Tag: Energy
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How Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. — With low cost disruptive technologies like cheap, fast and efficient electric vehicles, and solar and wind technologies poised to displace Big Oil, the industry is using its hold on the Republican Party to permanently …
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City of Sacramento and SolarCity Announce Completion of Solar Projects at Two City Water Treatment Plants
SolarCity and the City of Sacramento today announced the completion of two solar installations to power the city’s E.A. Fairbairn Water Treatment Plant on the American River and the Sacramento River Water Treatment Plant on the Sacramento River. SolarCity financed, installed and will maintain the solar systems at no cost to the City, with the…
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Mayflower Residents to John Kerry: Listen to Joe Biden, Reject Keystone XL
“ALL RISK, NO REWARD” COALITION —Residents of Mayflower, AR who were victims of Exxon’s Good Friday tar sands spill that coated their neighborhood in toxic tar sands traveled to DC to hand-deliver a letter to Secretary Kerry asking …
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Republican Senators Boycott Vote on EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy
ECOWATCH — “This latest attempt by Republicans in the Senate to derail progress to protect our air, our water and the health of our families is nothing short of cowardly …
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35 Arrested Protesting Frac-Sand Mining Facilities
WINONA AREA CITICZENS CONCERNED ABOUT SILICA MINING / WINONA CATHOLIC WORKER — On April 29, more than 100 people shut down silica sand mining operations simultaneously at two facilities in the city of Winona …