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Twin Enviros Liman Reflects on a 50-year (and counting) Ride in Waste Management
2020-09-03 14:08:00| Waste Age
In 1969, after his discharge from the Army, Les Liman, founder of Twin Enviro in Colorado, got a job in a restaurant at a ski resort in Steamboat Springs, thinking hed just be a ski bum for a while. But he was sharing a trailer with a guy who cleane
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Enviros: Diablo Canyon's closure a 'template' for other states
2016-06-23 14:05:14| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s announcement yesterday that it would shutter California's last nuclear plant and replace the power with energy efficiency and renewable energy was the result of a confluence of progressive state policies, CEO Anthony Earley said. The closure of Diablo Canyon's two nuclear reactors on California's central coast in 2024 and 2025 will likely mean the end of nuclear power in the state, due to an existing state moratorium on new plants until the problem of radioactive waste...
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Thai Enviros Pay for Activism on Toxic Dumping, Coal Plants with Their Lives
2015-04-06 14:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Environmental activist Jintana Kaewkao confronts a member of the Forestry Department in Bangkok, Thailand, about the suspicious way forest land near her village was acquired by the owners of a steel plant. Jintana Kaewkao, a 53-year-old activist, shop-owner and mother of three, arrived at the district government office on March 12 ready for a fight. With local tensions rising over the planned construction of a steel manufacturing plant amid the wetlands and coconut trees of this seaside community...
Obama admins new fracking rules are just too weak, enviros say
2015-03-20 20:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Obama administration rolled out fracking rules today that will regulate about 100,000 oil and gas wells on public and tribal lands. The rules come after a long process, initiated in Obamas first term, to regulate the now-booming industry, and attracted more than 1.5 million comments from the public and interested groups. The new regulations, which were issued by the Department of the Interior, will go into effect in 90 days, and are aimed at wells spread over 750 million acres of public and...
Enviros Want to Defend Denton, TX, Fracking Ban
2014-12-08 22:34:12| Waste Management - Topix.net
Fracking opponents and an environmentalist group want to help a Texas city defend its fracking ban against a powerful state energy lobby. The grassroots Denton Drilling Awareness Group and Earthworks filed a petition in intervention on Dec. 4 in Denton County District Court.
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