Tag: Featured News
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Videos Feature Wes Wilson and Tony Ingraffea to Combat Fracking Industry’s Misinformation Campaign
Colorado is the midst of a David vs. Goliath fight, in which four municipalities will be voting this Tuesday on ballot initiatives to protect their communities from fracking. The gas and oil industry has already spent $600,000 on misleading ads and mailers to fight local residents’ rights to home rule. By next week it may well be more…
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Youth Call Out to President Obama to Protect Public Lands and Historical Artifacts
Groundwork Doña Ana County, a non-profit youth conservation and education group based in Las Cruces, NM, released a three-minute video this week highlighting its youth crew’s archaeological survey finds within the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. The video explores some of the hundreds of significant artifacts the team discovered and documented during surveys within the…
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Proof Positive It’s Time to Ban Plastic Bags
By Bill Hickman A recent exclusive report from the Associated Press (AP) highlighted the deficiencies with the California state law passed in 2006 that requires larger food retailers to recycle plastic bags. It’s been clear to us that plastic bag recycling does not work and this is more proof. While the plastics industry and manufacturers…
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Liquefied Natural Gas Facility Application Suspended for Insufficient Information
The U.S. Coast Guard just announced a 90-day hold on processing the proposed Liberty LNG Port Ambrose offshore deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility due to a lack of critically important information, several major application deficiencies and many unaddressed federal requirements. [caption id="attachment_310171" align="alignnone" width="500"] The U.S. Coast Guard cited more than 100 new “data…
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Groups Combat Misleading Fracking Ads on NPR
When members of Environmental Action became fed up with pro-fracking spots aired by the America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) on National Public Radio (NPR), they set up a mock website NPR-Dont-Even-Thinkaboutit.org to collect their own messages highlighting the dangers of fracking. Dozens of comments and voices were then edited into a segment intended to serve…