Who Are Your Favorites for the 2011 Environmental Hall of Fame/Shame?

Hall of Fame: James Hansen, whose efforts opposing the XL pipeline (see, for example, here, here, here, and here) played a pivotal role in delaying a decision (and hopefully preventing the construction) that monstrosity.

Honorable Mention: Cornell University, for their study proving that the pipeline will actually cost jobs, not 'create' them.

Award: A massive Viner presence at the 2012 Citizen's Climate Lobby International Conference, July 22 - 24, Washington D.C.

Hall of Shame: Forbes Magazine, for this ridiculously misleading article, which was picked up by the MSM, with absolutely no follow-up retraction - even when the scientists involved in that research claimed they had proven no such thing.

Award: A copy of Ethics And Journalism, by Karen Sanders, and a complete ban on ever using the words 'alarmist' or 'alarmism' in future MSM articles. They've already burned through their lifetime quota in that one piece.

Hall of Shame - Julia Gillard (Aussie Prime Minister), For being conspicuously inactive in dealing with Japanese whalers in Australian Territorial Waters.
Prize - Miniature harpoon & video of the annual killings.

Hall of Shame -- BP, for their continued coverup of the ongoing Moncado Well disaster.

Sorry I'm late!!!

I nominate

TransCanada for the Hall of Shame. We know that oil is a
poor way to go into the future for energy yet they insist on taking the “make-a
big-buck” path at the expense of the future.
The Canadian tar sands fields they(not TC themselves) are working are huge and will
therefore perpetuate the global drug like dependence on oil as the major source
of energy at the expense of the global economy and the global environment.

Prize

A Bitumen lined box for their soul.

My perennial favorite NOAA and DR. "Lube Job Jane" Lubchenco for all that she does.

From the Aleutian Island Chain, to the tip of Maine, the Free Market environmentalist has wreaked destruction on US Fishery's, and the residents of the Gulf.

Her nomination includes EDF and their Corporate Partners, Walmart and BP.

Nominating for all time hall of shame: Congressman Joe Barton of Texas.

He apologized to BP about how they were treated after the Gulf Oil spill: See apology.

He obstructed and fought efforts to stop mercury pollution: Story here.

But he fought against increased light bulb efficiency because of dangerous mercury containg CFL's: In his own words.

And the League of Conservation Voters score card summarizes it nicely: Scorecard

Smoking Joe Barton, the best damn Congressman right wingnuts and oil companies can buy - and he feels not one bit of shame.

Halliburton (Cheney), for the Halliburton clause in the Clean Water Act.

The EPA, for classifying a naturally-occuring chemical vital to life as a pollutant.

The Wisconsin GOP for this: wisconsin-gop-votes-to-break-native-american-treaties/