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Glastonbury Awarded For Energy Efficiencies At Three Buildings
The town has received three "Power Of Change" awards for energy efficiencies at the wastewater treatment facility, Buttonball Lane Elementary School and Town Hall. The town received "first honors" in the top municipal wastewater treatment plant...
Tags: Water Supply, Environmental Issues, Energy Saving, Plant Openings
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LETTER: Objects To One Sentence, Claims Climate Change 'Debunked'
Regarding the editorial "Pass The Clean-Energy Bill" [May 22], I take issue with one sentence in the editorial: "Global warming is making the development of alternatives to fossil fuels urgent." This statement is a clear example of the ubiquitous...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Weather
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Time for greens to embrace nukes
For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...Tags: Environmental Issues, Earth Day, Energy Resources, Science, Ecosystems
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West Hartford Wins Two Power Of Change Awards For Energy Efficiency Efforts
The Hartford CourantThe town and school district received top honors at Tuesday's Power of Change municipal awards ceremony for their energy-saving efforts. The town earned "Top Town Hall" and the schools took first in the Innovation category in the first year of the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Ceremonies, Human Interest, Energy Saving, Renewable Energy
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Shake off your apathy, take a stand
I can no longer remain in one of the fastest growing groups in America, Apathy Anonymous. I've lived nearly 70 years and have marched, signed petitions, written letters to everyone from the president, to local, state and federal officials, concerning...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Change, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, West Bank
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Majority thinks global warming, clean energy should be priorities
WASHINGTON – Global warming and clean energy should be priorities for Congress and the president, a majority of Americans said in a recent survey. In the survey, released Tuesday by Yale and George Mason universities, 70% of American adults say...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Change, Keystone XL Pipeline, Alternative Energy, U.S. Congress
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COLUMN-Keystone XL double standard: Tale of 2 pipelines: Campbell
ReutersBy Robert Campbell NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - A casual observer familiar with the Keystone XL saga would think the United States was making it very hard to build any oil sands-related pipelines. But nothing could be farther from the truth. While...Tags: Environmental Issues, TransCanada Corporation, Standards, Keystone XL Pipeline, Energy Resources
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CORRECTED-White House threatens veto of bill to bypass Obama on Keystone
Reuters(Corrects to 67 from 60 the votes needed in Senate to overcome presidential veto) By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The White House has threatened to veto legislation pending in the U.S House of Representatives that could strip from President...Tags: Environmental Issues, TransCanada Corporation, Washington, DC, Keystone XL Pipeline, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Front & Center: Ethanol critic: End state mandate
Florida legislators passed a bill this year to repeal the state law that requires most gasoline sold in the state to include 10 percent ethanol. The bill, awaiting action from Gov. Rick Scott, would be largely symbolic, because federal law still...Tags: Environmental Issues, Ethanol, Lobbying, Rick Scott, Renewable Energy
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Moniz, sworn in as energy secretary, delays action on LNG exports while he studies data
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Tuesday he will delay final decisions on about 20 applications to export liquefied natural gas until he reviews studies by the Energy Department and others on what impact the exports would have on...Tags: Environmental Issues, Washington, DC, Ernest J. Moniz, Energy Resources, Energy Saving
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Mailbag: Losing Chief Small is bad for H.B.
Our wonderful Chief of Police Ken Small has announced his retirement ("Police chief to retire, May 16"). It is a sad day for Huntington, as Ken truly cared about the safety of our residents and would often go beyond the call of duty, always answering...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, State Parks
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Less meat eaten, more planet saved
A review of 12,000 papers on climate change in the May 15 issue of "Environmental Research Letters," found that 97 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activities. Although we're unlikely to reverse climate change, we can mitigate its...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Canterbury
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