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800+ Rally Against Fracked Gas Export Terminal in Largest Environmental Protest in Baltimore History
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 21st, 2014
EcoWatch: Yesterday, as a key state permit hearing began in downtown Baltimore, MD, activists from every corner of the state and from across the Mid-Atlantic marched to the doorstep of the Public Service Commission to send one clear message to state leaders: “Stop Cove Point.”
The controversial $3.8 billion Cove Point project, proposed by Virginia-based Dominion Resources, would take gas from fracking wells across the Appalachian region, liquefy it along the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland, and export...
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Comments Off on 800+ Rally Against Fracked Gas Export Terminal in Largest Environmental Protest in Baltimore HistoryRachel Maddow Devotes Large Portion of Show to Hazards of Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 19th, 2014
EcoWatch: Yesterday, as reported on EcoWatch, the Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News and The Weather Channel released an investigative report and short film on how volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released during the fracking process are polluting the air in South Texas, home of the Eagle Ford Shale basin.
Last night, Rachel Maddow devoted an extended portion of her MSNBC show to the barrage of issues surrounding the fracking process. Maddow began with discussing the increasing number of earthquakes...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Rachel Maddow Devotes Large Portion of Show to Hazards of FrackingTexas Town Seeks Fracking Ban
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 18th, 2014
EcoWatch: The Denton Drilling Awareness Group (Denton DAG) today announced they are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing within city limits. If approved by voters, Denton would become the first major Texas city to ban fracking, and the first city in the country to ban fracking after permits had been previously granted.
“The city and the state have repeatedly failed us,” said Maile Bush, whose family is impacted by fracking-enabled oil and gas development. “My family...
Plan Shows Regulatory Agency and Fracking Industry in Cahoots Promote Drilling in State Parks
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 16th, 2014
EcoWatch: Public documents reveal a plan by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the agency responsible for regulating fracking in Ohio, to work with "allied" groups to promote the controversial drilling technique in state parks. The "allied" groups named were both fracking industry and state regulatory bodies alike, drawing new criticisms to what many people have been calling Gov. Kasich`s agenda to have his own way with the state`s public funds and resources.
The document, Oil & Gas State...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Plan Shows Regulatory Agency and Fracking Industry in Cahoots Promote Drilling in State ParksRachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash Spill
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 14th, 2014
EcoWatch: Hear the latest on the 73 Olympic-size swimming pools worth of toxic sludge that Duke Energy dumped into North Carolina waterways starting Super Bowl Sunday in this Rachel Maddow interview with Michael Gerrard, professor of environmental law at Columbia University. Gerrard talks about a North Carolina federal investigation into this coal ash leak disaster.
For more information on this third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, read Waterkeeper Alliance’s four-part series: part one, part two,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Rachel Maddow Exposes Dirty Deal in Duke Energy Toxic Coal Ash SpillHighly Contaminated Water Still Pouring Into Public Drinking Source on Dan River
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 13th, 2014
EcoWatch: Waterkeeper Alliance and Yadkin Riverkeeper have obtained the results from a second round of water sampling on the Dan River in the wake of the third largest coal ash spill in recent U.S. history. Their results confirm that highly-contaminated coal ash seepage is still pouring out of the same Duke Energy ash impoundment where an estimated tens of thousands of tons of raw ash erupted into the river last week. The newly-confirmed leak is located about a third of a mile upstream of the pipe where last...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Highly Contaminated Water Still Pouring Into Public Drinking Source on Dan RiverState Department Hiring of Oil Industry Consultant to Write Keystone XL Environmental Review
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 12th, 2014
EcoWatch: Today Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth submitted evidence to the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General to support the ongoing inquiry into conflicts of interest and mismanagement in the environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The groups request that the Inspector General takes steps to ensure that the tainted Final Environmental Impact Statement, released on Jan. 31, is excluded from the agency’s National Interest Determination.
“The State Department hired an...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on State Department Hiring of Oil Industry Consultant to Write Keystone XL Environmental ReviewBill McKibben to President Obama: Say No to Big Oil
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 7th, 2014
EcoWatch: In an interview with Moyers & Company, author and environmental activist Bill McKibben tells Bill Moyers that many who believed Barack Obama in 2008 when he called for ending the tyranny of the oil industry are about to find out “whether or not they were right to believe.” McKibben said President Obama is “theoretically a good environmentalist,” but in practice “stood aside and opened up the Arctic to drilling, opened up huge swaths of offshore America to more oil drilling, opened up the Powder...
Fish Farms to Produce Two-Thirds of Global Supply by 2030
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 7th, 2014
EcoWatch: Aquaculture--or fish farming--will provide close to two thirds of global food fish consumption by 2030 as catches from wild capture fisheries level off and demand from an emerging global middle class, especially in China, substantially increases.
These are among the key findings of Fish to 2030: Prospects for Fisheries and Aquaculture--a collaboration between the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI),...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Fish Farms to Produce Two-Thirds of Global Supply by 2030Slideshow: Thousands Attend Vigils Last Night Protesting Keystone XL
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 4th, 2014
EcoWatch: Last night, thousands of people attended more than 270 vigils around the country with this unified message: Keystone XL fails President Obama’s climate test. The vigils were in response to the State Department’s release on Friday of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Check out this slideshow representing a small sampling of the vigils: This video was tweeted last night by someone attending a local vigil. In addition to being an excellent...
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