Tag: Energy
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Dear Sen. Rockefeller: Call ‘Time Out’ on Mountaintop Removal
Four years after the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s frank admission that “most members of Congress, like most Americans, oppose the practice” of mountaintop removal mining, “and we may not yet fully understand the effects of mountaintop removal mining on the health of our citizens,” West Virginia residents traveled to Washington, DC to make a special appeal to…
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Japan’s New ‘Fukushima Fascism’
Fukushima continues to spew out radiation. The quantities seem to be rising, as do the impacts. The site has been infiltrated by organized crime. There are horrifying signs of ecological disaster in the Pacific and human health impacts in the U.S. But within Japan, a new State Secrets Act makes such talk punishable by up to ten years…
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Chinese Media Criticized for Touting ‘Benefits’ of Shanghai’s Air Pollution
For Chinese citizens worried about smog, which has been blanketing major cities and smashing air pollution records recently, China’s state media has some advice: look on the bright side. [caption id="attachment_314836" align="alignnone" width="500"] Shanghai’s concentration of toxic particulate matter (PM) reached 602.5 micrograms per cubic meter last week—the highest level since records began last December.…
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Scientific Report: Keystone XL and Arctic Drilling Must Be Stopped
By Andy Rowell This is the scientific paper that should stop all Arctic drilling now. It should also stop the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. It is yet another warning that business as usual for the oil industry is just not acceptable. And it once again reiterates a simple truth so, so unpalatable to the Canadians:…
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Protests Stop Chevron Fracking Operations in Romania
U.S. oil company Chevron were forced to halt exploratory drilling for shale gas at their drill site in eastern Romania for the second time in as many months, following mass anti-fracking protests. Around 300 local people turned out for the protest—while an equal number of riot police were called in to restrain activists. [caption id=”attachment_314780″…