Tag: News
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Exxon to Face Criminal Charges for 50,000+ Gallon Fracking Wastewater Spill
By Emily Atkin Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy will have to face criminal charges for allegedly dumping tens of thousands of gallons of fracking waste at a Marcellus Shale drilling site in 2010, according to a Pennsylvania judge’s ruling on Thursday. Following a preliminary hearing, Magisterial District Judge James G. Carn decided that all…
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Potential Net-Metering Rollbacks Won’t Impact Solar Market in USA
Despite efforts from some U.S. states to re-evaluate their net-energy metering (NEM) policies, the impact of any potential changes on the U.S. photovoltaics (PV) industry is expected to be negligible in 2014, according to IHS Inc. “States including Arizona, Colorado […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Harvard and Brown Fail Moral Leadership Exam
By John Fullerton At a time when institutions of business and government continue to fail society, two of our leading academic institutions missed the opportunity to provide essential moral leadership on the most pressing challenge ever faced in the history of human civilization. Harvard President Drew Faust issued her October statement first: She and her colleagues on…
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Real Goods Solar, BlueWave Capital to Deploy Four Solar Projects in Massachusetts
RGS Energy, the commercial and utility division of Real Goods Solar, and BlueWave Capital, one of the leading developers of solar energy projects in Massachusetts, are to deploy four new solar farms in Massachusetts. RGS Energy will design, install, monitor and […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Documentary Exposes Wildlife Services’ Secret Killings
This month, Predator Defense launches a nationwide film screening tour of their documentary detailing the secretive killings of the Wildlife Services, a department of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which kills more than one million coyotes, bears, otters, foxes, birds and other animals each year without any requirement to disclose its activities to the public. In…