Tag: Energy
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How the Fracking Boom Impacts Rural Ohio
The shale gas drilling boom is not just a theoretical possibility for the 28,587 people of Carroll County, OH. They are already living with dramatic changes to the county’s woods and fields and rolling hills. This photo tour …
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Southern Leg of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Flunks Climate Test Too
What the report fails to mention, however, is the central fact that it is the 485-mile southern leg of Keystone XL already being constructed in Texas and Oklahoma—not the pipeline’s proposed northern leg—that will give TransCanada strategic access to …
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New Study Once Again Proves Mountaintop Removal is Simply Not Worth It
A report from earlier this year found that mountaintop removal could turn Appalachia from a carbon sink to a carbon source in the next 12 to 20 years …
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Indigenous Rights Controversies Around Belo Monte Dam Tie Up Brazil’s Courts
“There is no fresh water, no electricity, no health care, no schools and no sanitation. We cannot accept that the conditions, that are fundamental rights guaranteed by our constitution, be undermined in this way.”
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10 Percent of World’s Largest Companies Produce 73 Percent of Greenhouse Gases
Growing pollution at 50 of the world’s biggest-emitting companies threatens to undermine efforts to prevent catastrophic levels of global warming, according to a new report …