Another railroad tanker derails near Albany, N.Y.

How many more of these will take place before a tanker rupture occurs and a real awful disaster makes headlines? How about we lessen the chances of that ever happening by backing off our addiction to oil?

Crude oil and New York State's capital city

The neanderthal U.S. petroleum biz keeps on trucking, even if it is by rail more than tractor-trailer and tanker. And most folks forget this little fact: It takes burning the fossil fuel to get the tanker full of fossil fueld to the marketplace where other people then burn fossil fuel in order to buy more fossil fuel. Fossil fuel = greenhouse gas. Duh. Read about the ongoing debacle of America's new energy transportation network.

Burlington-area Vermonters protest the Keystone debacle

I wish I had been able to attend this, but the e-mail advertising this and other protest rallies in Vermont did not, unfortunately, list times and dates. Oh well. I did join friends from Pennsylvania in the giant protest rally in Washington D.C. last year. Great fun.

The Keystone XL debacle and Nebraska and Nebraskans

This op-ed authored by a Nebraskan talks about the building of community to battle an on-rushing monster, a crude oil pipeline. All Americans would do well to join the clan of Nebraskans fighting to keep the Cornhuysker State free of the  TransCanada pipeline edebacle/boondoggle.

Obama tells donors of tough pollitics on environment

I continue shaking my head in wonderment over the jobs vs. clean air, clean water, healthy land, healthy fish and wildlife populations because that is the undercurrent the mainstream media outlets continue to blather on about. This article explores what the president said/did during his just-finished fund-raising expedition to California.