Tag: Energy
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Taking a Stand Against Tar Sands for Three Year Anniversary of Kalamazoo Spill
Today marks the three year anniversary of when Enbridge’s tar sands pipeline spilled more than a million gallons of bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. This incident stands as America’s longest-running and most expensive oil cleanup …
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Legislation Introduced to Eliminate Fracking Industry Loophole
Fracking is now responsible for 90 percent of domestic oil and gas production, with thousands of wells popping up across the nation. The number of wells is expected to skyrocket during …
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At What Costs Will the New Jersey LNG Port Be Built?
If Port Ambrose is licensed as an import facility, there is every reason to believe that it will be used to export Marcellus Shale gas to Europe and Asia. That will mean more fracking …
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World’s Largest Coal Company Leaves Chinese Community Without Water
For ten years, the Chinese state-run organization Shenhua Group, the world’s biggest coal producer by volume, has sucked this land dry, exploiting water resources at a shocking scale from …
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Coal Export Battle Gains Momentum in Washington State
Coal trains are composed of approximately 120 rail cars, resulting in an average of 60,000–420,000 lbs. of coal lost per train each trip. A massive increase in rail traffic and longer trains are expected in the future …