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Obama climate plan touts gas fracking as “transition fuel,” doubling down on...
By Steve Horn, June 25, 2013. Source: DeSmogBlog Today, President Barack Obama announced his administration’s “Climate Action Plan” for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the Oval Office at...
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Obama’s green agenda seen through Vermont eyes
Note: Will Bennington, featured in the article below, is Development and Campaigns Associate with Global Justice Ecology Project’s Vermont office. He is also a volunteer organizer with Rising Tide...
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Duke study links fracking to water contamination as EPA drops study on...
Note: More evidence that Obama’s Climate Action Plan is sure to take us over the climate and ecological cliff. As always, the devil is in the details (although they were also plenty apparent in the...
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API spent $22 million lobbying for Keystone XL; State Dept contractor ERM an...
Note from Steve Horn: Obama’s Climate Action Plan speech said Keystone XL won’t be approved ”if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” The root of the...
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Biomass energy: The bad apple in Obama’s renewable energy barrel
Note: Biomass is but one ‘bad apple’ in Obama’s Climate Action Plan. Others, including nuclear, fracked gas, forest carbon offsets, ‘clean coal’ (sic) and other ‘advanced fossil energy’ sources also...
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz relies on dubious coal tech for Obama climate...
By Sharon Kelly, June 28, 2013. Source: DeSmog Blog The key takeaway from President Obama’s major climate change announcement this week was his intent to batten down on coal. But if history is any...
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U.S. not waging ‘war on coal’: Energy Secretary Moniz
Note: More disappointing news after last weeks revelation that Obama’s climate strategy wold rely heavily on ‘clean coal’ and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Obama’s Climate Action Plan is not...
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EPA’s abandoned Wyoming fracking study one retreat of many
By Abrahm Lustgarten, July 3, 2013. Source: ProPublica When the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly retreated on its multimillion-dollar investigation into water contamination in a central Wyoming...
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Obama finds an unlikely ally in climate change battle: China
Note: Of course, by ‘unlikely ally’ we mean a crucial investor in new fracking wells, coal and gas exports, and dangerous, unproven false solutions like Carbon Capture and Storage. A joint climate...
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