Tag: Energy
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Powering America: How Solar Energy Creates Green Jobs and Grows the Economy
SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION — “Today, solar is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States, providing good-paying jobs for more than 119,000 American workers …
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Groups Sue Interior Secretary to Protect California Public Lands From Fracking
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY / SIERRA CLUB — By opening up this land to oil exploitation, the Obama Administration is putting our air and water at risk of contamination by dangerous fracking chemicals …
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Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber’s Pursuit of a Healthy Environment
ECOWATCH — “The biggest obstacle in our way, not to diminish the power of the oil and gas industry, which I fully acknowledge is the wealthiest and most powerful industry on the planet, but it’s really the advanced resignation of the people that they are about to run over that is my biggest problem right…
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Another Reason to Ban Fracking: Obama Administration Approves Lax Guidelines for Radioactive Exposure
FOOD & WATER WATCH — When it comes to exposure to radioactive materials, how much is too much? If you’re like most people, or scientists, the answer is probably “any amount.” But the Obama administration …
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Opponents Rally Against Keystone XL Pipeline at State Department Hearing
BOLD NEBRASKA / “ALL RISK, NO REWARD” COALITION / SIERRA CLUB — Landowners, community leaders, experts and activists gathered in Grand Island, NE with a clear message to State Department on the Keystone XL pipeline: this pipeline is too risky for American families because of its threats to water, land and climate …