Bellingham’s Mayor, Dan Pike, announced that he will work to oppose the coal export terminal proposed by Peabody Energy and SSA Marine at Cherry Point. In this classic battle of economic growth vs the environment, he stated in his announcement, “I am clear today that…
The Christian Science Monitor has a nice roundup on how the 2012 group of Republicans feel about climate change. Basically, they were against it, before they said they don't believe it exists. Former US Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R) of New York, a strong supporter of…
You might recall the story of Cole Rasenberger. When he was in second grade, Cole was assigned a project to be an environmental activist. He researched environmental causes around him and found that McDonald’s was buying paper that destroyed endangered forests in his home state.…