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100+ Scientists and Economists Urge President Obama and Secretary Kerry to Reject Keystone XL
More than 100 leading scientists and economists are calling on the Obama Administration to deny the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline because it will trigger massive development of the world’s dirtiest oil, and escalate climate change. They include Nobel Prize winners in physics and economics, and lead authors of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel…
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How an Unprecedented Nuclear Subsidy Deal Could Kill UK Renewables
The United Kingdom’s plans to build heavily subsidized nuclear power stations have come under withering attack from a coalition of members of Parliament, academics, energy industry experts and environmental groups. Evidence has poured into the European Commission, which is investigating whether the deal with the giant French nuclear company EDF breaks EU competition rules. The…
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Tech Industry can Ignite a Clean Energy Revolution
Connecting people across continents. Delivering breaking news. Enabling government transparency. Facilitating social revolutions. Stopping global warming? The Internet is capable of doing so much, but perhaps the idea that it can help rescue the planet from runaway global warming comes as a surprise to you. Every time we post a Facebook status to our friends,…
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Group Launches TV Ad Promoting Ballot Measure for Local Control Over Fracking
Local Control Colorado launched a 30 second TV ad today promoting the proposed ballot measure that would give citizens the ability to ban fracking in their communities. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEYdySnfbNk[/embed] The TV ad asks, “Would you want to live here? Want your kids to play here? Next to a fracking rig? Fracking can occur just 501 feet from…
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National Consortium Eyes 20,000 Solar School Installations by 2020
A group you may have never heard of before has big plans for our education system. They won’t have anything to do with curriculum, but their ideas will keep renewable power flowing at schools across the country for years to come. The three-day National Science Teachers Association conference began Thursday with the announcement of a newly…