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As solar installations multiply, U.S. utility companies fight back
2016-09-18 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Below the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, they glimmer in the relentless Nevada sun like scales on a monstrous grey dragon. More than 26,000 solar panels cover 113,000 square metres of rooftop. It's the biggest solar array of its kind in America. "Just look at its physical size," says MGM's chief sustainability officer Cindy Ortega from high atop the Delano hotel which overlooks the arrays. "We have a lot of sunshine here and we want to take advantage of that renewable energy." The solar panels...
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Hundreds Fight Dakota Access Pipeline in D.C
2016-09-14 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courthouse News SErvice: Nearly one month into a standoff along a tributary of the Missouri River, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have taken their protest of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to the White House. Calling on President Barack Obama to permanently halt construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline, the rally Tuesday evening in Washington was one of several scheduled in cities throughout the country, including Los Angeles and Atlanta. Obama did intervene on the Sioux's behalf last week, asking Dakota...
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Our Greatest Organizers Win Big At Standing Rock, But The Fight Goes On
2016-09-11 20:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: For the last few weeks many of the finest organizers in North America have been gathering in a remote camp near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation along the Missouri River. And yesterday they won a battle that though temporary and tenuous should stand with what happened at Selma and Birmingham in the annals of Americas protest history. The backstory is fairly simple. Oil companies wanted to build a pipeline to get some of the crude that theyve been fracking out of the Dakotas to market....
Native Americans celebrate pause of N. Dakota pipeline, vow to fight on
2016-09-11 04:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Native Americans protesting construction of a North Dakota oil pipeline near land they consider sacred on Saturday quietly celebrated the U.S. government's decision to pause construction on federally owned land, and vowed to press for a full halt to the project. On Friday, the Obama administration temporarily halted construction on federal land of the planned pipeline that has angered the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and asked the company behind the project to suspend nearby work. The move came...
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In The Battle To Save Frogs, Scientists Fight Fungus With Fungus
2016-09-10 12:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A deadly fungus that's been devastating frog populations is spreading across the globe it's helped drive the extinction of 200 species so far. In California, the chytrid fungus has moved inexorably across the Sierra Nevada, leaving thousands of frogs dead. But scientists are trying to turn the tide against the fungus with an experimental treatment, one that could matter to frogs worldwide. They're making a last-ditch effort to save the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog by immunizing it against...
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