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Waterkeepers Worldwide Stand Strong Against Global Impacts of Coal Trafficking
Posted by EcoWatch: Marc Yaggi on December 4th, 2012
EcoWatch: As you read this, the Army Corps of Engineers is holding a series of public hearings on a proposal to build the largest coal-export terminal in North America. A consortium of investors, myopically focused on profit, want to build the Gateway Pacific Terminal, a carbon-trafficking behemoth that is among the most ominous new climate-killing proposals to hit the U.S. in the last century.
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5 Wishes for the Clean Water Act on Its 40th Birthday
Posted by EcoWatch: Marc Yaggi on October 18th, 2012
EcoWatch: The Clean Water Act turns 40 today. As many know, a 40th birthday can be a momentous occasion for some, an "it`s all downhill" moment for others and just another year for the indifferent. We have many successes to celebrate for the Clean Water Act`s 40th, but our industry-controlled Congress is making it awfully hard to feel good about blowing out the candles.
After a year of kowtowing to big polluters with piecemeal attempts to gut the Act, last month, House Republicans decided to go whole hog...