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Diablo Canyon: Secret document details federal safety inspectors alarm over plants vulnerability to earthquakes
Agency expert says reactors must be shut until proven safe WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an explosive document kept secret for a year, a former federal inspector charges that the Diablo Canyon nuclear power…
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For oil and wind, offshore is promised land and muddled policy
Extending the nation’s oil and gas boom and wind power’s technology to coastal waters makes logical sense. But it highlights the contradiction between President Obama’s ‘all-of…
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Gulf of Mexico lease draws advocacy fire
U.S. addicted to fossil fuels, Friends of the Earth says. Friends of the Earth says it has concerns over latest auction for energy assets in the Gulf of Mexico. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) — The…
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Revolving doors at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Today, Friends of the Earth and 33 of our allies wrote to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission insisting that they postpone two important votes until after Commissioner William Magwood leaves for his ne…
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34 groups urge NRC to postpone key votes in order to avoid “taint” of Magwood conflict of interest
Latest step follows announced August 31 departure of “fatally compromised” Magwood on heels of June and July letters urging him to step down for violations of ethics laws in seeking and landing a…
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Obama administration pushes offshore drilling
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sold 434,000 acres for oil and gas development in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Leases were awarded to 14 companies for approximatel…
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Greens demand info on KXL study changes
Friends of the Earth has hit the State Department with a new Freedom of Information Act request in an escalating clash over the agency’s studies of the Keystone XL pipeline. GREENS DEMAND INFO ON…
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Greens demand State hand over Keystone docs
An environmental group is demanding the State Department fork over all of its communications over changes that were made to the final Keystone XL pipeline environmental impact review. Friends of the E…
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Keystone XL: Friends of the Earth files for release of State Department records surrounding EIS revisions
FOIA request underscores lingering questions about integrity of KXL review process WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding the expedited release…
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The Bureau of Coal Leasing & Exports
The U.S may be home to the largest recoverable coal reserves in the world, but if the federal government follows through with plans to extract them at home and send them overseas, it will undermine Pr…