Tag: Energy
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Grim Consequences of Canadian Tar Sands’ Rapid Growth
As Alberta Premier Alison Redford heads to Washington D.C. this week to push U.S. officials on the Keystone XL project, a coalition of Canadian environmental groups wrote a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to consider the impacts of tar sands production on human health and the environment, as well as the failures by…
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Save Water and Money by Replacing Your Shower Head with a WaterSense Model
One simple and fairly inexpensive home improvement can reduce your household water use by thousands of gallons per year. All you have to do is replace one older, inefficient shower head with a new WaterSense-labeled model. [caption id="attachment_311803" align="alignnone" width="500"] Showering accounts for nearly 17 percent of residential indoor water use, or about 30 gallons…
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Shell’s Guilty Silence
By Andy Rowell Yesterday was the eighteen anniversary of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa. The charismatic, pipe-smoking activist was murdered by the brutal military junta for his campaign against Shell in the Niger Delta. Although Shell has always vehemently denied any collusion in Saro-Wisa’s death, the company cannot escape the fact that it directly and indirectly…
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How Green is Your State? Find Out With This Interactive Map
There are many ways to assess the greenness of your home state. MPHOnline’s approach was to consider a state’s energy makeup, gasoline consumption per capita, greenhouse gas emissions, air and water quality, recycling efforts and availability of public transportation. Using this data from state energy, waste, transportation and environmental management agencies, MPHOnline created an interactive map to…
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Pandora’s Atomic Box Score
The first prophetic sign to follow CNN’s irrelevant Pandora’s Promise is this: the Dallas-based Luminant Power Company has cancelled two mammoth reactors. Pandora’s box score for atomic America 2013 is five announced early reactor closures, nine project cancellations and six ditched uprates. Today, 100 U.S. reactors operate where 1,000 were once promised. New orders are…