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Keystone XL Pipeline Not A Climate Change Cure
Posted by Time: Michael Scherer on March 16th, 2013
Time: Barack Obama has seen protesters from his motorcade for years: McCain and Romney campaign supporters, health care reform opponents and all manner of Tea Party acolytes. But when he left Argonne National Laboratory in a cold rain outside Chicago on Friday, there was another breed altogether: environmentalists bearing bright hand-painted signs with messages like, “No XL Pipeline.”
In a matter of months, the Obama Administration will have to decide whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline, a 2,000...
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University of Tennessee’s Fracking Plan Stirs Protests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 16th, 2013
New York Times: The University of Tennessee faced protests here on Friday over its proposal to let a private company drill for natural gas across a forest controlled by the university.
Environmentalists say opening the Cumberland Forest in eastern Tennessee to hydraulic fracturing, a process known as "fracking,' could harm wildlife and scenery on the 8,000-acre tract of state-owned land.
But the university says it would create a rare, controlled environment in which experts could study the environmental impact...
Oregon Residents Sound the Alarm on Pending Coal Export Permit
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on March 16th, 2013
EcoWatch: More than 450 Oregon residents and a diverse group of local leaders flooded the steps of Oregon’s Capitol Wednesday morning to call on Governor Kitzhaber to deny Ambre Energy a dredging permit at the Port of Morrow.
Many community leaders and residents feel they can’t trust the Australian-based coal company which in 2011 lied to the community of Longview about its plans to expand from annual coal shipments of 5 million tons to as much as 80 million tons--15 times the amount claimed on its application....