Tag: Coal Exports
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U.S. Coal Exports Causing Deaths in Europe
As U.S. decision makers weigh the costs and benefits of dramatically increasing this deadly export it’s worth asking ourselves is this an export we can justify? Thanks to this new report from Greenpeace we can conclusively give you 2,000 reasons it’s not.
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New Film Exposes Climate Threats of Powder River Basin Coal Mining and Exports
A Pacific Northwest coal project is threatening the global environment on a scale greater than the Keystone Pipeline, but most people have never heard of it. Momenta, a documentary collaboration between …
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Bill McKibben Inspires Australia to ‘Do The Math’ for Climate Action
If ticket sales, packed seats and a rapt audience are anything to go by, Bill McKibben’s first show in Australia was a roaring success …
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Taking Big Coal to Court
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, where coal dust has been identified in and along multiple waterways. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, a co-founder of the Leadership Alliance Against Coal comprised …
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Sit In Continues Demanding a Moratorium on Fracking in Illinois
From water contamination, air pollution to earthquakes in one of the nation’s most deadly seismic zones—conferring with a U.S. Geological Survey, there is already a 90 percent chance that a magnitude six or seven earthquake will occur in the New Madrid seismic area within the next fifty years—the unleashed fracking rush promises to not only…