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Dems capitulate on Keystone XL while activists organize in Texas and Oklahoma
The dog days of summer haven’t done much to slow down TransCanada’s propulsion towards construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The Canadian oil corporation last week unveiled its �…
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Obama’s EPA forced to consider effects of using food for fuel
Since my last post on the stupidity of using food for fuel, almost 300 members of Congress, state governors, organizations and private citizens have written to Environmental Protection Agency Administ…
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Protest Trans Pacific trade negotiations in Leesburg Virginia
For 10 days, the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a colossal, job-destroying free trade agreement — will be negotiated in secret in Leesburg, Virginia. This massive trade agreement would threat…
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Arctic sea ice at lowest levels in history
This week the extent of Arctic sea ice is at an unprecedented historic low, the smallest amount of ice cover since satellite measurement began in 1979. According to scientists, dramatic summer sea ice…
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Court upholds harmful EPA decision to approve higher ethanol blend for motor fuel
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a partial waiver for E15 — a 15 percent ethanol fuel blen…
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Tar Sands Blockade flies into action as ground breaks on southern leg of Keystone XL
Today, Tar Sands Blockade kicked off a sustained, direct action campaign to stop the construction of the southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline through Oklahoma and Texas. The grassroots organiz…
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State Department selects new contractor for Keystone XL impacts study
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The State Department recently announced on its website that it has chosen a new third-party contractor to conduct the next round of review for TransCanada’s controversi…
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Santa Monica Council urges probe of San Onofre reactors
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Last night, the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously to urge the state to fully investigate the costs and reliability of the crippled San Onofre Nuclear Genera…
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U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts plummeting corn yields due to U.S. drought
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the first estimates to take into account the extreme heat and droughts that have ravaged the country this summer, the Department of Agriculture predicted this morning that U.S…
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Laguna Beach Council votes unanimously to urge state investigation of San Onofre costs
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. – On Tuesday the Laguna Beach City Council unanimously approved a resolution urging a state investigation that could block Southern California Edison from passing on to consumer…