Earlier, I noted that DeSmogBlog, a blog which aims to de-bunk the spin from climate change deniers, had sharply criticized Democratic candidate Barack Obama for a lousy green plan. Now, after howls from others in the green movement, DeSmogBlog has apologized to Obama and withdrawn a “Smogmaker of the ...   more »

Climate change activists who publish the DeSmogBlog just named Barrack Obama their Smogmaker of the Year, saying he deserves it for sowing confusion and delay on climate change but other green activists says DeSmogBlog hasn't done its homework ...   more »

This argument is the starting point for Jason Mark in a long piece in The Utne Reader which looks at the tension within the green movement over the role of nuclear energy in an era when climate change is the greatest threat to the planet: The argument over nuclear power reveals a long-standing tension in the environmental movement between those who say there are technical fixes to the greenhouse gas challenge and others who believe that we need a wholesale restructuring of society if we are to avoid global meltdown.... And so we find 'greenies' like Stewart Brand, he's the guy behind the Whole Earth Catalog, a After decades of decline, the nuclear industry is on the upswing, cheered along, oddly enough, by green activists who once fought the industry but now say that nukes are better than coal given the global threat of climate change.

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Earlier this month, I reported on a decision by sporting goods retailer Mountain Equipment Co-op to remove some products made with bisphenol A from store shelves. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical most often used to harden plastics products, such as baby bottles, water bottles, etc. Environmentalists say bisphenol A has ...   more »

Barbara Hayes is the 24–year-old National Director for the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. This week, she made a presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. While others there talked about science and policy, Hayes spoke about the emotional and generational impact of ...   more »

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development met this afternoon for the first time this Parliamentary session. Last session, this committee was the scene of more than a few partisan brushfires. It seems we may be in for more of the same this session.

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This just in from the Forest Products Association of Canada:

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) announced today that Canada’s forest products industry, a global leader in sustainable forest management, is setting a new bar for environmental responsibility and action on climate change: industry-wide carbon-neutrality by 2015 without ...   more »

A trio of environmental groups are suing federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Loyola Hearn for failing to take steps to protect the Nooksack Dace, a small freshwater fish that once flourished in streams in British Columbia's Fraser River Valley.
The Nooksack Dace is listed as an endangered species in ...   more »

Charles Ferguson and Sharon Squassoni writing at Foreign Policy’s Web site, argue:

As the planet warms, leaders from Washington to Beijing are pushing nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal. But this new strategy for fighting climate change has a fatal flaw: It can’t possibly work.

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Today, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainablee Development was to hear testimony from Mark Jaccard, an environmental economist at Simon Fraser University, who has often found himself at the centre of some policy debates. When Environment Minister John Baird, for example, wanted to trash Liberal ...   more »