Daniel Kessler, Guest Writer
Daniel Kessler works with 350.org. He has previously worked various other advocacy groups and is a graduate of the University of Wyoming. Daniel calls Oakland, aka the Sunny Side, home.
Latest Stories from Daniel Kessler, Guest Writer - Page 12
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BP Ups Its PR Response, Goes On TV With Ads
BP's stock prices are tanking and its reputation is shot, but that's not stopping the oil giant from trying to repair its loses through public relations. Earlier this week, it announced that it would bring in Dick Cheney's former press
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US GHG Emissions Set To Increase Through 2020
While scientists say we need to peak our emissions by 2015 and then dramatically reduce them thereafter, the US is projected to actually increase our greenhouse gas emissions through 2020, according to estimates from the government
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BP's New Spokesperson Is Former Dick Cheney Aid
If it's bad and it's related to oil, you know Dick Cheney must be involved in some way. This was true from 2000-2008 and it's just as true today. Cheney's press secretary during his 2004, Anne Womack-Kolton, has been hired by BP to
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Bill Gates Says Large Scale Renewable Projects Are Decades Away
On Fareed Zakaria's CNN show, GPS, Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and oil in the
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The Soap Opera Continues As Graham Floats Utility Only Climate Bill
It's another day, which must mean there is a new development in the climate world's most drama-packed storyline: just what will the Senate do or won't do on its climate and energy bill? On Friday, the story's most mercurial character,
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BREAKING: Top Kill Fails, BP Still Searching For Answers to Stop the Flow
The New York Times is reporting that BP's latest attempt to stop the massive oil spill, the so called "Top Kill," has failed. The fate of the worst oil spill in U.S. history is no unknown as BP continues to work on a way to plug the
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Phillippe Cousteau Joins Bill Maher to Talk Deepwater Disaster (VIDEO)
Phillippe Cousteau, grandson of French explorer, filmmaker, and ecologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau, appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on
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Big Corporations Lobby President, Congress For Climate Legislation
A group of 60 companies, together with environmental groups, delivered a letter to President Obama and Sens. Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid yesterday calling for action on the Senate climate bill. No one knows the fate of the
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President Bush Speaks To The American Wind Energy Association
Remember President George W. Bush? You know, the guy who wished he had a magic wand to reduce gas prices and the guy who started that oil war over there? Well, he recently addressed the American Wind Energy Association conference in
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Washington Post Links Oil Spill Culprit and Nature Conservancy
The Washington Post's Joe Stephens today took another angle on the Gulf oil spill, reporting on the links between BP and the conservation group the Nature Conservancy. While many environmental groups have policies against accepting
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Colbert Has A Little Fun With The National Hummer Club (Video)
People around the world are outraged over the BP oil spill, which stands as yet another reason to move off of oil--now. But some don't seem to see it that way. Take the National Hummer Club, which is working to save the inefficient behemoth of a
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Rep. Markey Calls For Live Video Streaming of BP Spill
Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts has called upon BP to start offering live video from its oil spill in the Gulf. BP's submersibles have captured video and the oil giant has sent clips out to the pubic, but Markey wants live
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Rush: Make The Sierra Club Pay For The BP Oil Spill Clean Up
Loudmouth, crank and comedian Rush Limbaugh has spewed some serious whoppers over some serious environmental problems such as climate change and offshore drilling. A few months ago, he told New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin to "go
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RAN Sees Progress On Campaign Against JPMorgan Chase Over Coal
Rainforest Action Network has been campaigning against JPMorgan Chase for some time, trying to get the giant bank to stop bankrolling mountaintop removal. The San Francisco based group of rabble rousers might be now seeing some progress. At its annual
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Lizards May Go Extinct Over Warming
They may be the last creatures that one would think would be affected by rising global temperatures, but a new study finds that lizards are threatened, and many species may go extinct, if current warming trends continue. The study
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Darth Vader Throws His Weight Behind The Senate Climate Bill
Some enviros are not happy with the new climate and energy legislation announced this week by Sens. Kerry and Lieberman. Count Rainforest Action Network in this lot, which not only dedicated its "Greenwash of the Week" to the bill, but
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Feds Looking Into Charges Against Massey For Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
Most people who have seen videos or read accounts of Don Blankenship, the man who runs the owner of the failed Upper Big Branch mine, Massey Energy Co., know him to be a figure who can make one angry. Blankenship has mocked expanded
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EU Climate Chief: No US, No Global Climate Deal
The world needs a binding, fair, and ambitious climate deal, something that was not accomplished in Copenhagen at the end of last year. The stakes are even higher this year, but the U.S.'s
