Category: Texas
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Stopping LNG Exports Key to Preventing the Spread of Fracking
ECOWATCH — Here’s the nightmare scenario: LNG exporters, together with their gas-producing partners in the shale gas fields, are forced to take all of the necessary steps to ensure they don’t default on the terms of …
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SINGULARITY SOLAR ENERGY GIFTS LOW-INCOME HOUSING WITH SOLAR POWER
Singularity Solar Energy, a non-profit whose mission is to provide solar energy solutions to low-income homeowners in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, recently installed solar panels on the new home of a low-income resident with the help of Habitat for Humanity. This was the first of many solar donations the organization is planning on for the…
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Coalition Launches Keystone XL ‘All Risk, No Reward’ TV Ad
ALL RISK, NO REWARD COALITION — The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will run through America, but does not benefit America. Based on the State Department’s Environmental Impact Statement, the pipeline will create only 35 permanent jobs. It would also put American communities at …
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World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013, After Record 2012
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE — Even amid policy uncertainty in major wind power markets, wind developers still managed to set a new record for installations in 2012, with 44,000 megawatts of new wind capacity worldwide. With total capacity exceeding 280,000 megawatts, wind farms generate carbon-free electricity in more than 80 countries, 24 of which have …
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Activist Climbs Flagpole Outside Refinery Office, Hangs Banner Denouncing Investment in Keystone XL
TAR SANDS BLOCKADE — Today’s protest, from activist Perry Graham, is in response to a recent announcement by LyondellBasell’s CEO Jim Gallogly that they were “just finishing up” a $50 million upgrade to increase the Houston Refining facility’s capacity to process tar sands. The planned upgrade …