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Senator Robert Byrd Remembered for Opposition to Factory Farms
Animal rights groups today are remembering longtime United States Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who died this morning at the age of 92.
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The 2010 State of the Union Address [w/video]
Tonight is the State of the Union Address and we’d like you to join us in a live twitter chat during and after the speech. Join the conversation in our TweetChat Room. Or if you are going to be tweeting but don’t think you’ll make the chat, share you tweets with us and the chat room by adding the hash tag #ecosotu to your tweets.
New York Tries to Deal with Radioactive Drilling Waste from Marcellus Shale
As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It’s radioactive. And they have yet to say how they’ll deal with it.
Colorado: The 2008 State of the Green State Address
Denver – For the second year in a row, Colorado environmental leaders were delighted to learn that green issues were one of the central themes of Governor Bill Ritter’s State of the State Address. Considering that the Governor, as well as both houses of the legislature are held by the Democrats, my guess is that [...]
Greenwashing Your Electricity
As of writing, the Tri-State Generation and Transmission homepage has a total of eight wind turbines on it; a curious number considering it is eight more than they have on their entire grid. This seems an oddity considering the tremendous wind energy resource within their sprawling service territory. But this is most likely about to [...]
