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Much of Minnesota Is Flooded as Swollen Rivers Overflow
Posted by New York Times: Julie Bosman on June 25th, 2014
New York Times: Minnesota was besieged on Tuesday by some of its most widespread flooding in years. Water spilled onto streets in downtown St. Paul, crops of soybeans and corn were damaged and a state of emergency was declared in 35 counties. The flooding spanned vast regions of the state, from the Canadian border to Iowa. It was the result of an unusually heavy snowpack from winter, combined with torrential rain this spring and early summer that had filled lakes and wetlands. A major storm that brought close to...
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Mine: Protesters, investors urge PNC to abandon mountaintop-removal financing
Posted by Pittsburgh City Paper: Charlie Deitch on June 25th, 2014
Pittsburgh City Paper: Eileen Flanagan is no stranger to executives at PNC Bank.
Flanagan, of the Philadelphia-based environmental group Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT), appeared at an April PNC shareholder meeting in Tampa, and as recently as October, stood outside the bank's Downtown headquarters and bank branches with a single demand: Stop funding companies that engage in mountaintop-removal coal mining (MTR).
Now she and other environmentalists, including Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International,...