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The Most Dangerous ‘Model’ Laws Written by ALEC

The Most Dangerous ‘Model’ Laws Written by ALEC

Greenpeace By Cassady Sharp The same law that contributed to George Zimmerman walking free out of a Florida courtroom last weekend after taking the life of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was primarily written by the same super lobbying group behind legislation protecting natural gas companies from disclosing chemicals used in fracking. The American Legislative Exchange Council, […]

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    14 Activists Arrested Protesting Coal in South Africa

    14 Activists Arrested Protesting Coal in South Africa

    Greenpeace Africa Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a boardroom table. (Yusuf Omar, Twitter) Fourteen activists including groundWork‘s Bobby Peek, Earthlife’s Makoma Lekalakala and Greenpeace Africa‘s Melita Steele have been arrested while protesting at the Eskom megawatt park. Today, three campaigning organizations joined forces to put South Africa’s energy utility, Eskom, under “new management.” Activists confronted […]

    BREAKING: TVA Liable for Massive Tenn. Coal Ash Spill

    BREAKING: TVA Liable for Massive Tenn. Coal Ash Spill

    Waterkeeper Alliance By Donna Lisenby Watauga Riverkeeper Donna Lisenby takes water samples on December 27, 2008 while paddling between giant ash bergs created by the 1 billion gallon TVA Kingston coal ash spill into the Emory River in Tennessee. Photo credit: John Wathen, Hurricane Creekkeper. Waterkeeper Alliance salutes today’s ruling by federal district court Judge […]

    Greenpeace Report Shows a Cheaper, Cleaner Pathway for Duke Energy

    Greenpeace Report Shows a Cheaper, Cleaner Pathway for Duke Energy

    Greenpeace USA Today Greenpeace released Charting the Correction Course: A Clean Energy Pathway for Duke Energy. Using modeling performed by Ventyx, an energy consultancy, the report details how Duke Energy can save their customers $108 billion over 20 years by investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency. “Jim Rogers claims that Duke is a green […]

    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 […]

    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 […]

    BREAKING: Judge Ruling Could Expedite Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

    BREAKING: Judge Ruling Could Expedite Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

    Jeff Biggers In an alarming rebuke to fledgling U.S. EPA efforts to regulate devastating mountaintop removal mining operations today, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the Obama administration overstepped its authority in revoking a permit last year for the largest proposed strip-mining operation in central Appalachia. Despite a growing health and human rights […]

    Fire on Earth—The Coalfields of Jharia

    Fire on Earth—The Coalfields of Jharia

    Isabell Zipfel In Jharia, in the federal state of Jharkhand, around 600,000 people live in the middle of one of India’s biggest coal mining areas. There’s nothing in it for most of them. Quite the opposite: the soil, the water and the air are now contaminated, of all things in an area that was previously […]

    Chicago’s Fisk and Crawford Coal Plants Announce Retirement

    Chicago’s Fisk and Crawford Coal Plants Announce Retirement

    Sierra Club On Feb. 29, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Midwest Generation announced the planned retirement of the Fisk and Crawford coal plants, two of the oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the nation located in the heart of Chicago’s Southwest side. According to an agreement signed by Midwest Generation, the Clean Power Coalition, and […]