Tag: News
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National Campaign Supports 100 Grassroots Anti-Fracking Activists
As the national movement to ban fracking picks up steam, MoveOn.org Civic Action is announcing a new #FrackingFighter initiative to support 100 grassroots activists who are working to ban fracking in their local communities. MoveOn is awarding a total of $50,000 to the Fracking Fighters, along with materials, training and strategic support. The initiative seeks to slow…
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300,000 West Virginians Told Not to Drink Water After Coal Chemical Spill, 600+ Sick
Do you take sugar in your morning coffee? How about 4-methylcyclohexane methanol? A large spill of a chemicals used to remove impurities from coal occurred Thursday in Charleston, WV, contaminating the Elk River less than a mile upstream of the intake for the state’s largest drinking water treatment plant. As many as 300,000 West Virginia…
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Japanese Officials to Recreate Fukushima Meltdown for Analysis
It’s been almost three years since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, but the Japan Atomic Energy Agency is still trying to figure out what went wrong. The agency’s latest effort will be to recreate the meltdown in a controlled setting in order to analyze the event and better prepare for future incidents. According to The Yomiuri Shimbun,…
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Emperor Penguins Move Breeding Grounds Due to Diminishing Antarctic Sea Ice
Confronted with the loss of sea ice in some parts of Antarctica, four colonies of emperor penguins have come up with an innovative breeding strategy to adapt to their changing environment. [caption id="attachment_317538" align="alignnone" width="500"] Emperor penguins are the largest penguin species on Earth and are found only in Antarctica. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] Using satellite images,…
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California Vineyards Installing 1.13-MW Solar PV System
Sundale Vineyards, a premium grower of a dozen varieties of table grapes announced the ground-breaking of its 1.13-MW solar photovoltaic system. Cenergy Power, a top commercial solar integrator in California, has been tasked with the engineering and installation of the […] — Solar Builder magazine