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January 16, 2011- NASA Press Release Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The two years … Continue reading →

January 15, 2011-by Bob Weber and Jennifer Graham in the Winnipeg Free Press. A Saskatchewan farm couple whose land lies over the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases seeping from the soil are killing animals and … Continue reading →

January 13, 2011-by John Russell in the Indianapolis Star. Senate leader’s day job is ripe for conflict of interest, watchdogs say. State Sen. James Merritt and electric utilities bump into each other at nearly every turn. In his re-election campaign … Continue reading →

January 5, 2011-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. It started mostly with sports car drivers in the middle 1960s sharing pleasantries, but was popularized by the Smothers Brothers with their Comedy Hour and finally became the nearly universal sign of brotherhood … Continue reading →

January 5, 2011-by Bill Opalka in Renewables Biz For years the economic benefits of wind turbineson farms have been limited to discussions about lease payments. Now, a new study seems to indicate the presence of spinning blades has the added economic … Continue reading →

January 5, 2011-by Carrie La Seur, president of Plains Justice, an organization similar to Valley Watch but dealing with the northern Plains States. Some spectacular numbers were reported by the Associated Press yesterday. Apparently the U.S. Department of the Interior is … Continue reading →

Janmuary 4, 2011-by Jeff Biggers in the Huffington Post– She was a tireless, funny, and inspiring orator, and a savvy and brilliant community organizer. She was fearless in the face of threats. As the godmother of the anti-mountaintop removal movement, she gave birth … Continue reading →

January 3, 2011-by John M. Broder in the New York Times The Environmental Protection Agency is planning for the first time to regulate the disposal of coal ash, the potentially hazardous residue of the burning of coal in power plants … Continue reading →

January 3, 2011- A new video from Peter Sinclair. This video features an eight minute lecture from NASA scientist, James Hansen. [youtube id=”ZGFAWzjO378″ w=”660″ h=”440″]

January 1, 2011-by Steve Mufson in the Washington Post. “Deutsche Bank predicts coal’s share of electric power generation will tumble further, from 47 percent in 2009 to 34 percent in 2020 and 22 percent in 2030.” The headline news for … Continue reading →

December 31, 2010-by Grant Smith, Executive Director of the citizens Action Coalition. (Editor’s note: Valley Watch is a joint intervener with the Citizens Action Coalition in several dockets before the Indiana Utility Regulator Commission). On Dec. 26, The Star published … Continue reading →

December 28, 2010-by Gary Hart, former US Senator  from Colorado in Reader Supported News. It is quite possible that the greatest human challenge in this century will be how or whether we humans can fairly share what belongs to all. … Continue reading →

December 28, 2010-by John Blair valleywatch.net editor-An early videographer, “superfoot 69” just posted a memorable video about the battle to keep the nefarious Ensco Corporation from building a hazardous waste incinerator in Tell City, IN in 1988. Tell City had … Continue reading →

December 28, 2010-by Carol Polsgrove in the Bloomington Alternative –Carol Polsgrove is author of Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement and other books. She can be reached at ccpolsgrove@gmail.com. I remember my first ride on a new four-lane highway … Continue reading →

December 24, 2010-The Louisville Courier Journal Editorial– So many shoes are dropping in the ongoing Duke Energy-Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission scandal that you’d think there was a centipede involved somewhere. The reach of the mess is both micro and macro. … Continue reading →