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• BP Whiting Consent Decree: handing Big Oil the tab for tar sands pollution

  
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  Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago It’s official:  Big Oil has now learned what happens when you try to play fast and loose with the air pollution laws protecting the public to try to save a few bucks.  Today, US EPA together with NRDC and its coalition partners lodged an enforcement consent ...
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• On refusing to be rounded out of existence

  
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  This guest post comes from James Wells who eloquently and passionately is outlining the detrimental implications of short-term thinking embrace of coal exports.The phrase, arriving in the middle of a deeply technical presentation, stood out for everything it said in just one sentence.“They’re just going to be ...
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• Fighting for home: A discussion with Clarice Friloux of United Houma Nation

  
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  Two years after the BP disaster, the United Houma Nations outreach coordinator talks about living next to the oil industry and the future she envisions for her tribe and her home. read more
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• NRC Has Not Applied Major Lessons Learned From Fukushima Disaster: Spent Fuel Vulnerability To Extreme Weather Events

  
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  Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb stargazer12.wordpress.com More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima... There are 31 G.E. Mark I and Mark II boiling water reactors (BRWs) in the U.S., the type used at Fukushima. All of these reactors, which comprise just under ...
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• Montana, full of contrasts: the northwest is at the center of an energy crossroads

  
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  Noah Long, Energy Program Attorney, San Francisco This past weekend I was at the Northwest Energy Coalition ’s Spring meeting in Kalispell, Montana.  I flew in a day early and did a high-water float down 16 miles of the Madison River outside of Bozeman with my colleague, Matt Skoglund .  He ...
  6 days ago

• BREAKING NEWS: SOUTH BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL NIXES F-35!

  
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  Per Juliet Buck, blogger and activist (via Facebook): "South Burlington City Council just voted AGAINST basing the F-35 in Burlington by a vote of 4-1!!!!!!!!!! So this is what winning one feels like?"A victory indeed. Juliet and the other activists have struck a blow against the evil jets of Lockheed Martin. Well ...
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• Surprise, Surprise: Pebble Mine Partnership Immediately Attacks EPAs Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment

  
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  Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDCs Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA You may have heard that, after 15 months of study, the US Environmental Protection Agency last week released in draft for public comment its Bristol Bay Watershed ...
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• Speaking Up & Speaking Out Symposium Utah May 17-19: Social & Environmental Justice through Parks, Recreation, Tourism, and Leisure

  
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  University of Utah College of Health Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Speaking Up and Speaking Out: 1st International Symposium Speaking Up and Speaking Out Working for Social and Environmental Justice through Parks, Recreation, Tourism, and Leisure May 17 – 19, 2012 The purpose of this symposium is to ...
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• Nuclear Offline in Japan

  
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  As the US makes plans to build more nuclear power plants, Japan has found none of its existing nuclear facilities safe enough to operate. Public trust is lost… (Photo courtesy of The New Age .) By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) – Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Silica dust poses newly revealed health risks from fracking

  
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  Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. I am very pleased to present this blog from NRDCs James Meinert,  guest blogging from the exciting meeting he attended this week... The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science recently convened a roundtable on Fracking and Health ...
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• Southwestern Tribes Lead Cultural Healing March to Move Beyond Coal

  
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  Enduring record heat, Native Americans in southern Nevada led a three-day, 50-mile Cultural Healing Walk over Earth Day weekend to draw attention to the devastating effects of coal pollution on their community. The Moapa Band of Paiutes partnered with the Sierra Club to organize the walk and Earth Day rally, which ...
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• Save Parks in Los Angeles!

  
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  Diverse allies who are members of parkssave! held a press conference on the steps of city hall April 30 to preserve funding for park programs. Click here to view The City Project’s policy report on green access and equal justice in Los Angeles in English and Spanish. Click here to see the KCET SoCal Connected [...]
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• Forget Homeland Security, Now It’s About “Environmental Justice”

  
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  Forget Homeland Security, Now It’s About “Environmental Justice” It is the nature of any government to seek to expand its authority. The Founding Fathers knew this and gifted Americans with a Constitution that limits authority devolving it to the states and to “the people.” Read the Tenth Amendment. It ...
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• Right-wingers mistake humorous Audi ad for Obama policy; embarrassment should follow

  
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  . . . but perhaps won’t.  I swear it seems as if someone has a concession at Tea Party functions selling self-lobotomy kits, and they’re selling like $10 iPhones. File this in the “Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad” department, with loss of sense of humor as a key symptom. You may have seen this ad ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hawaii Residents Raise Serious Concerns about PGV, Geothermal Energy’s Clean Energy Credentials

  
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  The experience of residents living near the Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV), about 20 miles south of Hilo on Hawaii’s “Big Island”, raises serious questions about the environmental health and safety of geothermal energy and power plants. Longstanding residents of area around PGV’s geothermal plant– now being ...
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• Water Sentinel Lynn Henning Wins Planet Defender Award

  
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  Photo by Tom Dusenbury On April 20, Sierra Club Water Sentinel and Michigan family farmer Lynn Henning received a 2012 Planet Defender Award from Rock the Earth, a Colorado-based environmental advocacy organization that works closely with the music industry. Then that evening, she appeared on HBOs Real Time ...
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• Get a Bag and a Receipt: When Social and Environmental Justice Collide

  
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  What does the Trayvon Martin murder have to do with sea turtles choking on plastic bags or the toxicity of bisphenol-A?  At first glance, not a whole lot.  And it’s not the kind of  news I would normally write about on My Plastic-Free Life .  But listening to the April 17 episode of the American Public Media ...
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• In Ohio, "A Shared Duty"

  
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  Karen Hobbs, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago Next week, the Ohio Senate will consider legislation to implement the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact  (Compact).  The bill, introduced by Rep. Lynn Wachtmann, ignores Compact protections for tributaries and opens the door ...
  4 weeks ago

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