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U.S. Cities and Chinese Coal Pollution
From China Dialogue | January 23, 2013 Around 9,000 feet up, on a remote mountaintop in the state of Oregon, a group of researchers are on the lookout. It is not planes or wildlife they are tracking but pollution clouds. The monitoring site is run by Dan Jaffe, professor of atmospheric and environmental chemistry at […]
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Climate change is here — and worse than we thought
By James E. Hansen, Published: August 3 When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankind’s use of fossil fuels. […]
Posted in: Dirty Coal, Environment
California energy officials plan for life without San Onofre
As officials make short-term plans to cope while the San Onofre plant is off line, they’re also starting to think about the possibility of a nuclear-free future.
Posted in: California, Nuclear
Glendale & Los Angeles Lead the pack in fighting coal plant emissions
Of the six notorious Dirty Coal Burning Southern California cities… • Anaheim • Burbank • Glendale • Los Angeles • Riverside • Pasadena Glendale and Los Angeles are the two coal-burning cities to embrace the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants (MATS). Mayor Laura Friedman joined six other […]
New Rules Limit Coal Plants [The Wall Street Journal]
New Rules Limit Coal Plants EPA Tips Scales Toward Natural Gas in Power Generation; Miners, GOP Cry Foul Associated Press – Dominion’s electricity-generating plant in Salem, Mass., has an oil- and a coal-fired unit. Existing plants aren’t affected by the new EPA rules. The Obama administration on Tuesday announced long-awaited rules to limit […]
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Kersten Study Estimates AB 1543 (Alejo) Creates Millions of Jobs in California and the U.S.A.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kelly Rivas April 5, 2012 (916) 444-2425 Kersten Study Estimates AB 1543 (Alejo) Creates Millions of Jobs in California and the U.S.A. A report released today by California policy researchers David Kersten and former California State Senate policy expert Elizabeth Kersten found that “AB 1543 would have a massive impact on […]
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Renewable Energy Accountability Project (REAP) Salutes Santa Barbara Assemblyman Das Williams For Anti-Coal Export Resolution
For Immediate Release Contact: Kelly Rivas March 29, 2012 (916) 444-2425 Renewable Energy Accountability Project (REAP) Salutes Santa Barbara Assemblyman Das Williams For Anti-Coal Export Resolution The Renewable Energy Accountability Project (REAP) salutes the Assemblyman Das Williams (D-Santa Barbara) for introducing a legislative resolution (AJR 35) to prevent the toxic trade of dirty coal shipments […]
SF Chronicle: State calls PG&E lawbreaker
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. diverted more than $100 million in gas safety and operations money collected from customers over a 15-year period and spent it for other purposes, including profit for stockholders and bonuses for executives, according to a pair of state-ordered reports released Thursday. An independent audit and a staff report issued by […]
Posted in: California
Virginia Earthquake prompts temporary shut-down of North Anna Nuclear Power Plant: REAP calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to make the shut-down permanent
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake in central Virginia hit four miles away from Mineral, VA – home to the North Anna Nuclear Power Plant (NANPP). The earthquake triggered the automatic shut down of both reactors at the Dominion-operated nuclear power plant. Four emergency diesel generators are currently supplying power for critical safety equipment. While […]
Posted in: Nuclear
What is BNSF hiding?
If you haven’t ever visited the rail company BNSF’s website, then you wouldn’t notice anything different; but for many environmentalists who are battling the ongoing coal export issue which has now leaked into Oregon, the change is dramatic. The railroad company Burlington Northern-Santa Fe, BNSF has recently taken down vital information about the degrading problem […]
Posted in: Dirty Coal, Pollution
Click to learn more about the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point, WA
The REAP Report 
February 4, 2013
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