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Environmentalists opposing Dynegy pollution waiver
2013-08-16 22:08:25| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Environmental groups have filed formal objections to a request by Dynegy Inc. to waive pollution controls at five Illinois coal-fired plants.
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Environmentalists: Be sure plant site is clean
2013-08-11 16:11:48| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Exide Technologies Baton Rouge Recycling Center is preparing to shut down. The Louisiana Environmental Action Network has asked the state Department of Environmental Quality to make sure there is enough money to close the facility properly and to confirm that hazardous waste on the site has been properly removed.
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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...
Environmentalists sue bank over loan guarantee to domestic coal broker
2013-08-01 14:37:25| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Above the harbor in Baltimores industrial Curtis Hill district is a one-acre urban farm. Jason Reed, a community organizer who works there, described the view. I can look out over the harbor, and you can see the piles and piles of coal, he said. That coal is the subject of a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a coalition of environmental groups against the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The groups are challenging the federal agencys financing of fossil fuel exports from ports in Baltimore...
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Environmentalists must redefine what 'progress' means
2013-08-01 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "What's this?" I asked my nephew. He was soon to turn two, and I thought, perhaps, he would be able to identify the plastic toy in my hand as a "dinosaur". "Edmontosaurus", he told me. I checked the label on its foot. He was right. Just before his fifth birthday, he corrected me on a question of astronomy: "No, Venus is hotter than Mercury. Mercury is closer to the sun, but Venus has poisonous gases which keep the heat in". I used to know that, I remembered, before I grew up and got boring. It...
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