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    Youth Activists Hit the Streets to Protest Bank of America

    Youth Activists Hit the Streets to Protest Bank of America

    Energy Action Coalition Just weeks before Bank of America’s (BoA) May 9 shareholders meetings, thousands of students pledge to move their money and took to the streets to demand Bank of America stop financing dirty coal and bankrupting our future with predatory lending and student debt. Energy Action Coalition, along with student and youth organizations […]

    Northeastern Coal Plant Retirement Announced in Oklahoma

    Northeastern Coal Plant Retirement Announced in Oklahoma

    Sierra Club Sierra Club joined Gov. Mary Fallin, Attorney General Scott Pruitt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and American Electric Power subsidiary Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (AEP-PSO) yesterday in announcing an agreement in principle in pending federal court litigation over the state’s clean air protections. The agreement sets firm dates for retiring both units […]

    Survey Yields Surprising Results about Americans’ Energy Concerns

    Survey Yields Surprising Results about Americans’ Energy Concerns

    Civil Society Institute The common wisdom is wrong—There is no political “fault line” that divides Americans along party lines when it comes to clean energy issues and solutions. Majorities of Republicans, Independents and Democrats agree that the U.S. should move away from its reliance on dirty energy sources that foul the air and water and […]

    Activists Spotlight Apple’s Dirty Energy in New York and San Francisco

    Activists Spotlight Apple’s Dirty Energy in New York and San Francisco

    Greenpeace USA Today Greenpeace activists are demonstrating at Apple stores in San Francisco, New York and Toronto asking Apple to “Clean our Cloud” as part of a campaign to get the company to power its massive data centers with renewable energy instead of coal. “People around the world want to use their iPhones and iPads […]

    TAKE ACTION: Prevent the BP Oil Disaster from Happening Again

    TAKE ACTION: Prevent the BP Oil Disaster from Happening Again

    Save Our Gulf Sign this petition today and ask the directors of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to enforce strict regulations that make off-shore drilling safe.   CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION   When the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, 2010, killing 11 […]

    Sign Petition to Enforce Strict Regulations for Off-Shore Oil Drilling

    Sign Petition to Enforce Strict Regulations for Off-Shore Oil Drilling

    Stefanie Penn Spear Today is the second anniversary of the BP oil disaster. We all remember the horrific images of the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, that killed 11 oil rig workers, injured 17 others and released about 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the ocean for […]

    BP’s Gulf Disaster—Where’s the Response?

    BP’s Gulf Disaster—Where’s the Response?

    Phil Radford Co-Authored by Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA and Aaron Viles, deputy director of Gulf Restoration Network The BP disaster turns two this week. Two years since the nation was reminded that offshore drilling is dirty, dangerous, and deadly. Two years since the slow-motion disaster began changing our region, our communities, our […]

    PART 2:  BP Covered Up Blow-out Prior to Deepwater Horizon

    PART 2: BP Covered Up Blow-out Prior to Deepwater Horizon

    Greg Palast Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up—which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission.  Yesterday, Ecowatch.org revealed that, in September 2008, nearly two years before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP […]