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Worldwide Direct Action Campaigns Target Fossil Fuel Industry
Posted by EcoWatch: Lauren Berlekamp on July 12th, 2013
EcoWatch: As the summer heats up, awareness is quickly escalating across the world as different direct action campaigns target a common denominator: the fossil fuel industry.
Earlier this year, organizers including 350.org launched the Summer Heat and Fearless Summer campaigns, calling for a global uprising to "peacefully but firmly" stand up to the industry that is wrecking our future.
As people are joining together to embrace non-violent direct action on behalf of the climate, 350.org published the...
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Tar Sands Disaster: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?
Posted by EcoWatch: Lauren Berlekamp on May 6th, 2013
EcoWatch: New reports of tar sands oil-related disasters continue to reinforce that the Keystone XL pipeline is too risky for American families.
Despite a "massive cleanup effort," ExxonMobil has recovered only 2,000 of the total 5,000 barrels of spilled Canadian tar sands crude in Mayflower, AK, according to the accident incident report from last month`s Pegasus pipeline disaster. The report was released by the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)...