Arkansas Residents Complain Oil Spill Making Them Sick

April 10, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Arkansas Residents Complain Oil Spill Making Them Sick Sherry Appleman awoke abruptly in the middle of the night less than 48 hours after a pipeline rupture last month sent thousands of barrels of heavy crude oil into the streets and swamps of Mayflower, Ark. Continue reading... Senate Confirms Interior Secretary GOP Mayor On Climate Change: 'I'm Not An Idiot' Keystone XL Absent From White House Budget PHOTO: Is This The Fluffiest Animal EVER?! Schwarzenegger Pens Op-Ed On 'California's Silent Disaster' Maddow Slams Exxon's 'Paper Towel' Cleanup Efforts Great Lakes Face Alarming New Environmental Crisis Nuclear Evacuations Can Get Messy And Slow, Study Suggests BILLIONS Of Cicadas To Swarm The East Coast Arkansas Residents Complain Oil Spill Making Them Sick Maddow Slams Exxon's 'Paper Towel' Cleanup Efforts WILLIAM S. BECKER Let's Talk Climate, Mr. President So let's hear from you, Mr. President. Since it's so hard to put carbon back in the smokestack or to put the pieces back after our super-storms, let's have a national conversation about climate change in the coming months rather than the coming years. Don't worry about us. Continue reading... MICHAEL BRUNE ExxonMobil's Mayflower Mess No wonder ExxonMobil is doing everything it can to keep reporters and everyone else as far away from the Mayflower disaster as possible. The more the American public learns about the real cost of tar sands crude, the more opposition to the Keystone XL will increase. Continue reading... CLINT WILDER RPS Attacks Go Against the March of History In at least two states, Kansas and Arizona, damaging bills have been either voted down or withdrawn. But in cases like these, can we really declare victory for clean energy when all we've done is successfully defend what we already have? Continue reading... KNOWLES SCIENCE TEACHING FOUNDATION Vermicomposting: "Lowly" Worms and School Lunch My students often remark on a 'weird' smell that comes from our vermicomposting bin in the classroom. A slightly "earthy" smell is produced as the worms break down fruits, vegetables, and starches into fertilizer that contains readily available phosphorous. Continue reading... BEN ACHESON Modern Environmentalism -- 'People Would Rather Believe Than Know' When E.O. Wilson said "people would rather believe than know", he perfectly summed up modern environmentalism; the movement which has been radicalised to the extent that its policies are now better described as anti-science, anti-business and even anti-human; not pro-environment. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003