Climate And Safe Energy
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10 Big Local Wins Against Dirty Energy
- By: Ellen Simon
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Waterkeepers around the world fight for clean water. As Waterkeeper Alliance turns 20, we’re looking at some of their biggest wins. These fights are...
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Approval of Massive Utah Oil Shale Development
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Water-sucking Project Threatens Endangered Species, Climate, Air Quality Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration to challenge what would...
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Groups Move to Defend N.C. Order that Duke Energy Must Clean Up Coal Ash Pollution at Six Sites
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Duke’s Refusal Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills Community groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center moved...
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Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Strengthen Rule on Toxic Wastewater from Power Plants
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
EPA must update guidelines for reducing toxic wastewater pollution from steam-electric power plants Siding with environmentalists, the U.S. Court of Appeals...
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N.C. Coal Ash Victory: State-Level Peer Pressure
- By: Ellen Simon
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Catawba Riverkeeper Brandon Jones was standing before a packed gym of angry people in January, asking North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality...
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North Carolina Orders Duke Energy to Clean Up its Coal Ash Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Decision Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills After hundreds of North Carolina residents came out to meetings and called for...
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Tell EPA: Keep Mercury Limits Strong
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Thanks to air emissions standards created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air Act in 2011, important progress in reducing...
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US insurers provide lifeline to coal as global insurance market shrinks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Report shows European insurers leading on restricting coal industry’s access to underwriting while U.S. insurers undermine action to tackle climate...
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Waterkeeper Alliance responds to Sutton coal ash spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Following Duke Energy’s disclosure of a coal ash release at its L.V. Sutton Power Station outside Wilmington, N.C. on Sept. 15, 2018, Donna Lisenby,...
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Major consumer, climate groups call on insurance industry to ditch fossil fuels
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
New campaign Insure Our Future to hold US insurers accountable for a role in climate change as first US insurance company to commit not to invest in coal...
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Energy Transfer and Sunoco Pipelines Have Leaked Every Eleven Days on Average
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Energy Transfer Partners, its subsidiaries including Sunoco, and joint ventures reported 527 hazardous liquids pipeline incidents to federal regulators...
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Stop EPA from Eliminating Protections Against Toxic Coal Ash | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is attempting to roll back important public protections from coal ash, a toxic waste that contaminates water...
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Groups Blast EPA Over Proposal to Hand Over Regulation of Coal Ash to State Agency
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
National and local Oklahoma environmental and conservation groups jointly submitted public comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) explaining...
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Pollution Report shows significant danger posed by coal ash in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
- By: Mobile Baykeeper
- Climate And Safe Energy
Mobile Baykeeper’s detailed investigation report highlights coal ash pollution and dam safety concerns at Alabama Power’s Plant Barry Mobile Baykeeper...
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Appeals Court Panel allows Bayou Bridge pipeline construction to resume while legal appeals proceeds
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
In 2-1 ruling, court lifts preliminary injunction and expedites appeal schedule The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit today granted a motion...
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Trump Administration Guts Safeguards For Nation’s No. 2 Toxic Pollution Threat
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Coal ash waste linked to cancer, heart disease, stroke, brain damage The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decided yesterday afternoon that it will...
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Groundwater Monitoring Reveals Widespread Radioactivity at Duke Energy Coal Plants
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Data shows high levels of radioactivity at 11 of 18 plants Today is the deadline for coal-fired power plants to post the results of their groundwater...
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Federal judge blocks construction of Bayou Bridge pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Pipeline construction would “irreparably harm” Atchafalaya Basin BATON ROUGE, LA – Federal District Court Judge Shelly Dick halted the construction...
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Press Conference: Atchafalaya groups discuss fight to stop Bayou Bridge pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Groups will gather outside federal courthouse prior to hearing on preliminary injunction BATON ROUGE, LA— Representing the interests of the millions...
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Atchafalaya Groups Seek Halt to Construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Federal Judge Will Hear Requests for Immediate Injunction in Atchafalaya Seeking an immediate halt to the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline, several...
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Hydropower is NOT Clean Energy: Dams and Reservoirs are Major Drivers of Climate Change
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
On November 8, 2017, the House of Representatives approved a bill, H.R. 3043, that defines hydropower as a renewable energy source and fast-tracks the...
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Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Responds to Keystone Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Yesterday, TransCanada’s Keystone 1 pipeline spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands oil in South Dakota, just days before the Nebraska Public...
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Leading insurance companies divest $20 billion from coal and end underwriting
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Scorecard finds most insurers still failing to take action on coal to prevent dangerous climate change Leading insurance companies have pulled $20 billion...
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EPA Withholding Public Information; Groups File Freedom of Information Suit Over America’s Worst Toxic Water Pollution Source
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
First, EPA abruptly abandoned protections to prevent toxics from being dumped into our waterways — now, the agency is illegally keeping information...
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Organizations, Citizens Speak Out Against EPA’s Rollback of Toxic Water Pollution Limits
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Waterkeeper Alliance says EPA’s action to delay requirements is illegal Environmental and health organizations and concerned citizens from throughout...
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Duke Energy’s Plans for Coal Ash Dumps Threaten Indiana’s Great Rivers, Underground Water Supplies
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
The company’s plan to leave toxic waste in place will cause contamination State and national public interest groups are calling on Indiana environmental...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to President Trump’s Decision to Withdraw from Paris Agreement
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
President Trump’s decision is divorced from reality and puts the United States on the wrong side of history. NEW YORK, NY – President Trump today...
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Polluters Ask Trump Administration to Cut Safeguards for Nation’s No. 2 Toxic Pollution Threat
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Coal Ash Waste Linked to Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Brain Damage Dangerous piles of industrial waste laced with lead, arsenic, mercury and other toxics...
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Report Reveals Coal Mining a Major Obstacle to Indonesian Food Security
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Indonesian mining advocacy network, JATAM, and international clean water nonprofit, Waterkeeper Alliance, today released a damning report, “Hungry...
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Rampal Thermal Power Plant: Potential Air Pollution, Toxicity and Effects on Human Health
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
A press conference was held for the publication of international research report titled as “Rampal Thermal Power Plant: Potential Air Pollution, Toxicity...