With The World Watching, Shell Stumbles Toward Arctic Oil

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 With The World Watching, Shell Stumbles Toward Arctic Oil Royal Dutch Shell, the global energy giant, has already invested more than $4 billion in its Arctic drilling venture, but that was apparently not enough to purchase proper mooring in Alaska's Dutch Harbor and avoid a subsequent public relations mess. Midwest Drought Forces Nebraska Farms To Halt Irrigation Feds Providing $250K For Tsunami Debris Removal GOP Gov. Refuses To Address Controversial Ban South Korea Scraps Plan To Hunt Whales FDA Bans BPA From Baby Bottles And Sippy Cups BLOG POSTS Annie Leonard: Why Changing Your Lightbulbs Won't Save the Planet We need a big idea of how things could be better -- a morally compelling, ecologically sustainable and socially just idea that will not just make things a little better for a few, but a lot better for everyone. And we need to get active. Rep. Dennis Kucinich: If You Lived Downwind From This Power Plant, Would You Be Concerned? Davis-Besse, a nuclear power plant just 30 miles from downtown Toledo, does not provide the same margin of safety that it did when it was built 34 years ago. Will we allow the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to simply lower its standards? Scott Morgan: A Big Mistake In Obama's War on Medical Marijuana Obama once said that undermining medical marijuana laws was a poor use of resources, and he was right. But it's not only a poor use of resources, it's also just plain wrong. As a candidate, and as a leader, it's time for our president to make things right. Stanley Coren: Dog Facts: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Your Pet (PHOTOS) Dogs are full of mysteries and secrets. They have a long lost history that they never tell to humans. They have a mysterious way of thinking that only other dogs understand. They have a secret language that they use when they are talking to dogs and people. Carl Safina: Life Finds a Way -- But Needs Our Help The science is clear that coral reefs are in many places degraded and in serious trouble. But no science has, or likely can, determine that reefs and all their associated non-coral creatures are unequivocally, equally and everywhere, completely doomed to total non-existence.

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