Tag: News
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Plastic Bag Bans Spread Across U.S.
Los Angeles rang in the 2014 New Year with a ban on the distribution of plastic bags at the checkout counter of big retailers, making it the largest of the 132 cities and counties around the U.S. with anti-plastic bag legislation. And a movement that gained momentum in California is going national. More than 20…
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Cowboys and Indians Launch 5-Day Keystone XL Protest on National Mall
Earlier this year, the groups behind the Reject and Protect campaign and their supporters sent 2 million anti-Keystone XL comments to the Obama Administration in just 30 days. Now, they’re following that up by in-person resistance to the massive pipeline. Through Sunday, the Cowboy Indian Alliance is camping out at Washington D.C.’s National Mall as an official protest…
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Riding Together Against Keystone XL
To politicians in Washington, the Keystone XL pipeline is an abstraction: just another political football to hurl back and forth across partisan lines. But along the pipeline’s proposed route, Keystone XL is a clear and present danger, threatening a people’s traditional way of life—not to mention the health and safety of their communities. [caption id=”attachment_331504″…
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This Year’s Intersolar North America Strengthens Focus on Energy Storage
Intersolar North America , the most attended industry exhibition and conference in North America for solar professionals to exchange information and develop business opportunities, is expanding its focus on energy storage for the 2014 event. Intersolar North America exhibition will feature a host of energy storage companies showcasing their latest innovations,Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Anti-Keystone XL Groups Discuss Delayed Decision on MSNBC
The longer the Keystone XL decision is delayed, the more attention it gets. The Obama Administration began Easter weekend by announcing that a decision had been postponed indefinitely. The fallout from that announcement trickled into the cable TV talk-show cycle on Monday and Tuesday. Bold Nebraska founder Jane Kleeb took to MSNBC’s Reid Report to discuss…