Tag: united states
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Congressional Democrats Launch Climate Change Task Force
ECOWATCH — Building on President Obama’s inaugural commitment to address climate change, key congressional leaders announced a new Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change that will …
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MUST SEE VIDEO: Sen. Kerry Takes Strong Stand on Climate Change at Sec. of State Confirmation Hearing
ECOWATCH — Sen. John Kerry: I will be a passionate advocate on this not based on ideology but based on facts and science, and I hope to sit with all of you …
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200,000+ Comments Delivered to DOE Criticizing Economic Study on Natural Gas Exports
SIERRA CLUB — The coalition’s comments emphasize that liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports would lower wages and employment in the U.S., while enriching energy companies by billions of dollars, including …
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Fighting Unregulated Fracking in California
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY — California law applies safeguards and disclosure requirements to any underground injection carried out by the oil and gas industry, the lawsuit points out, and fracking clearly involves injection. Yet the state does not yet regulate or even monitor …
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Groups Initiate Federal Court Battle to Stop Illegal Coal Pollution
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE — Despite all this additional compelling evidence of ongoing contamination from the coal fired power plant in Asheville, government regulators still did very little to stop the pollution. Having pursued all other options the groups finally decided they had to …