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End Polluter Welfare Bill Would Stop Coal, Oil, Gas Subsidies

May 10, 2012 ENS Comments Off on End Polluter Welfare Bill Would Stop Coal, Oil, Gas Subsidies

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 10, 2012 (ENS) – Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent, and Congressmen Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, today introduced a legislation to end billions of [...]

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First Solar Project on U.S. Public Lands Starts Generating

May 8, 2012 ENS Comments Off on First Solar Project on U.S. Public Lands Starts Generating

 

PRIMM, Nevada, May 8, 2012 (ENS) – The first utility-scale solar energy facility on U.S. public lands started delivering power on Monday with the flip of a switch [...]

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Vermont Will Be First U.S. State to Ban Fracking

May 8, 2012 ENS Comments Off on Vermont Will Be First U.S. State to Ban Fracking

 

MONTPELIER, Vermont, May 8, 2012 (ENS) – Vermont is about to become the first U.S. state to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas.

The Vermont House [...]

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Thousands of Protesters Fail to Block India’s Nuclear Power Plant

March 21, 2012 ENS Comments Off on Thousands of Protesters Fail to Block India’s Nuclear Power Plant

 

IDINTHAKARAI, Tamil Nadu, India, March 21, 2012 (ENS) – Police Monday arrested 190 demonstrators objecting to the start of work at the stalled Kudankulam nuclear power plant in [...]

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Environmental Exemptions for 49 Gulf Drilling Projects Challenged in Court

May 30, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Environmental Exemptions for 49 Gulf Drilling Projects Challenged in Court

 

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 29, 2010 (ENS) – The Center for Biological Diversity Thursday filed a lawsuit against Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Minerals Management Service to [...]

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Yucca Mountain’s Dead. Next? Expert Panel Examines Nuclear Waste Options

January 29, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Yucca Mountain’s Dead. Next? Expert Panel Examines Nuclear Waste Options

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 29, 2010 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy announced today the formation of a blue ribbon commission to evaluate policy options for a safe, [...]

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Clean Energy Jobs Top Priority in Obama’s State of the Union Address

January 28, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Clean Energy Jobs Top Priority in Obama’s State of the Union Address

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 27, 2010 (ENS) – Clean energy jobs and economic recovery took center stage in President Barack Obama’s second State of the Union address tonight before [...]

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Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Lands Comes Under Intensive Scrutiny

January 28, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Lands Comes Under Intensive Scrutiny

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2010 (ENS) – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced changes to the federal onshore oil and gas leasing program that he says will improve [...]

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Nuclear Reactors of Unproven Design Planned for California’s Central Valley

January 28, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Nuclear Reactors of Unproven Design Planned for California’s Central Valley

 

FRESNO, California, January 6, 2010 (ENS) – At least one nuclear reactor is being planned for California’s agricultural Central Valley but it is already running into grassroots opposition and [...]

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Six States Chosen for Building Efficiency Retrofit Academy

January 28, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Six States Chosen for Building Efficiency Retrofit Academy

WASHINGTON, DC, January 5, 2010 (ENS) – To help states develop strategies that will improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings and reduce costs and emissions, the National Governors [...]

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Nantucket Eligiblity for Historic Register Pushes Cape Wind Decision

January 28, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Nantucket Eligiblity for Historic Register Pushes Cape Wind Decision

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 4, 2010 (ENS) – The National Park Service today announced the decision by its Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places that Nantucket Sound [...]

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Kansas’ Largest Utility Settles Clean Air Lawsuit With $500 Million

January 25, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Kansas’ Largest Utility Settles Clean Air Lawsuit With $500 Million

 

TOPEKA, Kansas, January 25, 2010 (ENS) – Westar Energy today settled an air pollution lawsuit brought by the federal government by agreeing to spend at least $500 million [...]

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Thirst for Oil Imperils South America’s Most Biodiverse Wilderness

January 20, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Thirst for Oil Imperils South America’s Most Biodiverse Wilderness

 

QUITO, Ecuador, January 19, 2010 (ENS) – Yasuní National Park, located in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, is the most biodiverse area in all of South America, [...]

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Algae Research Expected to Yield Green Jet Fuel, Diesel, Gas

January 19, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Algae Research Expected to Yield Green Jet Fuel, Diesel, Gas

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2010 (ENS) – To create green aviation fuels, diesel, and gasoline that can be transported and sold using existing fueling infrastructure, the Obama administration [...]

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Runners for Rainforest Ejected From Chevron Houston Marathon Expo

January 16, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Runners for Rainforest Ejected From Chevron Houston Marathon Expo

 

HOUSTON, Texas, January 15, 2010 (ENS) – A Rainforest Action Network team of runners that is openly critical of Chevron’s human rights record in Ecuador was kicked out [...]

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Sunflower Electric Reapplies for Coal-Fired Power Plant Expansion

January 15, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Sunflower Electric Reapplies for Coal-Fired Power Plant Expansion

 

TOPEKA, Kansas, January 14, 2010 (ENS) – A southwest Kansas electric cooperative Wednesday filed a revised permit application for construction of a controversial 895 megawatt coal-fired electrical generating [...]

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Landfill Methane Awards: From Greenhouse Gas to Energy Source

January 14, 2010 ENS Comments Off on Landfill Methane Awards: From Greenhouse Gas to Energy Source

 

BALTIMORE, Maryland, January 13, 2010 (ENS) – Eight landfill methane capture projects were recognized by the U.S. EPA Tuesday for innovation in generating renewable energy and reducing greenhouse [...]

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Three Climate Polls: Do You ‘Believe In’ Warming

December 24, 2009 ENS Comments Off on Three Climate Polls: Do You ‘Believe In’ Warming
 

WASHINGTON, DC, December 24, 2009 (ENS) – More than 80 percent of Americans surveyed in a new public opinion poll support action to limit the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide [...]

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Duke Energy Will Spend $93 Million to Settle Clean Air Violations

December 23, 2009 ENS Comments Off on Duke Energy Will Spend $93 Million to Settle Clean Air Violations

 

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, December 23, 2009 (ENS) – A $93 million court settlement requiring Duke Energy, one of the America’s largest electric power companies, to eliminate sulfur dioxide emissions [...]

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Yasuni Park Trust Fund Will Keep Ecuador’s Oil Underground

December 21, 2009 ENS Comments Off on Yasuni Park Trust Fund Will Keep Ecuador’s Oil Underground
 

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 21, 2009 (ENS) – Ecuador’s initiative to protect the climate and the rainforest of Yasuni National Park by leaving its largest oil reserve in the ground [...]

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