By Nate Schweber Environmental damage from recent oil leak ranges from contaminated water supply to polluted farmland GLENDIVE, Montana — When an oil pipeline burst in July 2011 and poured 63,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River 200 miles… Read More ›
Natural resources
Delaware-sized gas plume over West illustrates the cost of leaking methane
Delaware-sized gas plume over West illustrates the cost of leaking methane – The Washington Post/MSN News The country’s biggest methane “hot spot,” verified by NASA and University of Michigan scientists in October, is only the most dramatic example of what… Read More ›
The Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Almost Certainly Dead
The Keystone XL Pipeline project is almost certainly dead. No, not because a bill that would have finally given the go-ahead to begin construction fell one vote short in the lame duck Senate last month. Sure, that halted the legislative… Read More ›
Water Pipelines
By Zoltan Grossman via The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington With diminishing water supplies and rapid human population growth, communities and countries are being prompted to investigate alternative water resources. Water pipelines have been a proposed, but controversial option. These… Read More ›
‘Keystone XL Clone’ to Pump Tar Sands Oil Starting Next Year
By Anastasia Pantsios As Republicans get set to test their new majority in the U.S. Senate and their complete control of Congress to push through approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, a new investigative report by editor Lou Dubose at the… Read More ›
New solar material converts 90% of captured light into heat
By NEHA KARL Scientists have created the ‘black hole of sunlight’ – a new nanoparticle-based material that absorbs and converts more than 90 percent of captured sunlight to heat. Research from the US have developed a super-Sun-absorbing material that will… Read More ›
Canadians Can’t Drink Their Water After Massive Keystone XL Spill
A breach in a tailings pond from the open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine sent five million cubic meters (1.3 billion gallons) ofslurry gushing into Hazeltine Creek in B.C. That’s the equivalent of 2,000 Olympic swimming pools of waste,… Read More ›
Another Oil Spill Courtesy of Fracking
Some American citizens believe that the Federal Government should not regulate any state or business. The video above is an example of why both Federal and State Government Regulations are important. If we want clean safe water, a beautiful state, a healthy environment, regulating corporate… Read More ›
Photographer Captures Tar Sands Destruction From Above
The Huffington Post | By James Gerken Photographer and pilot Alex MacLean wanted to learn more about the Keystone XL pipeline, which if approved will carry oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, so he decided to take pictures from… Read More ›
Obama’s Global Warming Rule Leaks Early
The Environmental Protection Agency will debut draft regulations on Monday to cut carbon emissions from power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to multiple sources briefed on the proposal. The Wall Street Journal first reported details of… Read More ›
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