Tag: Featured News
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Keystone XL Southern Leg Now Being Injected With Oil
By Steve Horn Keystone XL’s southern half is one step closer to opening for business. TransCanada announced that “on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, the company began to inject oil into the Gulf Coast Project pipeline as it moves closer to the start of commercial service.” [caption id="attachment_315045" align="alignnone" width="500"] The line fill comes weeks after…
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Obama’s New Special Adviser Is Outspoken Critic of Keystone XL
By John H. Cushman, Jr. By asking John Podesta to come to the White House as a special counselor at a time of turmoil and tough choices, President Obama has created an unusually close tie to an outspoken critic of the Keystone XL pipeline and the Canadian tar sands it would carry. Podesta is a…
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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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Rising Sea Levels Threaten 233 Endangered Species
Sea-level rise driven by climate change poses a deadly threat to 233 federally protected animal and plant species in 23 coastal states, according to a new scientific report from the Center for Biological Diversity, and U.S. wildlife protection agencies are not doing enough to protect at-risk species. In a letter to the two wildlife agencies,…
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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.…