCain not vote for clean energy, but his staff lied about it.

Who's Afraid of Rachel Carson? Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and Countless Others

Posted on May 29, 2007, Source: Huffington Post

One hundred years after her birth and decades since her death, there is a cottage industry on the reactionary right to blame Carson for almost all of the world's ills.

A 10-Step Program for the U.S.

Posted on Apr 27, 2004, Source: The Nation

Ten simple steps the U.S. can take to rejoin the 'coalition of the environmentally willing' and transform the nation.

Killing the CAFE Standards

Posted on Mar 21, 2002, Source: TomPaine.com

Caving into an all-out lobbying campaign by the auto industry, the Senate terminated an important bill which would have reduced our dependence on oil.
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