Mike Tidwell’s Posts

• Utilities and coal-state Democrats are wrecking our last chance on climate change 0

  Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

  Utility companies and their coal-state apologists in Congress are wrecking America’s last, best chance to solve global warming. By insisting on free pollution permits, utilities are creating a climate bill that is complicated, unfair, and destined to fail in future years.

• See you in jail: It's not symbolism when you live in D.C.

  Why I'm joining 2,000 people for a global warming mass arrest on Monday 3

  Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago

  On Monday, I'm going to get arrested just two blocks from the U.S. Capitol building. I'll peacefully block the entrance to an energy plant that burns raw coal to partially power Congress. My motivation is global warming. My colleagues in civil disobedience will include the poet Wendell Berry, country western signer Kathy Mattea, and Yale University dean Gus Speth.

  Up to 2,000 other people from across the country will risk arrest, too. We'll all be demanding strong federal action to phase out coal combustion and other fossil fuels nationwide that threaten our vulnerable climate.

  This mass arrest might seem symbolic… Read More

• I Spy Something Green

  Police spy on climate activist while global warming goes unarrested 4

  Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago

  

  Terrorist Activist Mike Tidwell (at podium) exhibiting clearly threatening behavior.

   

  Photo: chesapeakeclimate

   

  I'm not sure what's more shocking: the news that the Maryland State Police wrongfully spied on me for months as a "suspected terrorist," or that, despite surveillance of me, officers apparently wouldn't recognize me if I walked into their police headquarters tomorrow.

  I'm a former Peace Corps volunteer, an Eagle Scout, church member, youth baseball coach, and dedicated father. I also happen to be director of one of the largest environmental groups in Maryland,… Read More

• Yes, Virginia, there is a clean energy constituency

  Will Democrats take the votes but ignore the voters in increasingly powerful Northern Virginia? 2

  Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago

  Northern Virginia voters solidified their reputation Nov. 4 as a virtual factory for Democratic victories. Collectively, the Virginia suburbs of D.C. broke for Obama in numbers exceeding 60 percent. The margin is comparable to such liberal bastions as California and New York. Given the results, and given that 1 in 3 Virginia voters now lives in the fast-growing region, it's no wonder state Democrats see a gold mine. Already Gov. Tim Kaine (D), elected 2005, and U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D), elected 2006, can credit their victory margins to "NoVa." And Democratic Senator-elect Mark Warner considers the region his base.

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• Can you spell c-o-a-l?

  The dirty secret behind D.C.'s high-tech Virginia suburbs 7

  Posted 1 year ago

  There's a chance the presidential election will come down to who wins the state of Virginia. And the key to winning Virginia comes down to who does well in the D.C. suburbs of northern Virginia. This area is an economic powerhouse where no fewer than one in three Virginia voters live. Just mention the words "northern Virginia" across the mid-Atlantic region and the hyphenated adjectives come back at you: Fast-growing, high-tech, well-educated, high-income.

  No wonder the presidential candidates can't seem to stay away from the area. Despite perennial traffic congestion, "NoVa" has that certain gleam of 21st century life, from… Read More

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