Tag: climate change
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200+ Greet Obama at Chicago Fundraiser: Keep Climate Promise, No Keystone XL
The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has energized millions and become a test of President Obama’s commitment to dealing with the climate crisis. For the past several months activists have met President Obama at nearly all of his public events and d…
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Fracked Gas: A Bridge Fuel to Nowhere
To start, natural gas is not the clean-energy solution it’s touted to be. According to the Pembina Institute, if only five of the 12 proposed liquefied natural gas terminals were built on the B.C. coast, they could spew 63-million tons of carbon a year into the atmosphere—exceeding the amount now produced by the Alberta tar…
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Top 5 Reasons LNG Exports Are a Very Bad Idea
The Department of Energy has failed to consider the environmental and health consequences of such a radical increase in natural gas drilling. They really should, because both the potential risks and the known harms are enormous. Here are five environme…
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What’s Wrong with Coal and Right with Renewables
Today the Sierra Club released a new video highlighting the dangers of mining, burning and disposing of coal. This short video offers a helpful resource for explaining the problems with coal-powered dirty fuels, the benefits of clean energy and the nee…
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BLM Holds Colorado Coal Auction, Turns Back on Climate
In his State of the Union address, President Obama promised that he would “respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.” Today, the Bureau of Land Management is set to break that promise by selling 21 million tons of coal …