Tag: News
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PSEG Acquires Two Solar Power Plants from Canadian Solar
Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world’s largest solar power companies and PSEG announced that Canadian Solar’s subsidiary, CSI Holdco LLC sold two utility-scale solar power plants totaling 4.4 MWdc (3 MWac) to PSEG subsidiary, PSEG Solar Source. The plants have a […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Climate Change Roulette and Water Scarcity
By Suzanne York A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that climate change is likely to put 40 percent more people worldwide at risk of absolute water scarcity, due to changes in rainfall and evaporation. Unsurprisingly, the study noted that “Expected future…
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Good News on Christmas Day for Arctic 30
The final chapter in the legal ordeal of the Arctic 30 began today as the group was asked to attend a meeting at Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee, where the criminal case against them is being dropped en masse. They will then have one more hurdle—securing exit visas in their passports—before the non-Russians are free to leave…
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Inspector General Finds EPA Justified in Intervening to Protect Drinking Water from Fracking
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General found EPA Region 6 was justified in legally intervening to protect Parker County, TX residents’ drinking water from drilling impacts. At Sen. Inhofe’s (R-OK) request, the Inspector General investigated to determine if Region 6’s intervention against Range Resources was due to political influence by the Obama administration. [caption…
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Ecuadorians 40+ Year Fight Against Chevron Continues Into 2014
“This is the Court of Chancery … which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart …” — Charles Dickens, Bleak House The court proceedings in the case of the 21st century, between multinational oil giant…