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Environmental Leaders Expose How the Coal Industry Poisons Our Water

Environmental Leaders Expose How the Coal Industry Poisons Our Water

Waterkeeper Alliance By Donna Lisenby Any kid can tell you when Harry Potter takes off his invisibility cloak, he goes from invisible to visible in seconds. Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and other environmental leaders came together in Charlotte, NC, Tuesday to pull the cloak of invisibility off of toxic water pollution from […]

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    Nuclear Dominoes Fall in California and Kentucky

    Nuclear Dominoes Fall in California and Kentucky

    Neighbors for an Ohio Valley Alternative By Geoffrey Sea [Read Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV of this series] Southern California Edison (SCE) has abandoned plans to restart its two nuclear reactors at San Onofre. The announcement this morning comes exactly one week after termination of operations at the Paducah, Kentucky, uranium […]

    Stiffed USEC Sues Feds in Nuclear Slugfest

    Stiffed USEC Sues Feds in Nuclear Slugfest

    Neighbors for an Ohio Valley Alternative By Geoffrey Sea [Read Part I, Part II and Part III of this series] The United States Enrichment Corporation, the contracting subsidiary of USEC Inc.—the company that now produces nothing—has filed a lawsuit in the Court of Federal Claims seeking $38 million in back-bill payment from the U.S. Department […]

    Connecticut Makes History as First State to Pass GE Food Labeling Law

    Connecticut Makes History as First State to Pass GE Food Labeling Law

    This week, Connecticut won the honor of becoming the first state to pass a law requiring genetically engineered foods to be labeled. (The governor has indicated he will sign.) It was really only a matter of time. The disappointing defeat of Prop 37 last fall in California—thanks to a massive industry disinformation campaign—sparked a national […]

    Fighting Big Food’s Deceptive Marketing Campaign

    Fighting Big Food’s Deceptive Marketing Campaign

    Michele Simon Last month, the City of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against Monster Beverage over the marketing of the company’s highly caffeinated products to youth children. This is just the latest example of using the legal system to hold the food and beverage industries accountable for deceptive marketing practices. With the federal government all […]

    Breaking: Uranium Enrichment Ends at Paducah

    Breaking: Uranium Enrichment Ends at Paducah

    Neighbors for an Ohio Valley Alternative By Geoffrey Sea [Read Part I, Part II and Part IV of this series] USEC Inc. has confirmed that today, May 31, is the last day of uranium enrichment at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, marking the end of sixty-one years of operation. The monstrous facility was […]

    Top 5 Reasons LNG Exports Are a Very Bad Idea

    Top 5 Reasons LNG Exports Are a Very Bad Idea

    Michael Brune Most Americans have probably heard about the “boom” in natural gas, with U.S. production up by one-third since 2005. Besides historically low natural gas prices, one consequence is that companies like Exxon Mobil are now pushing the federal government to approve permits for more than 20 liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. Big […]

    Slow Cooker at Paducah Comes to a Boil

    Slow Cooker at Paducah Comes to a Boil

    Neighbors for an Ohio Valley Alternative By Geoffrey Sea [Read Part I, Part III and Part IV of this series] Last week on EcoWatch, I predicted that negotiations between USEC Inc. and the Department of Energy (DOE) over extension of operations at the Paducah uranium enrichment plant would fail, and that principal power-down would happen […]

    Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah

    Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah

    Neighbors for an Ohio Valley Alternative By Geoffrey Sea [Read Part II, Part III and Part IV of this series] Disaster is about to strike in western Kentucky, a full-blown nuclear catastrophe involving hundreds of tons of enriched uranium tainted with plutonium, technetium, arsenic, beryllium and a toxic chemical brew. But this nuke calamity will be […]