LEED Points

Tag: Energy

  • The Devastating Legacy of Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction

    Watch this powerful video from Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, Our Back is Against the Wall, featuring Ponca elders Carter Camp and Casey Camp-Horinek describing the devastating legacy of oil exploitation in their communities in present day Oklahoma.

  • Southern Africa Development Community Targeting Renewable Energy Strategy

    Meeting in Maseru, Lesotho, the 33rd SADC Energy Ministers meeting said the development of a renewable energy strategy will, among other things, ensure that the Southern African Development Community is able to effectively manage and exploit the natural resources that are in abundance in the region.

  • Public Lands: Drilling Takes Precedence Over Conservation

    Under President Obama, the pace of drilling on public lands is double that of protecting public lands. The current U.S. Congress is the first since World War II to fail to designate a single new acre of protected land. The integrity of natural lands in the U.S. are in jeopardy. Severe droughts, raging wildfires and…

  • Fracking Creates Water Scarcity Issues in Michigan

    Concerns about the impact to local groundwater by massive water use—on a scale never before seen in Michigan fracking operations—are coming to a head …

  • Rockland County Bans Radioactive Fracking Waste

    Radioactive, toxic waste from gas drilling activities can potentially cause irreversible damage to water, air, land, soil and food supplies. Although this waste is hazardous and in fact exceeds the legal criteria for hazardous waste classification, it is categorized as “industrial waste” under federal and state laws as a result of special exemptions given to…