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Edible six-pack rings are a brilliant answer to plastic pollution

by JudeMathis Posted on May 23, 2016

Edible six-pack rings are a brilliant answer to plastic pollution

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Happy World Turtle Day!

Didn’t know that’s a thing? Unlike other made-up holidays — say, National Hug Your Boss Day — the occasion is both adorable and important.

Turtles are at risk all over the planet. For some species of turtles, life is so precarious that less than 0.1 percent will survive to adulthood. Turtles have an array of natural predators to worry about, as well as man-made hazards like cars. The lucky ones that manage to avoid humans and predators still risk getting trapped in or ingesting our garbage.

Now, one brewery has a plan that could help sea turtles and other ocean animals.

Saltwater Brewing, a beer manufacturer based in Florida, was founded by a group of surfers and all around ocean lovers. Aware that six-pack beer rings are some of the more common and deadly detritus found in the ocean, Saltwater created a six-pack ring that can actually be eaten. And it’s made from spent grain, the by-product of the beer itself, that would otherwise get tossed out.

While edible six-pack ring isn’t exactly health food for turtles, at least it won’t kill them. “It’s kind of like having a Sour Patch Kid,” brewery founder Chris Gove told Upworthy. “You’d rather have your kid eat a Sour Patch Kid than a Lego. That’s kind of how I see it.”

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Trump accepts climate change when it hits his golf course

by RichardWieck11 Posted on May 23, 2016

Trump accepts climate change when it hits his golf course

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Donald Trump is pro choice, until he’s not. He’s self-funding his campaign, except when he’s taking donations. He thinks Hillary Clinton is a “terrific woman,” until he’s running against her. And he thinks climate change is a hoax, until it threatens his business.

Politico reports that the presidential hopeful has applied to build a seawall by Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Ireland, citing erosion caused by “global warming and its effects.” Yes, that is the same global warming Trump is pretty sure was dreamed up by China.

Even a fellow Republican is shocked by the inconsistency.

“It’s diabolical,” former South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis, who advocates for action on climate change, told Politico. “Donald Trump is working to ensure his at-risk properties and his company is trying to figure out how to deal with sea level rise. … You have a soft place in your heart for people who are honestly ignorant, but people who are deceitful, that’s a different thing.”

As for Trump’s sea wall — which would compromise 200,000 tons of rock along two miles of beach — he’s going to need it: Rising sea levels and escalating storms spell bad news for coastal sand dunes. Trump’s businesses could go the same way if they ignore climate change.

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T. Boone Pickens backs Trump, expects to be dead by the time country collapses

by BrandiScanlon Posted on May 12, 2016

T. Boone Pickens backs Trump, expects to be dead by the time country collapses

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T. Boone Pickens has given up.

After penning a blog post last year indicating sympathy for the #NeverTrump cause, the billionaire oilman has abruptly reversed course and endorsed Donald Trump for president.

“We’ve turned our presidential selection process into a reality TV show,” Pickens lamented in that post in 2015. “Hell, it’s worse than reality TV. Why? Because this reality TV show is about selecting the leader of the Free World.”

But now, it seems, Boone has come to terms with the idea a reality TV star in the Oval Office, as ThinkProgress reports.

“Yes, I’m for Donald Trump,” Pickens said at a conference in Las Vegas this week. “I’m tired of having politicians as president of the U.S. Let’s try something different.”

Trump certainly is “different.” In addition to his famed plan to build along the U.S.-Mexico border, the real estate mogul has called for banning Muslims from entering the U.S. and has repeatedly said that climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese.

As for why Pickens — who gave $100,000 to Jeb Bush’s campaign — would change his mind about Trump, well, Pickens will probably be dead soon anyway. “I’m ready to take a chance on it,” the 87-year-old said in Vegas. “And just in case it’s a mistake, [I’ll] be gone.”

If only the rest of us were so lucky.

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Clinton is in coal country, and it’s getting messy

by ZFMHeike036 Posted on May 3, 2016

Clinton is in coal country, and it’s getting messy

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Hillary Clinton had one hell of a day during part one of her two-day swing through Appalachia.

