Tag: climate change
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VIDEO: Facing Climate Change—How Ocean Acidification is Impacting Oyster Farmers
FACING CLIMATE CHANGE — Kathleen Nisbet and her father, Dave, farm oysters in Washington’s Willapa Bay. They recently shifted some of their business to Hawai’i, after ocean acidification started killing baby oysters in local hatcheries …
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Have Shale Plays Hijacked Our Energy Future?
“Ten percent of the Lower 48 has been leased by oil companies. That’s more acreage than we plant in corn and wheat. Oil and gas extraction is now the dominant land use on the continent. “In short, shale plays are a peculiar sort of blessing. For sure, they’ve given us a staggering amount of…
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Three Coal-Fired Power Plants to Retire in Major Climate and Clean Energy Victory
SIERRA CLUB — Today a coalition of citizen groups, states and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a landmark settlement agreement with American Electric Power requiring AEP to stop burning coal by 2015 at three power plants in …
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Environmental Scorecard: How Your Elected Officials Voted in 2012
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS — From an environmental perspective, the best that can be said about the second session of the 112th Congress is that it is over. Indeed, the Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives continued its war on the environment …