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Centrist Democratic bills lack leadership and action on climate crisis
With the Senate under Republican control, bills introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives do nothing but send a message. If Democratic centrists stop at half solutions, the climate crisis is o…
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New Expert Report Highlights Potential Value of Leaving TVA For Renewable Energy Alternative
A new expert analysis reports that a growing trend of lower market prices for solar and wind power could enable Memphis Light, Gas, and Water to achieve energy generating costs lower than were identif…
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Conservation Groups Expand Legal Challenge to Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
We’re still fighting Trump’s attempt to ram through this dirty fossil fuel project. This destructive pipeline should never get the chance to ruin clean water that’s crucial to people and endange…
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Trump considers propping up failing uranium industry, disregards harm to frontline and indigenous communities
Instead of working to support uranium profits, the Trump Administration should protect communities and safeguard our environment.
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Rep. Clarke calls for moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure, calls for end to Danskammer gas power plant
The proposed expansion of the Danskammer natural gas power plant would spew greenhouse gases and other toxic emissions into the air and would accelerate climate change, according to a flyer from Food…
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50,000 people tell insurance companies to drop Trans Mountain Pipeline
Representatives with Stand.earth today delivered a petition to Zurich’s Vancouver office signed by more than 50,000 pipeline opponents calling on Zurich and other insurance giants to drop the Trans…
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Trump Urged to Block Return of Super-polluting Supersonic Planes
We must hold the aviation industry accountable to the communities around the world that suffer from its outsized contribution to climate change
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Minor concessions won’t keep Memphis in the TVA
Friends of the Earth is urging the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide full details of a revised contract for its municipal utilities discussed at a meeting last week of their Board of Directors.
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Moderate Democrats climate proposal won’t stop climate catastrophe
The document calls for massive government investment in dangerous false solutions like nuclear and carbon capture and storage at a time when better, cheaper renewable options already exist.
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Insurance companies must drop Trans Mountain Pipeline, says global coalition
If the Trans Mountain Pipeline goes forward, there is no way for Canada to meet its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement. It’s clear Zurich needs to commit to not insure the pipeline expansio…