Holding back tears, an out-of-work coal miner confronted Clinton at a roundtable event in West Virginia on Monday. His concern was with remarks Clinton made on the campaign trail earlier this year about putting coal miners out of business.

“I just want to know how you can say that you’re going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come here and tell us how you gonna be our friend,” former miner Bo Copley told the presidential hopeful, CBS reports.

Clinton apologized, and told Copley that her comments about miners at the CNN town hall in March were taken out of context — which they were. While Clinton did literally say, “We’re going to put a lot coal miners and a lot of coal companies out of business,” she was touting her plan to transition away from fossil fuels and toward a renewable energy economy. The $30 billion plan Clinton outlined would rebuild infrastructure and invest in education, public health, and initiatives to help rebuild communities ravaged by the coal industry.

“I do feel a little bit sad and sorry that I gave folks the reason or the excuse to be so upset with me, because that is not what I intended at all,” Clinton told Copley. “I’m here because I want you to know whether people vote for me or not, whether they yell at me or not, is not going to affect what I’m gonna try to do to help.” Copley, for his part, seemed unconvinced, and told CBS afterward that he was not swayed by Clinton’s apology.

Outside, protesters — whom Copley said he represented — chanted, “Go home, Hillary!” and “Benghazi! Benghazi!,” sounding, for a moment, an awful lot like Congress.

Guess who else showed up to one of Clinton’s events? None other than coal baron Don Blankenship, who was just sentenced a year in prison for creating an unsafe workplace that led to 29 coal workers’ deaths.

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Climate denier Cruz taps token believer Fiorina as running mate

by SelenaHollins Posted on April 27, 2016

Climate denier Cruz taps token believer Fiorina as running mate

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Ted Cruz, Texan presidential hopeful and Grandpa Munster lookalike, attempted to bring his faltering campaign back to life on Wednesday by making a big announcement: He’s tapping Carly Fiorina as his running mate.

Fiorina, if you managed to block out the first half of this unending presidential race, was one of over a dozen hopefuls who sought the 2016 GOP nomination. A business executive who has lost every political race she has entered — and who was booted out of Hewlett-Packard — Fiorina rose to national prominence early in 2016 race with a strong showing in the first of 1,000 GOP debates.

Fiorina is a conventional conservative, meaning she and Cruz share a lot in common. Among Fiorina’s more notable positions are her thoughts on abortion (against it), public education (privatize it), the Affordable Care Act (repeal it), the minimum wage (get rid of it), and the California drought, which she blames on “overzealous environmentalists.”

But there is one issue where she stands apart from Cruz. Unlike her buddy Cruz — who insists climate change science is “partisan dogma and ideology” — Fiorina has acknowledged the scientific consensus. She’s admitted in interviews, “scientists tell us that global warming is real and man-made.”

But don’t get too excited that Fiorina wants to do something about it. “I believe if you’re going to go to science, you need to read the fine print,” Fiorina said last year. “And here’s what the scientists say: A single nation acting alone can make no difference at all. The only answer to this problem, according to the scientists, is a three-decade global effort, coordinated and costing trillions of dollars. Are you kidding? It’ll never happen.”

In other words, why bother? We can see why Ted likes her.

Cruz’s announcement begs the question: Why is he even talking about a running mate? Cruz’s only chance at winning the nomination at this point is if Donald Trump turns out to be a talking donut with a wig on top. The National Review speculates that Cruz wants to distract from Trump’s five-primary win on Tuesday, which isn’t a bad guess. And Fiorna is indeed a woman, something none of the other GOP presidential hopefuls can boast and what Cruz might consider valuable in trolling Hillary Clinton.

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Republicans in Congress try to paperwork the EPA to death

by RoyalOShaughness Posted on April 15, 2016

Republicans in Congress try to paperwork the EPA to death

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In news that should surprise absolutely no one, an investigation shows the Republican-controlled Congress has it out for the Environmental Protection Agency. Its method: Annoying it to death.

