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Dethroning King Coal for the sake of the planet
2013-08-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: Earlier this year, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million (ppm). The last time there was that much CO2 in our atmosphere was three million years ago, when sea levels were 24 meters higher than they are today. Now sea levels are rising again. Last September, Arctic sea ice covered the smallest area ever recorded. All but one of the 10 warmest years since 1880, when global records began to be kept, have occurred in the 21st century. Some climate scientists...
W. Pa. residents worry about coal ash impacts
2013-08-10 08:06:46| Energy - Topix.net
Yma Smith, of LaBelle, lives 315 yards from a coal ash dump. When she bought her house 16 years ago, it was white.
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Tribe, environmentalists sue NV Energy over coal plant waste
2013-08-09 15:39:15| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Tribal members and environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to force NV Energy to clean up the site of a coal-fired power plant the utility plans to shut down by 2017. The Moapa Band of Paiutes and the Sierra Club are calling for the safe removal of a coal ash waste dump next to the Reid Gardner Generating Station, which has operated at the edge of tribal land for almost 50 years. Both groups have sued before over pollution concerns from the plant, but this marks the first lawsuit...
Tribe files lawsuit over Vegas-area coal plant
2013-08-09 04:07:55| Electronics - Topix.net
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Tribe files lawsuit over Vegas-area coal plant
2013-08-09 01:58:53| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Environmentalists and Indians are asking a federal court to order utility company NV Energy to clean up land and water they say has been contaminated by an aging coal-fired power plant slated for closure beginning next year outside Las Vegas.
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