Tag: Energy
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New Keystone XL Comedy Video Challenges Industry Claims
Today, on the first day of the State Department’s public comment period for the recently released environmental impact report on the Keystone XL pipeline, acclaimed comedians and climate justice advocates team up to release a provocative new video blasting the pipeline’s impact on jobs and the environment. Combining environmental justice politics with hilarious satire straight…
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Exclusive: Duke Energy Ongoing Coal Ash Spill Into Dan River
In the wake of what may be the third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, Waterkeeper Alliance deployed a disaster response team to assess the damage and monitor remediation efforts by Duke Energy and the of North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The team, which included staff from Waterkeeper Alliance, Yadkin Riverkeeper…
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GAO Report Confirms Coal Leasing Program ‘Out of Date,’ Costs Taxpayers Nearly $30B
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the result of its investigation into coal leasing practices at the Bureau of Land Management, which confirmed earlier reports that coal companies have taken advantage of a lax bidding process for leasing coal on publicly owned lands, resulting in nearly $30 billion in loss for U.S. taxpayers. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) echoed…
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Why Big Coal Operates in Constant State of Violation
The dirty secret in President Obama’s “all-of-the-above” energy policy was quietly overlooked in his State of the Union address. Three weeks after global media attention on the West Virginia coal-chemical disaster, the most important line of information still remains buried in an AP report: … [A] review of federal environmental enforcement records shows that nearly three-quarters of the…
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Breaking: Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill Pollutes River and Threatens Drinking Water
Yesterday afternoon, Duke Energy reported that it spilled between 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River near Eden, NC. To put the volume in perspective, the spill is the equivalent of 413 to 677 rail cars of wet coal ash poured into a public drinking water source. The spill is located…