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Pricing the Carbon: Senators Boxer and Sanders Introduce New Climate Legislation
The new bill, which is the first since cap and trade failed to pass the Senate in 2009, would put a $20/ton fee on carbon, raising trillions of dollars to offset impacts on consumers and create new investment in renewable energy sources.
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Exposed: Photos Reveal "Daylight" in Faulty Welding on Keystone Pipeline
Members of the Tar Sands Blockade have revealed that they have photographic evidence showing faulty welds inside a mile-long segment of the Keystone XL pipeline currently under construction near Winona, East Texas.
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Our Climatic Moment: We Didn't Find Nemo - We Made Him
We must stop our nation’s, and our planet's, fatal addiction to fossil fuels before climate change wipes us all out. And this begins with President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Why Organized Labor Must Stand Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Union leaders who support the XL Pipeline are acting against their membership's long-term interests in countering climate change, and putting themselves at odds with popular consciousness and scientific consensus.
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Get Involved! It's the Hour for People Power in America
The social movements leading the push for immigration reform and gun regulations must ratchet up pressure after these latest battles are won to win the battles for climate change and anti-poverty legislation.
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The Question No One Is Asking About Keystone XL
Why are we arresting Americans for trespassing on their own property? It sure looks like it's just so a foreign corporation can get rid of their toxic oil and a handful of billionaires in Texas can make big profits refining and exporting it.
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In Maine, 1,000 Rally Against Exxon Tar Sands Pipeline
In the largest protest in the Northeast against tar sands, massive crowds from Maine, New England and Canada marched across Portland opposing the 236-mile long, 62-year-old Exxon/Enbridge pipeline.
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"Petcoke" from Tar Sands Warms Climate More Than Coal
Environmental groups last week released a study that found refining tar sands will create 5 billion tons of burnable petroleum coke, or petcoke, which emits more CO2 than coal.
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Welcome to Blockadia!
A vast but interwoven web of campaigns are building a unified front in Oklahoma and Texas, where people are standing up against the fossil fuel industry and demanding an end to the development of tar sands pipelines.
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Tar Sands Blockaders Lock Themselves to Trucks Outside Valero's Houston Refinery
Activists in Houston began a sustained hunger strike on Thursday, demanding that energy giant Valero divest from the Keystone XL Pipeline project.
