As the old saying goes: "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Or in the case of Toyota: "You can't have your green and fight it too."

With a well-earned reputation as a leader in the development of fuel efficient cars it boggles my mind that Toyota continues...

Everyday people around the world gathered at events yesterday to send the message to political leaders to Wake Up on the issue of climate change.

The Global Wake Up Call saw 2682 events in 134 countries yesterday and here are some of the amazing photos. You can find...

Close to a million New Yorkers woke up to a very "special" edition of the New York Post today with a headline screaming "We're Screwed" and a lead story outlining how "climate change caused by human-created greenhouse gases is threatening the health, livelihood, and security of New Yorkers --...

The world's largest global investors met in New York yesterday and called on government leaders to sign an ambitious, fair and binding deal at the Copenhagen climate change summit being held later this year. 

Hosted by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, the all-day International Investor...

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in Washington, DC this week again trying to ride Obama's coattails on clean energy. As a Canadian and writer on climate change issues I can give you a quick and easy rundown of this right-wing George Bush light leader of the North:

There will be a lot of noise around the world on Sept. 21st when people all over the globe -- from New York to Guatemala to Dakar -- join together in a Global Climate Wake Up Call.

Organized by the amazing folks at Avaaz, Oxfam, Greenpeace and 350.org, the...

You probably won't be surprised when I tell you that Glenn Beck wasn't the mastermind behind the campaign to remove Van Jones from his position as the head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. That would be giving Beck way too much credit.

Turns out that the attack...

In a potentially devastating move for the Washington, DC coal lobby, Duke Energy has announced that it is canceling its membership with the controversial American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE).

You'll recall that ACCCE was the coal industry front group recently involved in the Bonner and Associates...

On her show last night MSNBC's Rachel Maddow lambasted the latest coal lobby astroturf campaign for using generic clip art stock photos for their "FACES of Coal" campaign. I guess the coal lobbyists behind the campaign couldn't find any real people willing to pose as pro-coal cheerleaders and instead...

It has now been revealed that a Washington, DC PR powerhouse that was recently exposed as being part of an anonymous "grassroots" pro-coal group also has significant ties to the Republican Party.

As regular readers will recall, earlier this week we exposed the ties between a new pro-coal...

The very-active Avaaz Action Factory was in rare form recently when they showed up for a naked protest in front of the offices of DC's Astroturf King, Bonner and Associates. The point of their action was to not only get a nice shower but to drive home the point...

With a history that could surprise the most jaded Beltway insider, Jack Bonner, head of the D.C. public relations firm Bonner & Associates, might just be the king of corporate astroturf in the nation's capital.

Whether its on the health care debate or the proposed clean energy bill, a notorious...

Filmaker David Novack never set out to make a film about the American coal industry, but he couldn't help himself after he witnessed firsthand what coal was doing our health and environment.

I first met Novack a couple of years back when I was planning a new project called

Oil industry employees continued their ‘Energy Citizens’ tour today in conservative towns in New Mexico, after holding a “glorified company picnic” in Houston on Tuesday.  Local New Mexico blog FBIHOP reports that the API/NAM/Chamber of Commerce/FreedomWorks/Big Oil astroturf rallies will take place today in Roswell and tomorrow...

Operation Free, a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and national security organizations, today slammed the ‘Energy Citizens’ Astroturf campaign orchestrated by the American Petroleum Institute and other Big Oil interests as a detriment to America’s energy security.

“Veterans understand the connection between energy security, climate...

Note: the times, dates and locations of all the upcoming American Petroleum Institute "Energy Citizen rallies" are at the end of this post.

As regular readers will recall, I was the first blogger to report on an API memo obtained by Greenpeace outlining a series of "energy citizens"...

There was a glimmer of hope that the planet may still be saved - in a no-holds-barred softball match on the lawns of the Monument, the Greenpeace "Sea Slugs" destroyed Newt Gingrich's "Newt-ralizers" to win the Summer League Championships.

Down by seven, the Sea Slugs rallied a come back in...

Five new forged letters fraudulently sent to Congressmembers have turned up in an ongoing Congressional investigation into the Astroturf campaign launched by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) and it subcontractor Bonner & Associates.

The newly confirmed forgeries were sent to at least three Congressmembers...

An internal memo obtained recently by Greenpeace USA details polluting interests’ plans to launch a nationwide astroturf campaign attacking climate legislation at public events scheduled throughout the final weeks of recess before the Senate returns to debate the issue in September.

The email memo (download a PDF copy),...

Okay, let's try this again.

Peter Sinclair, producer of the well-known "Climate Crock of the Week" video series, posted a video debunking weatherman Anthony Watts, who runs a Climate Denier Den also known as his Watt's Up With That blog.

The video was auto-scrubbed by YouTube after...