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UK environmentalists brace for flood of fracking
2014-01-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Environmentalists in the United Kingdom are reeling after French energy giant Total became the first company to announce an investment in fracking in the country. The $48 million play is tiny by industry standards, but many see it as the first sign that Prime Minister David Camerons push to allow the controversial practice has paid off, despite protests from environmentalists who say the environmental danger posed by shale gas exploration (commonly known as fracking) outweighs the potential economic...
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Environmentalists Win Power Plant Fight
2013-12-18 05:35:41| Waste Management - Topix.net
A power company has dropped its plans to build a coal-fired generating plant in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula, ending years of conflict with environmentalists over the project.
Environmentalists, unions seek to fix gas leaks
2013-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Unions and environmentalists have found one point of agreement in the bitter debate over the natural gas drilling boom: fixing leaky old pipelines that threaten public health and the environment. It's a huge national effort that could cost $82 billion. The leaks are a problem because methane, the primary component of natural gas, is explosive in high concentrations and is also a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. The Department of Transportation estimates that more than...
US owes us climate debt PH environmentalists
2013-11-13 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rappler: Developed countries responsible for global warming must pay for losses and damages experienced by developing countries due to disasters related to climate change. This was the demand made by Filipino environmentalists during a rally in Manila on Monday, November 11, that coincided with the opening of the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. (READ: Stop this climate crisis madness) The rally was held only two days after Super Typhoon Yolanda (international codename Haiyan) exited...
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Environmentalists targeting ag laws
2013-11-08 02:52:01| Livestock - Topix.net
The Hoosier Environmental Council has targeted food safety, animal rights and the environmental impact the corporate livestock industry has in Indiana.
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