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EPA takes historic climate action, but its only a down payment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules to reduce carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, under the Clean Air Act. Electric power plants produce…
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Obama unveils sweeping cuts to power plant emissions: ‘We have to get going’
Six years after first promising to “roll back the spectre of a warming planet”, Barack Obama finally committed the US to unprecedented action against climate change on Monday, with sweeping new…
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How are environmentalists reacting to Obamas Clean Power Plan?
Now that President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has been finalized, environmentalists are practically dancing in the streets. Their public statements range in tone from celebratory to exultant. But s…
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TPP trade negotiations in Maui fail
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and the trade ministers of other Pacific Rim countries meeting in Maui failed to reach agreement on the Trans Pacific Partnership trad…
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Whats Really Inside The Senates New Bill To Modernize The Energy System
On Thursday afternoon, the Senate’s energy committee sent the first wide-ranging energy bill in over six years to the senate floor, but not before weighing it down with an array of provisions that e…
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Senate committee omits renewables from energy package
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s final mark-up of the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 includes five titles: efficiency, infrastructure, supply, accoun…
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Hawai’i activists break world record for conch shell blow, reverberating a global kahea (call) to stop the TPP
KA‘ANAPALI, MAUI — In a galvanizing call-to-action, hundreds gathered yesterday outside of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to put out a global kahea (call) to stop the corporat…
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Clean water advocates win court victory to tighten water discharge limits for BP oil refinery
Ruling seen as a precedent for other facilities throughout the state OLYMPIA, WA— On Tuesday, July 28, the Court of Appeals for the State of Washington published its opinion on an appeal challengin…
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Shell continues Arctic invasion amidst profit announcement, merger talk
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Shell is expected to release its Q2 profits report tomorrow, amidst efforts to drill in the American Arctic Ocean and plans for a merger with liquefied natural gas giant BG Group. F…
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The federal coal program must end or seriously reform
Earlier this year, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for “an honest and open conversation about modernizing the federal government’s coal program.” Today I am speaking at the Washing…