Tag: Energy
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Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Squash Renewable Energy Age
To survive this era, humanity must become much smarter about this new kind of energy and then take the steps necessary to compress the third carbon era and hasten in the Age of Renewables before we burn ourselves off this planet.
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Chevron Gets $2 Million Slap On Wrist for Refinery Fire
The multinational Chevron Corp. has been fined $2 million after accepting a plea bargain following an August 2012 fire at a Richmond, CA, refinery that sent 15,000 people to the hospital …
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UK Fracking Protests Intensify As Officials Push Exploratory Drilling
As protests over shale gas continue to grow in the UK, it has been revealed that half of Britain’s cabinet ministers could see fracking in their constituencies, a revelation expected to deepen…
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Victory in Fracking Wastewater Fight in PA
If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern PA might have spent each day of the past three years dumping up to 500,000 gallons of untreated natural gas drilling wastewater…
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Breaking: Daring Aerial Blockade Halts Tar Sands Pipeline Construction in Michigan
This morning, Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI-CATS) took direct action in the Crane Pond State Game Area to halt expansion of Canadian corporation Enbridge Energy’s tar sands pipeline 6B.