It’s too late to stop the worst of the damage we’ve done to the climate, but if we act now we may be able to save our species. Eleanor Goldfield, host of Act Out! explains the high stakes we face in the latest episode:
Don’t get me wrong — even if we were to switch to 100% renewables TODAY, we’d still be largely fucked. However, we can still mitigate the effects of climate change by doing this — and doing a lot of this …
Former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry has joined the board of directors at Energy Transfer Partners, a natural gas and propane company headquartered in Dallas, Texas that has proposed to build a controversial Bakken crude oil pipeline across Iowa.
The announcement, which appeared in Energy Transfer Partners’ February 3 Form 8-K filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), comes as Perry faces two Texas state-level felony charges for abuse of power. Perry pleaded not guilty to both charges and District Judge Bert Richardson recently ruled against dismissing Perry’s case.
“It isn’t immediately clear how much Perry will be paid for his board position,” explained the Texas Tribune. “According to regulatory filings published on the company’s website, non-employee board directors were paid $50,000 a year in 2013.”
