Tag: Energy
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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 …
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Taxpayers Footing the Bill for the Nuclear Renaissance in Florida
ADAM CHIMIENTI — Actually, it is doubtful that most even knew about the nuclear cost recovery legislation that has been hidden in the energy bills of customers of Florida Power and Light and Progress Energy since 2006. The legislation is a way to get new …
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New Yorkers Call on Gov. Cuomo to Protect Thriving Tourism Industry from Fracking
NEW YORKERS AGAINST FRACKING — “If Governor Cuomo is serious about creating a thriving tourist industry that continues to grow our economy and upstate jobs then he will realize that fracking is incompatible with that future …
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Appalachians Rally in DC to Demand Clean Water and an End to Mountaintop Removal
APPALACHIA RISING — Citizens from across the country traveled to the nation’s capitol today to urge an end to mountaintop removal coal mining, a radical form of strip mining in Appalachia that has destroyed more than 500 mountains and buried or poisoned more than 2,000 miles of streams in Central Appalachia …
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BREAKING: Another Coal Export Terminal Bites the Dust
POWER PAST COAL — “This is another huge victory for the people of Oregon and another blow to the coal companies. The evidence is in that dirty coal export plans are not viable in the Pacific Northwest. Now families across …