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Fracking “Shock Doctrine” Unveiled as 2013 Illinois Legislative Session Nears...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog The shale gas industry has performed the “shock doctrine” at the 11th hour of the 2013 Illinois State Legislature’s debateover hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), the toxic...
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Obama Approves Major Border-Crossing Fracked Gas Pipeline Used to Dilute Tar...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Kinder Magic? Although TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has received the lion’s share of media attention, another key border-crossing pipeline benefitting tar...
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Stink Tanks: State Policy Network Internal Budget Documents Revealed by The...
The Madison Hotel, DCCross-Posted from DeSmogBlog It’s been a rough week for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The “corporate bill mill” group’s annual States & Nation meeting was...
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Stink Tanks: Historical Records Reveal State Policy Network Was Created by ALEC
Cross-Posted by DeSmogBlog The Madison Hotel, DC A 1991 report tracked down by DeSmogBlog from the University of California-San Francisco’s Legacy Tobacco Documents reveals that the State Policy...
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Silent Coup: How Enbridge is Quietly Cloning the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Despite activist opposition, “pipeline giant Enbridge has quietly cloned its own Keystone XL in the U.S and Canada.” While the debate over the TransCanada Keystone XL tar...
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Dairyland to Petrostate: Wisconsin Oil-By-Rail Routes Published for First Time
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog BNSF and other rail companies are carrying dangerous oil tankers through Wisconsin. DeSmogBlog is publishing the first documents ever obtained from the Wisconsin...
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Investor Call: Enbridge’s Keystone XL Clone Opens in October, Rail Facility...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog In a recent quarter two call for investors, Enbridge Inc executives said the company’s “Keystone XL” clone — the combination of the Flanagan South and Seaway Twin pipelines...
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Court: Key Environmental Law Doesn’t Apply to Part of Enbridge Keystone XL...
A judge just ruled federal law doesn’t apply to this pipeline firm. A U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that Enbridge’s 600-mile-long Flanagan South Pipeline, a Keystone XL...
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After Oregon Rejects Coal Export Plan, Long Beach Votes to Export Coal and...
The “Green” Port of Long Beach will now export millions of tons of pollutants per year. Just a day after the Oregon Department of State Lands shot down a proposal to export 8.8 million tons per year of...
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Labor Day News Dump: FERC Hands Enbridge Permit for Tar Sands by Rail Facility
Syncrude’s base mine On the Friday before Labor Day — in the form of an age-old “Friday News Dump“ — the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) handed a permit to Enbridge, the tar sands-carrying...
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