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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Premiers Earth Day on PBS
2014-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Mark Kitchells 1990 Oscar nominated documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties, covered the campus activism that disrupted the House Un-American Activities Committees hearings, launched the Free Speech Movement, fought the police at Peoples Park and inspired student spokesman Mario Savio to declare: There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you cant take part Youve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all...
National energy boom blurs traditional Democratic-Republican battle lines across country
2014-04-19 09:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The U.S. energy boom is blurring the traditional political battle lines across the country. Democrats are split between environmentalists and business and labor groups, with the proposed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline a major wedge. Some deeply conservative areas are allying with conservationists against fracking, the drilling technique that's largely responsible for the boom. The divide is most visible among Democrats in the nation's capital, where 11 Democratic senators wrote President Barack...
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Senators want public to help pay for legal battle between car dealers and makers
2014-04-19 03:57:14| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Taxpayers may help foot the bill for a bitter legal battle between a consortium of the nation's largest auto manufacturers and Florida's local car dealerships.
Compensation battle rages four years after BP's U.S. oil spill
2014-04-18 12:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over. Jules Melancon, the last remaining oyster fisherman on an island dotted with colorful houses on stilts, says he has not found a single oyster alive in his leases in the area since the leak and relies on an onshore oyster nursery to make a living. He and others in the southern U.S. state say compensation...
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As La. Coast Recedes, Battle Rages Over Who Should Pay
2014-04-16 09:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Louisiana's coast is disappearing at the rate of about a football field an hour. Since the 1930s, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed up an area the size of Delaware. You can see the water encroaching in Delacroix in St. Bernard Parish, less than an hour southeast of New Orleans. Here, a narrow crescent of land known locally as the "end of the world" is where the road abruptly comes to a dead end; in the distance, you see the tops of now-submerged trees. "It's hard to imagine if the coast continues...
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