Tag: nebraska
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Opponents Rally Against Keystone XL Pipeline at State Department Hearing
BOLD NEBRASKA / “ALL RISK, NO REWARD” COALITION / SIERRA CLUB — Landowners, community leaders, experts and activists gathered in Grand Island, NE with a clear message to State Department on the Keystone XL pipeline: this pipeline is too risky for American families because of its threats to water, land and climate …
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Coalition Launches Keystone XL ‘All Risk, No Reward’ TV Ad
ALL RISK, NO REWARD COALITION — The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will run through America, but does not benefit America. Based on the State Department’s Environmental Impact Statement, the pipeline will create only 35 permanent jobs. It would also put American communities at …
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Hold Your Senators Accountable on Their Dirty Oil Vote
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — While the vote is meaningless and the final decision on the pipeline remains with President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, these senators need to be held accountable for their irresponsible misuse of the federal budget process to approve Big Oil’s dirty energy projects …
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Environmental Justice and the Keystone XL Pipeline
INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — As is evident in the SEIS, environmental racism is rearing its ugly head once again. These systems of colonial domination and the trampling of Aboriginal treaty rights, continues …
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Green Remake Gives Nebraska A LEED Landmark
The Union Pacific Center in downtown Omaha has taken LEED Silver for Existing Buildings certification, making it the largest green building in Nebraska.