Tag: Energy
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First Nations Furious Over Mishandling of Canada’s Largest Coal Slurry Spill
Imagine for a minute that for generations, you and your family lived on ancestral lands abundant with wildlife and a beautiful river running through it. Like every youngster born in your family, one of your elders took you out to the river and patiently taught you how to swim and fish in the warm summer…
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New Study Traces Two-Thirds of Industrial Carbon Emissions to Just 90 Institutions
New peer-reviewed research has found that just 90 entities are responsible for extracting most of the fossil fuels that have been burned over the past 150 years. These “carbon majors” include 50 investor-owned companies, such as ChevronTexaco and Exxon-Mobil, 31 state-owned companies, such as Saudi Aramco and Pemex, and nine government-run industries in the former…
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House Energy Bills Would Unleash Fracking Free-for-All on Public Lands
By Bobby McEnaney Now that House Republicans have moved beyond closing national parks, stalling environmental safeguards and canceling research in places like Antarctica with the government shutdown, they’re scheduled to pass three wildly misguided energy bills. These bills, H.R. 1900, H.R. 1965 and H.R. 2728, would give industry complete control over federal lands, and shut…
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Help Free the Arctic 30 and Stand Up Against Fossil Fuel Extraction Everywhere
By Daryl Hannah and Phil Radford All around the globe, record numbers of people from all walks of life are being thrown into jails because they are standing up to protect the most basic of human needs—uncontaminated water, unpolluted lands and a liveable climate free from the ramifications of extreme fossil fuel extraction. If the greed-driven fossil fuel…
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California’s Cap-and-Trade Program Upheld in Court
[caption id="attachment_312347" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The Sacramento Superior Court upheld California’s cap-and-trade program just five days before the fifth scheduled carbon auction. The California Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Legal Foundation filed lawsuits claiming the one-year-old program, which auctions off the right to emit greenhouse gases, was unconstitutional. The court sided with the state, which…