Bloomberg BNA analyzed documents requests sent to the EPA and found that in just 2015, Congress sent the agency 884 letters requiring a response, 60 document requests, and one subpoena. In response, the EPA’s staff had to provide Congress with over 276,000 pages of documents.

All this paperwork impedes the EPA’s ability to do its job, according to Jeffrey Lubbers, a professor of administrative law at American University. Lubbers told Bloomberg BNA that the “EPA is probably one of the few agencies that gets this many. Because agencies have to take these requests very seriously, they have to spend a lot of time on them.”

The irony here is that after Congress flooded the EPA with requests, it criticized the agency for acting slowly. This isn’t entirely surprising from a Senate led by Mitch McConnell, who is currently urging states to refuse to work with the EPA on complying with President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. McConnell is hardly alone in his disregard for the EPA. “If [the EPA] actually acted in a responsible way, they wouldn’t get all these letters,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told Bloomberg BNA. “These letters are all generated by their irresponsible actions.”

As to what these “irresponsible actions” are, Barrasso didn’t say. Maybe he’ll request more documents to get to the bottom of it.

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Chipotle aims for a Better Burger (without making anyone sick)

by UlrichFocken Posted on March 31, 2016

Chipotle aims for a Better Burger (without making anyone sick)

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Stop the presses: Your favorite purveyor of burrito bowls and foodborne illness is branching out into burgers.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Chipotle Mexican Grill is developing a new burger chain. The name? Better Burger.

Better Burger will continue Chipotle’s existing model of providing fresher fast food than the classic preservative-laden slop you find at most American chains. Chipotle currently has around 2,000 burrito joints around the U.S., but sales and stocks plummeted last year after roughly 500 people in 13 states contracted food poisoning from the eatery.

The great E. coli, salmonella, and norovirus outbreaks of 2015 also forced the chain to close several stores around the country, and led to at least one lawsuit. In February, Chipotle closed all its stores for a day to discuss the crisis and proper food-handling protocol with employees. It also gave away a whole lot of burritos.

Diversifying the revenue stream could be a wise move, according to the WSJ, as the fresher fast food market has gotten increasingly crowded by competitors like Shake Shack and Five Guys. As to whether or not Better Burger will actually be a better burger, stay tuned, but it certainly can’t be any worse than the 14-year-old McDonald’s hamburger that looks the same as the day it was made. Or can it?

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Coal company paid its execs $8 million in bonuses just before filing for bankruptcy

by Lawerence4929 Posted on March 18, 2016

Coal company paid its execs $8 million in bonuses just before filing for bankruptcy

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Arch Coal, the second largest coal company in the U.S., filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in January in an effort to reduce its debt, currently valued at $5.2 billion. Three days before, according to bankruptcy filings, Arch awarded company executives with $8 million in bonuses.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Arch executives and directors collected $29.17 million in wages, benefits, bonuses, director fees and other payments between January 2015 and this past January, according to papers filed this week in the St. Louis bankruptcy court. The payments included $8.12 million in bonuses paid out to seven executives on Jan. 8. Some $2.78 million of that amount went to Chairman and Chief Executive John Eaves. Arch sought chapter 11 protection on Jan. 11.

An Arch spokeswoman declined to comment.

However, a person familiar with the payments said the bonuses were awarded under longstanding, companywide incentive plans that had been approved by Arch’s board of directors. Some of the bonuses were earned over 2015, while the remainder was paid based on the company’s performance over a three-year period ended 2015.

Since 2012, Arch has laid off 3,000 employees.

While this may seem like an act of corporate malfeasance to anyone who is not an coal exec, Arch is hardly the only fossil fuel company to lavishly award the bosses even as the business founders. In 2014, Alpha Natural Resources, the third largest coal company in the U.S., was required to pay a $27.5 million fine for water pollution and spend $200 million cleaning up facilities. Soon after, amid tumbling stock prices, the CEO and president of Alpha were each given $2 million bonuses. The next year, Alpha filed for bankruptcy.

Clearly, the coal industry is in trouble. Prices are down, companies are going bust, banks are pulling their support, and workers are losing their jobs. But even as Big Coal dying, its CEOs are doing just fine.

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