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Canada Gas Pipeline Protests Yield Rail Shutdown, Arrests

February 14, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Canada Gas Pipeline Protests Yield Rail Shutdown, Arrests

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, February 14, 2020 (ENS) – Forty indigenous land and water protectors and non-indigenous activists were arrested in British Columbia and across Canada on Monday, [...]

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Rare Earth Elements Focus of U.S.-Australia Agreement

November 18, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Rare Earth Elements Focus of U.S.-Australia Agreement

 

WASHINGTON, DC, November 18, 2019 (ENS) – Officials from the United States and Australia today signed a memorandum of understanding pledging cooperation to secure a steady supply of [...]

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Science in Action: Arctic Residents Embrace Renewables

November 12, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Science in Action: Arctic Residents Embrace Renewables

 

HANOVER, New Hampshire, November 12, 2019 (ENS) – Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has accepted an invitation to partner with Qaanaaq, an Arctic hunting and fishing [...]

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Utilities Ask Court to Reinstate Obama’s Clean Power Plan

September 16, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Utilities Ask Court to Reinstate Obama’s Clean Power Plan

 

NEW YORK, New York, September 16, 2019 (ENS) – A coalition of public and private electric utilities have filed a petition in the District of Columbia Circuit Court [...]

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Comparing America’s Most Energy-Efficient Cities

August 6, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Comparing America’s Most Energy-Efficient Cities

 

WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2019 (ENS) – Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC top the latest energy-efficiency scorecard from the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient [...]

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Trudeau Greenlights Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

June 18, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Trudeau Greenlights Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

 

OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, June 18, 2019 (ENS) – Canada’s federal cabinet has approved the twinning of the existing Trans Mountain pipeline that will carry diluted bitumen from the [...]

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Governments Cue Hydrogen for Global Clean Energy Role

June 2, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Governments Cue Hydrogen for Global Clean Energy Role

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, June 1, 2019 (ENS) – Hydrogen is on the move. At the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting Friday in Vancouver, governments announced a new international [...]

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Indigenous Pipeline Protest Disrupts Trudeau Fundraiser

May 22, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Indigenous Pipeline Protest Disrupts Trudeau Fundraiser

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, May 22, 2019 (ENS) – An Indigenous leader demanding that cancellation of the Trans Mountain pipeline interrupted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his [...]

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Oregon Governor Signs Offshore Drilling Ban into Law

March 27, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Oregon Governor Signs Offshore Drilling Ban into Law

 

SALEM, Oregon, March 27, 2019 (ENS) – Oregon Governor Kate Brown, a Democrat, today signed a bill into law that creates a new line of defense against offshore [...]

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ExxonMobil Fined $616,000 for Fire That Killed Two

March 6, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on ExxonMobil Fined $616,000 for Fire That Killed Two

 

WASHINGTON, DC, March 6, 2019 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency have settled with ExxonMobil Oil Corporation to resolve federal Clean Air [...]

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EU Invests €10 Billion in Lowering Carbon Dioxide

February 27, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on EU Invests €10 Billion in Lowering Carbon Dioxide

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, February 27, 2019 (ENS) – The European Commission Tuesday introduced The Innovation Fund, an investment program worth over €10 billion for low-carbon technologies in energy intensive [...]

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1,000+ Institutions Divest From Fossil Fuels

December 13, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on 1,000+ Institutions Divest From Fossil Fuels

 

KATOWICE, Poland, December 13, 2018 (ENS) – Over 1,000 institutions with managed investments worth US$$8 trillion have committed to divest from fossil fuel companies because they are driving [...]

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Federal Judge Bans Fracking Off California Coast

November 12, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Federal Judge Bans Fracking Off California Coast

 

LOS ANGELES, California, November 12, 2018 (ENS) – Conservation and Native American groups have won their fracking lawsuit against the Trump administration. A federal court has ordered the [...]

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Judge Blocks Trump’s Approval of Keystone XL Pipeline

November 9, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Judge Blocks Trump’s Approval of Keystone XL Pipeline

 

GREAT FALLS, Montana, November 9, 2018 (ENS) – A federal judge in Montana Thursday overturned the Trump Administration’s approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline and issued an injunction [...]

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Trump Plans to Export Fossil Fuels From Military Bases

October 19, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Plans to Export Fossil Fuels From Military Bases

 

WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2018 (ENS) – Blurring the line between the public and private sectors, the Trump administration is pondering the use of West Coast military bases [...]

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European Clean Energy Innovators to Get €100 Million

October 19, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on European Clean Energy Innovators to Get €100 Million

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 19, 2018 (ENS) – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates knows that €100 million can fund a lot of climate-friendly, clean energy research by European innovators, so [...]

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Trump Removes Oil Train Safety Brake Requirement

September 26, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Removes Oil Train Safety Brake Requirement

 

WASHINGTON, DC, September 25, 2018 (ENS) – Cost won out over safety, as the Trump administration Monday repealed an oil train regulation regarding the type of brakes the [...]

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Tree Sitters Protest Mountain Valley Gas Pipeline

September 5, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Tree Sitters Protest Mountain Valley Gas Pipeline

 

ELLISTON, Virginia, September 5, 2018 (ENS) – Early Wednesday morning, two new tree sits were erected in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Montgomery County, Virginia. [...]

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The New Oil Cartel Threatening OPEC

July 5, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on The New Oil Cartel Threatening OPEC

 

By Irina Slav

NEW DELHI, India, July 5, 2018 (ENS) – When reports emerged that India and China are in talks about forming an oil buyers’ club, the [...]

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Nuclear Fusion Reactor in France 55 Percent Complete

July 3, 2018 News Editor Comments Off on Nuclear Fusion Reactor in France 55 Percent Complete

 

SAINT PAUL-LEZ-DURANCE, France, July 3, 2018 (ENS) – There may be lingering disagreements among China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States, but [...]

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