Tag: water
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President Obama Pledges $2 Billion+ for Drought-Stricken California and U.S. Climate Resilience Fund
By Brett Walton Acting on climate change and the growing toll it’s taking on U.S. agriculture, President Obama today will announce a $1.2 billion aid package for farmers, ranchers and communities in California and several more agricultural states pummeled by a series of devastating droughts and snowstorms in the past year. The President also will…
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Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill
Hear the latest on the 73 Olympic-size swimming pools worth of toxic sludge that Duke Energy dumped into North Carolina waterways starting Super Bowl Sunday in this Rachel Maddow interview with Michael Gerrard, professor of environmental law at Columbia University. Gerrard talks about a North Carolina federal investigation into this coal ash leak disaster. For more information…
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Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill
Hear the latest on the 73 Olympic-size swimming pools worth of toxic sludge that Duke Energy dumped into North Carolina waterways starting Super Bowl Sunday in this Rachel Maddow interview with Michael Gerrard, professor of environmental law at Columbia University. Gerrard talks about a North Carolina federal investigation into this coal ash leak disaster. For more information…
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Highly Contaminated Water Still Pouring Into Public Drinking Source on Dan River
[This is the fourth article in a four-part series. Read part one, read part two, read part three.] Waterkeeper Alliance and Yadkin Riverkeeper have obtained the results from a second round of water sampling on the Dan River in the wake of the third largest coal ash spill in recent U.S. history. Their results confirm that highly-contaminated…
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Communities Demand Environmental Review of Plans to Increase Transport of Tar Sands Oil by Rail and Barge
Citizens, local community leaders and environmental groups, representing thousands of area residents, mobilized to call on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to immediately order a full public safety and environmental review of the proposed expansion of an oil terminal in the Port of Albany today at the agency’s first information forum…