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Arctic Drilling Foes Seek to Block Seismic Surveys, Lease Sales in Alaska Refuge
2020-12-16 15:27:13| OGI
Four lawsuits have been filed since August challenging the Trump administrations plans to auction drilling rights, or lease sales, in the area.
Ubers Bitterest City Council Foes Finally Have the Votes for a Crackdown
2017-11-17 20:55:12| PortlandOnline
Dirk VanderHart in the Portland Mercury, November 15, 2017
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Fracking foes put fake feces under donkey art displays
2016-07-12 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Environmental activists have made an unconventional addition to some of the fiberglass donkeys positioned around Philadelphia ahead of the Democratic National Convention. Food & Water Watch says activists placed fake piles of feces below the behinds of 19 of the 57 donkeys around the city on Tuesday, symbolizing their stance that the Democratic Party's platform on fracking is "crappy." Organizer Sam Bernhardt says citizens oppose the controversial drilling technique that uses high-pressure...
Fracking foes unveil 11 proposed ballot initiatives including ban
2015-12-23 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: A Boulder County-based citizens group opposed to fracking filed a package of ballot initiatives Tuesday that would circumvent a compromise sought by Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder. Coloradans Resisting Extreme Energy Development submitted paperwork for 11 potential ballot questions to provide mandatory setbacks for wells from homes and schools, more local control on drilling decisions or an outright ban on the process of hydraulic fracturing. Eight of the 11 are...
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Mercury decision boosts bid to kill climate rule - EPA foes
2015-12-17 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: U.S. EPA critics were dismayed as federal judges this week kept intact a major Obama administration rule to slash mercury emissions from power plants, but others saw a silver lining. Having the mercury rule in place, they say, bolsters their arguments against another major rule, EPA's Clean Power Plan. In the litigation over that landmark rule to limit power plants' greenhouse gas emissions, a central argument made by EPA's critics is that the agency lacks authority to issue the climate rule...