Tag Archives: Environment

Oil hits Alabama’s Mobile Bay

Crews begin installing a protective boom across the mouth of Mobile Bay in Alabama May 11, 2010. Oil workers, volunteers and the military have been battling to shut off a gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and stop … Continue reading

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Drill, Baby, Drill

Photo: A view of the oil slick from space by NASA on May 24, 2010. The Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill is the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history. It is an oil gusher from the sea floor of the … Continue reading

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Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf

Photo credit: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar visited a wildlife treatment center in Louisiana on Saturday. Jim Wilson, The New York Times. Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one … Continue reading

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Nevada Test Site Radioactive Groundwater

Dann Weeks wrote an informative article last week in the Pahrump Mirror about radioactive groundwater making its way from the Nevada Test Site toward Beatty. Tests showed the groundwater contains radioactive contamination. Next time you fill your glass with water … Continue reading

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World’s glaciers are melting at a rapid and alarming rate

Glaciers worldwide are melting faster than anyone had predicted they would just a few years ago. It offers a clear indication of an accelerating climate change and warming earth, according to the authors. [CNN] These changes are taking place in … Continue reading

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Your chance to support a Clean Energy Plan

Show your support for a Clean Energy Plan Let our elected officials know we need green jobs. Host: Nevada State Democratic Party Type: Meetings – Informational Meeting Date: Monday, August 10, 2009 Time: 8:30am – 10:00am Location: Steps of the … Continue reading

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National Clean Energy Summit 2.0

Jobs and the New Economy Host: U.S. Senator Harry Reid, UNLV, and Center for American Progress Action Fund Type: Meetings – Convention Network: Global Date: Monday, August 10, 2009 Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm Location: UNLV – Cox Pavilion Street: 4505 … Continue reading

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Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

NASA reports: Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, based on data from a … Continue reading

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President Obama’s Listening Tour in Pahrump

Organizing for America (OFA) has officially landed in Nevada. Organizing for America is dedicated to forwarding President Obama’s agenda through grassroots action, and to creating a progressive, grassroots movement in the State of Nevada. In order to best serve Nevada, … Continue reading

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Heller and Cap and Trade

Republicans in Congress will spend the Memorial Day recess attacking Democrats for pushing a cap-and-trade bill that could raise Americans’ transportation and energy costs wrote The Hill on May 23, 2009. “Democrats and the Obama administration have said that putting … Continue reading

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