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US Loans Fueled Insider Deal, Failed Power Plan in Liberia
The auburn-red soil and lush green vegetation lured the foreign investors to Liberia’s third-largest city with visions of environmental gold. They formed a company, Buchanan Renewables, and set…
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Obama administration gifts Outer Continental Shelf to oil and gas interests
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today released the draft 2017-2022 program for new oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf. The current five-year program, set t…
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Progressive coalition encourages EPA to mandate strong GHG reductions from power plants by 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 28 local, state and national public interest groups from the Climate Reality Check network submitted a letter to Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe for the Office of Air and Ra…
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The State of the Union and cognitive dissonance
In thinking through President Obama’s sixth and penultimate State of the Union address, I’ll admit to having wildly mixed thoughts and emotions. Generally, I thought this was one of his best State…
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President takes important climate step in Alaska
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Obama announced a Department of the Interior plan to protect Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in a video released yesterday. Outlining the plan, the presi…
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28,000 comments submitted on Whatcom oil dock marked ‘spam’
About 28,000 public comments submitted by environmentalists about a controversial oil-shipping dock in Whatcom County went missing after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ email system marked the…
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A better way: What we would’ve liked to hear in the State of the Union
In Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Obama set an aggressive tone on a number of key progressive issues, from education to equal pay. And while his speech featured strong points…
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Senate votes to dismiss climate science
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Senate voted 56 to 42 to table an amendment offered by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on climate science. If approved, the amendment would have been attached to…
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Ahead of Super Bowl XLIX, GMO Inside Urges Sabra, Official Hummus of NFL, to Pass on GMOs
Green America’s GMO Inside campaign announced on Thursday a major new push to get Sabra, the world’s largest manufacturer of hummus, to drop genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from its…
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Obama administration urged to fast-track airplane carbon cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six national environmental organizations today called on the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration to move quickly to set emission standards to c…