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Gas Industry Successfully Overturns Colorado Fracking Ban
The Fort Collins city council, buckling under the threat of a lawsuit by the oil and gas industry, decided last week to overturn a ban on hydraulic fracturing that had been in place for only a few months.
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Big Coal Faces Even Bigger Opposition in Pacific Northwest
The Kinder Morgan victory -- in which a powerful energy company retracted plans to build a coal export terminal on the Columbia River in Oregon -- provides a good case study for how communities have been able to beat back the coal industry.
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NY State and Local Retirement Fund Campaigns to Divest from Fossil Fuels
The campaign aims to halt public investments in the fossil fuel industry.
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In Europe, March Against Monsanto Is Latest Rejection of the GMO Giant
Momentum is building across Europe, country by country and region by region, to outlaw the biotech giant.
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Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
People sometimes have the power to make change happen — if and when they come together and act.
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Fracking: Coming Soon To Suburbia
The fracking industry has taken over the U.S., with more than 500,000 oil-producing wells located in rural and suburban land throughout the country in 2012.
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Mexico vs. Monsanto: A Fight for the Future of Maize
They are going to serve up transgenic maize on every table in spite of the fact that food sovereignty depends on growing native corn.
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NASA's James Hansen Takes the Case Against Tar Sands to Britain
Hansen accused the Canadian government of "holding a club" over the U.K. and European nations to accept its "dirty" oil, while a new study confirmed that 97% of climate reports attribute climate change to human actions.
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Monsanto Protection Act May Soon be Repealed Thanks to Activism
A United States Senator is expected to try to repeal the law after mounting public pressure.
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Koch Brothers Dump Three-Story Pile of Toxic Byproduct on Detroit
A black mound of Canadian oil waste is rising over Detroit, courtesy of the Koch brothers.