fossil fuels

Kandi Mossett of Indigenous Environmental Network

Indigenous Environmental Network’s Kandi Mossett on Fighting Pipelines, Warming

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Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about how and why native tribes are fighting the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects…

EarthTalk

Cleantech: Still The Next Big Thing For American Venture Capitalists?

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Is so-called cleantech (alternative energy and related sectors) still the next big thing for American venture capitalists?

Warming World

Interview: Earth Policy Institute’s Lester Brown

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For the last 40 years, Lester Brown has been one of the primary forces in the sustainability movement. Besides publishing some 45 books, he is the founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute. EarthTalk’s Ethan Goffman recently caught up with him and two of his colleagues, Janet Larsen and J. Matthew Roney, to […]

EarthTalk

Can we really get off coal by 2050?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Amory Lovins, carbon dioxide, climate change, coal, fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse gases, oil, Rocky Mountain Institute

Dear EarthTalk: How does the Rocky Mountain Institute think we can get off of oil and coal by 2050 and save money in the process? — James Greenville, Redding, CT Colorado-based sustainability think-tank Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) was founded in 1982 by American physicist and environmentalist Amory Lovins to research and promote market-based solutions to our energy […]

Toxins & Pollution

Interview: Earthjustice’s James Pew

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EarthTalk’s Ethan Goffman caught up with James Pew, staff attorney for Earthjustice, to find out more about the upcoming Supreme Court case regarding power plant emissions of toxic substances… If you’d rather read it than watch it, the full transcript of our discussion with James Pew is below… EarthTalk: The EPA is working on rules to limit […]