The US Fish and Wildlife Service has a long backlog of species waiting years for an initial evaluation.

42 species have gone extinct waiting for protection.

I see the hand of business-dominated government at work.

North Dakota has cut off water to the protesters blocking an oil pipeline that threatens to ruin their water supply if it leaks.

That oil which does not leak will instead be burned, so it will contribute to an even worse global disaster. We need to leave that oil in the ground.

Likewise the oil not yet leased in the Gulf of Mexico, which if burned would emit the equivalent of around 10000 years of operation for a typical coal-fired power plant.

Obama visited Louisiana and praised FEMA's response to the floods. However, real leadership would be to use these floods as an example to mobilize the country to build renewable energy. Protesters understood this, as they occupied the office of the agency that does the leasing. "President Obama: More Drilling = More Floods," they said.

Calling for Europe to send more election monitors to the US to check for voter suppression.

Leading Doctor Calls Climate Change Gravest Health Threat of 21st Century.

Berkeley's tax on sugar-sweetened drinks seems to be working to reduce consumption of them.