Tag: Energy
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Robert Redford: President Obama, Put the Arctic Off-Limits to Big Oil
Four years ago this week, BP’s Deepwater Horizon drill platform exploded. Eleven workers died that day. Their bodies were never found. Over the next 87 days, 210 million gallons of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico. It fouled fishing grounds, ravaged the coastline, and shut down tourism. The world got an ugly look at…
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Anti-Fracking Group Pressures Pennsylvania Governor Candidates For Moratorium Commitments
From filmmakers to grassroots advocates, excitement is bubbling for primary election day in Pennsylvania. That’s because a campaign called Pa. Voters Against Fracking just might force the fracking moratorium they have wanted for so long in a state where business is booming, but people of all ages are suffering from the toxic effects. The campaign, which…
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Washington University Sit-In: Students Against Peabody Coal Ask Which Side Are You On?
Entering its second week, the inspiring Washington University sit-in against Peabody Energy has already gone beyond its goals to cut school ties with the St. Louis-based coal giant, and forced the rest of the nation to ask themselves an urgent question in an age of climate change and reckless strip mining ruin: Which side are you on? [caption id=”attachment_330753″…
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EPA Focuses on Fracking, Leaks and More to Further Obama’s Methane Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday released five technical papers as the first step to enacting President Barack Obama’s recent plan to reduce methane emissions. The five white papers address different emissions sources and mitigation techniques regarding methane and volatile organic compounds. The sources of focus are fracking, leaks, compressors, liquid removal and pneumatic devices. [caption…
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Could We Win the Keystone XL Battle But Still Lose the Tar Sands War?
The Vietnam War might seem irrelevant to the environmental movement’s five-year effort to stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that, if approved by President Obama, would bring tar sands oil from Alberta to the Texas coast for refining and shipment overseas. But the more I look at the situation, the more I see worrisome…