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Obama’s New Year’s Resolution? More Fracking.
The 2014 US Climate Action Report to the United Nations is out. The official line from the White House is celebrating how the US is going to meet the 2009 Copenhagen greenhouse gas emissions commitment. However, we read the fine print and here is Barack Obama’s fracking plan for electricity generation in 2020: “Natural gas-fired…
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Tire Burner Stopped in White Deer, PA!
First major victory of the year… a community we’ve been supporting since October 2011 to stop a planned tire incinerator just won! In White Deer Township, Union County, Pennsylvania, En-Tire Logistics proposed the White Deer Energy Project, which would have burned tires to power the National Gypsum plant next door. The company pulled out of the project, withdrawing…
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Mapping Race and Income – JusticeMap.org (BETA)
JusticeMap.org (BETA) is an exciting new initiative to map race and income at a very high level of resolution for the entire United States. We’re using data from the 2010 Census (race) and American Community Survey (income) and some software (TileMill) to create a series of map layers. The project is supported by the Sunlight Foundation. https://www.justicemap.org/…
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We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the US. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.
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