Energy / Global Warming

Hands Across the Sand and Land in St. Pete.Photo courtesy of Danielle Carapellucci.Hands Across the Sand and Land joined Keystone XL National Day of Action on May 17th in a global call: No Dirty Energy, Clean Energy Now. Communities around the country are facing threats from coastal and offshore drilling, the Keystone XL pipeline, seismic

The National Climate Assessment (NCA), released last month, paints a bleak future for the Gulf states. Compiled every 4 years by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee and over 300 experts, the NCA examines the effects of climate change on the United States. According to the report, rising seas, increasing temperature, and decreasing freshwater are all

Joining Hands in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2012. From Alaska to Florida, from Pakistan to Kenya, thousands of people will join hands at noon on May 17, for the fifth annual “Hands Across the Sand and Land” event. Come to your local Hands event to call for clean and renewable energy and to say “no”

A cleanup worker gathers oil on the shore of the Texas City Dike, March 24, 2014. Photo courtesy of USCG/Stephen Lehmann.On March 22nd, a bulk carrier collided with a barge containing a million gallons of fuel oil in Galveston Bay, Texas – spilling approximately 168,000 gallons of oil into the surrounding environment. This spill, which

Florida Panther at Big Cypress National Preserve, which is near the site of the proposed fraking well. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service/Ralph Arwood.On March 11th, a powerful coalition of neighborhood groups, environmental organizations and outraged citizens gathered at a community center outside Naples, Florida to take a stand against acid fracking. They raised

Converging in front of the White House. Photo by Zakee Kuduro, EAC.”The power is not in that building. It’s out here, it’s us!”Standing in front of the White House, Michigan activist Chris Wahmhoff represented the cumulative voice of over one thousand youth who had converged in Washington, D.C. nearly two weeks ago.Those thousand plus stood

RE: “Poll: Most Louisianians see climate change as serious problem” And Louisiana’s best science agrees with them. The 2012 Master Plan is head-and-shoulders the best science and engineering effort to keep Louisiana afloat, and perhaps one of the more honest climate adaption strategies around the world. And that plan outlines what is at stake: from

This articles was excerpted from Gulf Currents, GRN’s quarterly newsletter. To read the rest of the December 2013 edition of Gulf Currents, click here.Mobile River at its confluence with Chickasaw Creek. Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual LibraryJust three miles north of downtown Mobile sits Africatown, a community founded by the last known

From rising sea levels to stronger storms and ocean acidification, the Gulf of Mexico’s communities, wildlife and ecosystems are already dealing with the consequences of climate change. For our sake and for future generations, we need to take action to prevent its worst impacts. EPA is currently considering pollution standards for climate change-causing carbon pollution.