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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
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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Tagged Corporate Greed, Energy, Environment, Government, Oil Spill, Samantha Joye, T. Boone Pickens
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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
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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Tagged Amargosa, Beatty, contamination, Environment, Health Care, Nevada Test Site, radioactive, Tonopah, Tritium, Video, Water
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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
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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Tagged Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Green Jobs, Nevada Democrats, Nye, Nye County Democratic Central Committee, Nye Democrats, Rally
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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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Tagged Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton, Danny Thompson, Economy, Energy, Environment, Harry Reid, Steven Chu, T. Boone Pickens, Van Jones
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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
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