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OUR POWER PLAN THE CLEAN POWER PLAN On August 3, 2015 President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Clean Power Plan (CPP) to reduce power plant carbon emissions 32% by 2030 (from 2005 levels). The administration billed it as “an historic step in reducing carbon pollution from power plants that takes […]
Guest commentary: Rhea Suh, Director of Natural Resources Defense Council The Southeast Environmental Task Force is grateful for its association with the NRDC, and for all they have done to help on the southeast side of Chicago. Rhea Suh’s Blog Posted November 18, 2015 Community activists are leading a shift from
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The Southeast Environmental Task Force joined the Sierra Club in their Beyond Coal campaign. Guest story via Politico: How Mike Bloomberg, red-state businesses, and a lot of Midwestern lawyers are changing American energy faster than you think. By Michael Grunwald The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by
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Guest Editorial: The United States Government Leads in Crimes Against the Planet: Obama Approves 30 Million Acres for Drilling World Can’t Wait, Bay Area | May 29, 2015 “For a leader who has made fighting climate change a priority, President Barack Obama’s decision to approve Royal Dutch Shell’s return to oil and gas exploration off
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North Dakota has 20,000 miles of largely unregulated ‘gathering lines,’ and that number is expected to increase by around 60% over the next five years By Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News Mar 11, 2015 Lawmakers Move to Regulate Pipelines, After a Record Spill in a Drilling Boom Two months after the biggest fracking-related spill in recent
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Valentine’s Day Petcoke http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mgeertsma/nothing_says_love_like_petrole.html Chicago Dust Report: Making Sense of February’s Petroleum Coke Announcements… http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mgeertsma/chicago_dust_report_making_sen.html Pet Coke Community meeting –March 19th – East Side Methodist Church 1100 South Ewing (Specific time TBA)
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Erika Spanger-Siegfried, senior analyst, Climate & Energy Program March 9, 2015 What could justify the Governor of Florida, a state widely considered “ground-zero” for climate change in the U.S., to prohibit the use of that term by state staff? In Florida, more than a million people live within 3 feet of the high tide mark.
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An article in the Tribune today may be cause for celebration. Read about Leucadia throwing the towel in and moving on to other projects: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0815-leucadia-exit–20120815,0,7834384.story
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There will be a special, FREE screening of the documentary, “The Dirty Business of Coal” at 6:30 PM on February 10th at the Zone, 11731 Ave. O, Chicago. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with the Director, Peter Bull and Robert Rosenthal of The Center for Investigative Reporting. Please plan to attend to find
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