Tag: water
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World’s Largest Coal Company Leaves Chinese Community Without Water
For ten years, the Chinese state-run organization Shenhua Group, the world’s biggest coal producer by volume, has sucked this land dry, exploiting water resources at a shocking scale from …
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EPA Reversal Protects Pristine Yellowstone Waters
Some of Greater Yellowstone’s most pristine waters received good news yesterday when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced …
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Environmental Leaders Expose How the Coal Industry Poisons Our Water
Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and other environmental leaders came together in Charlotte, NC, to pull the cloak of invisibility off of toxic water pollution from coal-fired power plants …
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Natural Gas Rig Fire in the Gulf, Another Wakeup Call
Late last night, a natural gas drilling rig known as Hercules 265 exploded. The rig has now partially collapsed and is burning out of control, too dangerous for firefighters …
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Proposed Budget Cuts Target the Great Lakes
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies introduced legislation today to cut funding for the Fiscal Year 2014 Interior and Environment Appropriations budget by 18 percent …