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Enviros push 'public trust' as trump card over oil and gas influence
2014-08-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnergyWire: Last Dec. 19 was a gratifying day for John Dernbach. In 162 pages the state's highest court had resurrected a provision in Pennsylvania's Constitution that had long ago faded into obscurity. The forgotten measure is an environmental rights amendment nestled in Article 1, among core protections of civil rights and due process. The amendment gives people a right to clean air, pure water and conservation of natural resources. It hands environmentalists an opportunity to transform the natural gas debate...
Enviros Blamed for Bursting Frack Bubble
2014-08-11 15:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Heres The Script, in four despicable acts: Act 1. Fracking boom goes bust as production from shale gas and tight oil wells stalls out and lurches into decline. Act 2. Oil and gas industry loudly blames anti-fracking environmentalists and restrictive regulations. Act 3. Congress rolls back environmental laws. Act 4. Loosened regulations do little to boost actual oil and gas production, which continues to tank, but the industry wins the right to exploit marginal resources a little more...
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Enviros bash industry-backed green building program
2014-05-15 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Corporations that stand to lose the most from a widespread shift toward genuine green building practices are doing what they can to preserve the status quo. For years they`ve been smearing LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, the nations preeminent green building certification program. They have lobbied lawmakers to ban the use of LEED certifications for government buildings -- and they have succeeded in some states, such as in Maine. And they`ve cooked up their own green-building...
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Enviros pump money and energy into Colorado Senate race
2014-05-14 05:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The U.S. Senate race in Colorado - which is a dead heat in the latest polls - pits a climate hawk against a climate change denier. The outcome may hinge partly on environmental issues, and it may also determine control of the Senate. Republicans need to pick up six seats to take the Senate. Luckily for the GOP, Democrats have to defend a number of seats in red and purple states, many with significant fossil fuel interests, including West Virginia, South Dakota, Montana, Arkansas, Louisiana, North...
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Keystone XL Battle Plan May Not Fit Enviros' Fight Against LNG Exports
2014-03-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Environmentalists using a Keystone XL template to battle natural gas export terminals can draw a powerful parallel between the infrastructure projects -- both would speed up the development of vast fossil fuel pools -- but face longer odds against a new, harder target in the shale industry. A KXL-inspired strategy against liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plans emerged last week in a letter to President Obama signed by 16 green groups and spearheaded by two of the oil sands crude pipeline's most...