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How a Grassroots Effort is Taking Plastic Straws Off the Menu in Boulder, Colo.
2017-07-24 19:11:13| Waste Age
Americans use 500 million straws per day, which has led the plastic tubes to be listed in the top 10 lists of littered items found on beaches and in waterways.
Obama tries to revive a grassroots solar program
2016-07-19 23:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Can the Obama administration Frankenstein a celebrated solar program back to life? The administration announced a new plan on Tuesday to bring solar power to more neighborhoods - but its actually an old plan, long-stymied. The Property Assessed Clean Energy program, known as PACE, was created in 2007 when Berkeley, California, realized the same tools used by neighborhoods to pay for big projects like street paving could also be used to pay for installing solar panels. People in homes with panels...
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Arrogant TransCanada misread grassroots Keystone opposition
2015-11-07 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star: In his announcement Friday that he will not approve the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, U.S. President Barack Obama is signalling to world leaders his determination that more ambitious goals be set for confronting global warming at the upcoming climate-change summit in Paris next month. In that cause, Obama has a kindred spirit in Justin Trudeau. The new Canadian PMs support for the Keystone XL has been tepid at most. And Trudeaus own plans for the Paris summit are unprecedented: He has recruited...
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Technip Awarded Technology License And Process Design Package Contract For Grassroots Ethylene Cracker In The U.S.
2015-11-02 02:05:34| chemicalonline Home Page
Regulatory News: Technip (Paris:TEC) announced recentlythat it has entered into a contract to supply its proprietary ethylene technology and PDP(1) to PTTGC America LLC (PTTGCA), a subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical, Thailand’s largest integrated petrochemical and refining company, for a 1,000 KTA grassroots ethane cracker to be located in Belmont County, Ohio, USA
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Grassroots Activists Have Come to Washington For Generations To Make Things Happen
2015-09-01 14:27:11| National Farmers Union
By Roger Johnson, president, National Farmers Union For generations, Farmers Union activists have come from across the land by bus, plane, automobile or train to bring the issues affecting the nations farm families directly to their members of Congress. And some of the participants have made several dozen trips to the nations capital over the
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