Tag: Featured News
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Victory for Marine Life as Deadly Driftnet Proposal Is Voted Down
The Pacific Fishery Management Council—the 14 member voting body tasked with managing fisheries three to 200 miles off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington—decided yesterday to cease consideration of a proposal to expand the use of deadly drift gillnets off California and instead requested extension of emergency regulations that went into effect last year…
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Chris Hayes Debunks Myth that Approving Keystone XL and Fracking More Will Weaken Russia in Ukraine Crisis
By Denise Robbins MSNBC host Chris Hayes blasted the myth that expanding unconventional energy sources in the U.S. will weaken Russia, an “absurd” claim that has been perpetuated by conservative media to pin the security crisis in Ukraine on President Barack Obama. Conservative media are manipulating the Ukraine crisis to push a “drill, baby, drill”…
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Dirty Energy Money Behind the Push to Frack California
A satirical online video featuring Gov. Brown (D-CA) was released yesterday by Oil Change International, highlighting the Governor’s penchant for fracking and dirty energy campaign donations. The video is the latest from the Big Oil Brown campaign effort which is pushing for a ban on fracking in California. The video parody, Frack Water, portrays a Gov. Brown look-alike outside a southern…
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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: ‘I Was Wrong,’ Don’t Build Keystone XL Pipeline
By Mark Heffinger After coming to Nebraska to meet with farmers and ranchers facing eminent domain seizure of their land for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, and listening to the voices of Native Americans, environmental experts and pipeline fighters across the country, MSNBC host Ed Schultz of The Ed Show announced on his March 5 show…
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Interactive Tool Makes Global CO2 Emissions Data Smartphone Accessible
By Johannes Friedrich “Big data” has never been bigger. New tools—such as satellites, cloud computing and other technological upgrades—are fueling a “data revolution,” allowing researchers to analyze the world in ways they’ve never been able to before. [caption id="attachment_324595" align="alignnone" width="500"] Graphic courtesy of Mom’s Clean Air Force[/caption] But while compiling and analyzing this data…