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Western towns hard-hit by climate change unite, target coal for funds
2015-05-04 04:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: Ten Western mountain towns feeling the effects of climate change are launching a campaign that targets the coal industry, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars a year from companies to help communities adapt. The "Mountain Pact" towns in Colorado and neighboring states contend that, because coal is a major source of heat-trapping greenhouse gases linked to climate change, the industry should pay more to help deal with the impact. In a letter being sent this week to federal officials, lawmakers...
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Court Strikes Down Mass. Towns Attempt to Block Alternative Hauling Mode
2015-03-05 19:41:00| Waste Age
For 25 years the town of Yarmouth shipped solid waste by rail from its transfer station to a waste-to-energy facility in Rochester under a contract with Bay Colony Railway, but in 2007 Massachusetts put an end to that arrangement, triggering a complicated court battle over whether BCR could ship the waste by truck or another rail operator would step in. read more
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Fracking ban forcing some New York towns consider redrawing state line
2015-02-28 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Plenty of people leave New York state but in a job-hungry stretch of upstate, folks talk about staying put and seceding to Pennsylvania. Local officials stung by a recent decision to ban natural gas fracking have raised the idea of redrawing the Keystone States border. Even though they dont expect it to happen, members of the Upstate New York Towns Association hope the spectre of secession will result in something anything good for a struggling part of the state peering enviously over...
After West Virginia Explosion, Oil Trains Quietly Rerouted Through Virginia Towns
2015-02-24 02:31:42| Railroads - Topix.net
This aerial Feb. 17, 2015 file photo photo made available by the Office of the Governor of West Virginia shows a derailed train in Mount Carbon, W Va. After a CSX Corp. train carrying 3 million gallons of crude oil derailed and exploded in West Virginia last week, the company is quietly rerouting its volatile cargo through 16 Virginia cities and counties, according to Reuters .
CSX oil train derails in West Virginia; 14 cars on fire, towns evacuated: media
2015-02-16 22:50:54| Railroads - Topix.net
A CSX Corp train hauling crude derailed in West Virginia, setting 14 cars ablaze and forcing the evacuation of two nearby towns in the second significant oil-train incident in three days, local media reported on Monday. At least one of the tank cars careened into the Kanawha River another plowed into a house before bursting into flames, wvgazette.com cited Lawrence Messina, communications director for the state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, as saying in a report on its website.
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