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Tag: Pollution

Oil Pipeline Pumping Station in rural Nebraska

Nexen-owned pipeline spills an estimated five million litres of bitumen, sand and water in Alberta

July 17th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Nexen-owned pipeline spills an estimated five million litres of bitumen, sand and water in Alberta A pipeline at Nexen’s Long Lake oilsands project in northeastern

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Pope Francis

George Lakoff: Pope Francis’ new encyclical is a model for how progressives should reframe

June 25th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Religion, Spirituality

George Lakoff: Pope Francis’ new encyclical is a model for how progressives should reframe Linguist George Lakoff has posted a must-read discussion of the English

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Pilsen and Pollution

Politico takes an in-depth look at the success of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign

May 27th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Politico takes an in-depth look at the success of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign Republicans like Mitch McConnell of Kentucky have repeatedly and continually

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Oil spill along California coast

Pipeline rupture sends oil down California coast

May 19th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Rachel Maddow reports breaking news of an oil pipeline rupture at Refugio Beach near Santa Barbara, California that has created an oil slick along 4 miles of coast and threatens popular El Capitan State Beach.

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Keystone XL Pipeline Protest at White House

Renewed grassroots push begins in the plains to block Keystone XL

May 6th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Renewed grassroots push begins in the plains to block Keystone XL The New York Times reports on the organizing being done in South Dakota to

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Pope Francis

Right wing upset about Pope Francis’ planned call to action on climate crisis

April 27th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

The New York Times is once again giving conservative Catholic voices based in the United States a platform with which to attack Pope Francis. The

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Oysters in Willapa Bay

Washington (stupidly) turns to neurotoxins to save its non-native oysters

April 25th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Washington (stupidly) turns to neurotoxins to save its non-native oysters In one of the finest pieces that Bloomberg has ever published, journalist Bill Donahue explains

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Map of Oklahoma earthquakes (2011)

Oklahoma concedes that wastewater wells cause quakes

April 21st, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning

Oklahoma concedes that wastewater wells cause quakes The Republican-dominated government of Oklahoma conceded today that science has conclusively demonstrated that the underground disposal of wastewater

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A coal-fired power plant in China

Here’s what China closing coal-fired power plants means for emissions

April 19th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Here’s what China closing coal-fired power plants means for emissions The world’s most populous country has decided to shut down a number of extremely dirty,

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Oil spill cleanup in English Bay

In plain sight: How the Marathassa oil spill took hours to find

April 18th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Our Environment

In plain sight: How the Marathassa oil spill took hours to find A fuel spill in Vancouver’s picturesque English Bay has raised serious questions about

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Tesla Roadster in front of wind turbines

Big Oil is about to lose control of the auto industry

April 17th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Commerce, Core Topics, Our Environment

Big Oil is about to lose control of the auto industry A pollution-free revolution is about to shake up the automobile industry, resulting in cars

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Mitch McConnell teams up with dirty energy companies to fight EPA

March 19th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Mitch McConnell teams up with dirty energy companies to fight EPA Not content with opposing a clean energy future for America from the Senate floor,

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Sheldon Whitehouse predicts Republican attempts to force President Obama to allow TransCanada to build Keystone XL will fail

March 5th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment

If Senator Hoeven wants to play more hostage politics with the Keystone pipeline that simply revives the two big failures of their disastrous first two

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State Senate doing its oily best to ignore us on transportation

March 1st, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning

State Senate doing its oily best to ignore us on transportation The Republican-controlled Washington State Senate is doing its best to ignore a plan proposed

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New instrument readings show Earth’s climate is warming

February 26th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Science

New instrument readings show Earth’s climate is warming Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and U.C. Berkeley have produced the first direct evidence that human

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Oregon Democrats plan to put their bigger legislative majorities to good use

February 2nd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Elections, Legislative Advocacy

Oregon Democrats plan to put their bigger legislative majorities to good use Last year, the Oregon Democratic Party did something remarkable. In an election year

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Another day, another pipeline explosion

January 27th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve National Defense, Our Environment

Another day, another pipeline explosion MSNBC: “Rachel Maddow reports on a natural gas pipeline in Brooke County, West Virginia that exploded in a huge fireball,

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2014 was the warmest year ever recorded on Earth

January 16th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

2014 was the warmest year ever recorded on Earth The evidence just keeps on mounting that the climate crisis is getting worse, but humanity seems

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Democrats plan tough votes for Republicans on Keystone pipeline bill

January 12th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment

Democrats plan tough votes for Republicans on Keystone pipeline bill The Hill looks at some of the amendments Democrats plan on putting before the Senate

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A pipeline and a pie in the sky

January 9th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

A pipeline and a pie in the sky New York Times columnist Timothy Egan chastises the Republican-controlled Congress for doing the bidding of a foreign

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Most remaining fossil fuels need to stay in the ground to avoid dangerous pollution levels

January 7th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Most remaining fossil fuels need to stay in the ground to avoid dangerous pollution levels New research by University College London, published in the journal

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