Tag: Energy
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No Nukes Groundswell Hits California, Solartopia Rising
This comes as the nuclear industry is in nearly full retreat. Two U.S. reactors are already down this year. Yet another proposed project has just been cancelled in North Carolina. And powerful grassroots campaigns have pushed numerous operating reactor…
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Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy
President Obama selected Dr. Ernest Moniz, a scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as his choice to run the DOE. His confirmation has received mixed responses from health and environmental advocates …
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SkyTruth Testifies Before Congress on Fracking Disclosure Rules
The hearing was entitled “DOI Hydraulic Fracturing Rule: A Recipe for Government Waste, Duplication and Delay.” SkyTruth’s testimony addressed the need for public disclosure of chemicals used in fracking.
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Breaking: Interior Department Bows to Pressure from Oil and Gas Industry, Weakens Fracking Rules
EcoWatch The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed an updated set of rules governing hydraulic fracturing, on public lands today. The controversial oil and gas development technique—in which drillers blast millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth to force oil and gas from underground deposits—has been linked…
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Will NAFTA Be the Deciding Factor in Keystone XL?
DeSmogBlog By Farron Cousins As the public anxiously awaits the U.S. State Department’s final decision on the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, the discussion has largely ignored the elephant in the room: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Thanks to NAFTA, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, the State Department…