Would you allow someone to come to your home and pump unknown, but possibly highly dangerous, chemicals into your water supply? Would you buy food into which those same chemicals have been injected? Would you feed it to your family? Of course not. So why would we allow fossil fuel companies to potentially contaminate our water supplies with chemicals that even they aren't aware of?

Last December, the Checks and Balances Project (C&BP) put out a groundbreaking study on how fossil fuel front groups get their pro-dirty-energy, anti-clean-energy propaganda into major newspapers across America.  What C&BP found was: 1) "Fossil fuel interests have provided at least $16.5 million to 10 [front group] organizations from 2006-2010;" 2) "Fossil fuel-funded organizations used targeted, focused messaging to support fossil energy sources and attack clean energy;" and 3) "Within a five-year period, these groups and their personnel have been mentioned on energy issues at least 1,010 times in major daily newspapers, averaging four mentions a week – or more than once every other day."

We all know that clean energy is on the upswing in the United States, both in terms of employment and generation.  But what about the dirtiest of dirty energy - coal? The Wall Street Journal looks at that subject, and what it finds is not encouraging - if you're a fan of coal, that is.  A few problems include:

In this new video, Tom Steyer explains that "Keystone XL would create just 35 permanent jobs while bringing real risks to the farms and towns and water supplies it would run through." A far better option: clean energy, which is "creating hundreds of thousands of...jobs" and repowering America. For more truth about Keystone XL, including how "[a]t every economic level, it is a bad deal for our country," see KeystoneTruth.com.

Courtesy of Treehugger, here's yet more evidence that wind power has become an economically competitive, mainstream power source across America.

This story by InsideClimate News should outrage every American, not just the ones facing the "invading army" of frackers on their land.

By Dave Georges, Tigercomm Senior Vice President

Greentech Media and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) both do consistently great work. Now, they're out with their latest example: the U.S. Solar Market Insight Report for 2Q13.  Here are a few highlights from the report's Executive Summary.

Why are we not surprised at this?

Here are five recommended reads for today (9/10/13).

By Mark Sokolove, Executive Vice President of Tigercomm