Tag: News
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NASA: Earth Could Warm 20 Percent More Than Earlier Estimates
NASA says we should expect the planet to become even warmer than researchers thought in the past. According to new research, Drew Shindell, a climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, says the planet could become 20 percent warmer than previous estimates. The image included in a briefing on the study shows temperature-increase estimates…
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Breaking: Duke Energy Caught Dumping Wastewater from Coal Ash Lagoon Into Local Watershed
Waterkeeper Alliance released aerial surveillance photos taken from a fixed-wing aircraft last week showing Duke Energy workers pumping wastewater from two of Duke Energy’s toxic coal ash lagoons into a canal that drains into the Cape Fear River. [blackoutgallery id=”326556″] The revelation comes less than two months after the Dan River disaster, where at least 30,000 tons…
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Report Details How Extreme Energy Extraction Threatens the Great Lakes
As governments approve tar sands oil and fracking projects around the Great Lakes, the Council of Canadians is warning that these extreme energy projects are putting the Great Lakes in peril. Council of Canadians Chairperson Maude Barlow outlines the web of pipelines, refineries and oil shipments that threaten the Lakes in her new report released…
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Hidden Camera Reveals Dumping of Toxic Coal Ash Into Ohio River
Time-lapse photography from a camera strapped to a tree has captured a year’s worth of images proving that dangerous coal ash wastewater from a plant owned by the utility company Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) is pouring unabated into the Ohio River. This photographic evidence, along with Google Earth satellite images from 1993 to present,…
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6 Goals a Worldwide Climate Change Agreement Should Achieve
By Jennifer Morgan The latest round of U.N. climate talks came to a close in Bonn, Germany last week, with negotiators agreeing to start drafting the international climate agreement set to be finalized in 2015. As negotiators look towards the next United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in June, they’re faced with a key question:…