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EPA includes carbon tax in final power plant rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants, under the Clean Air Act. The final rule has explicitly allow…
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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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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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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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Senate agrees to reauthorize Ex-Im as part of the transportation bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night the Senate voted 64 – 29 to attach Senator Mark Kirk’s (Ill.) amendment to the transportation bill to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States.�…
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Groups demand rejection of anti-climate provision in Customs Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Congress prepares to go to conference to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015, a coalition of enviro…
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Obama administration manipulates human rights report to fast track Malaysias participation in TPP trade deal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Obama administration has removed Malaysia from the State Department’s list of flagrant violators of human rights related to human trafficking, in order for Congress to give…