Tag: Energy
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Number of U.S. Sailors Devastated by Fukushima Radiation Continues to Climb
U.S. sailors irradiated while delivering humanitarian help near the stricken Fukushima nuke say their health has been devastated. So many have come forward that the progress of their federal class action lawsuit has been delayed. Bay area lawyer Charles Bonner says a re-filing will wait until early February to accommodate a constant influx of sailors…
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Urgent Request to Stop Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline Ignored by White House
The following letter was sent to the White House on Dec. 10 at the invitation of President Obama’s Senior Advisor, Valerie Jarrett. This urgent request from embattled Texas landowners for a face-to-face meeting with the president has so far been ignored. TransCanada has announced plans to bring the southern leg of Keystone XL pipeline commercially on line Jan. 22. [caption id=”attachment_317631″…
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National Campaign Supports 100 Grassroots Anti-Fracking Activists
As the national movement to ban fracking picks up steam, MoveOn.org Civic Action is announcing a new #FrackingFighter initiative to support 100 grassroots activists who are working to ban fracking in their local communities. MoveOn is awarding a total of $50,000 to the Fracking Fighters, along with materials, training and strategic support. The initiative seeks to slow…
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300,000 West Virginians Told Not to Drink Water After Coal Chemical Spill, 600+ Sick
Do you take sugar in your morning coffee? How about 4-methylcyclohexane methanol? A large spill of a chemicals used to remove impurities from coal occurred Thursday in Charleston, WV, contaminating the Elk River less than a mile upstream of the intake for the state’s largest drinking water treatment plant. As many as 300,000 West Virginia…
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Parents Outraged Over Radio Disney’s Participation in Pro-Fracking Educational Tour
In December, an educational program funded by Ohio’s oil and gas industry and sponsored by Radio Disney went on a 26-stop tour of schools, science centers and fairs across the state promoting oil and gas drilling. Complete with coloring books and a pipeline-building contest, the “Rocking in Ohio” program has environmental activists—as well as parents—upset over the…