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Electric Vehicles Combat Climate Change

Global Green

That means much less waste and a better deal for the environment. Throughout the US, coal has been the leading source of energy for electric power generation. Electric energy generation by renewable sources has doubled since 2008. Almost 90 percent of the increase in renewables came from wind- and solar-power generation.

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PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0; True Energy Independence

PA Environment Daily

The natural gas industry could even start drilling on the 65 percent of State Forest land it leased in 2008 and 2010, but never developed for gas. Read more here. And Their Politicians] -- ScrantonT Editorial: Lackawanna Transit Should Prepare For Electric Buses -- U.S.

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Majority Chair Of Senate Committee Calls Opponents Of Natural Gas Infrastructure ‘Radical Environmentalists,’ Arguments By Supporters Of RGGI ‘Hysteria’

PA Environment Daily

Until you agree to close the hazardous waste loopholes in Pennsylvania, under state law, [until] the two committees agreed to that, this would be a different conversation. percent in the 10-state RGGI region from 2008 to 2020. and one nuclear power plant-- Three Mile Island Unit 1.] “I percent in Pennsylvania and 46.9

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Climate Election 2024: “Drill, Baby, Drill” but Then What?

Legal Planet

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. That chant is back in vogue, as the general election heats up.

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

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The "Patriots" at Raytheon

Corp Watch

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.

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Ukraine conflict a boon for defense industry

Corp Watch

on Thursday, capping a battle that began in 2008, when it was revealed that a toxic plume was under the area. USA: Raytheon Agrees to Deal with Residents Kameel Stanley | Tampa Bay Times | June 17, 2011 A neighborhood's years-long fight with a multibillion-dollar corporation over pollution has come to an end. Residents in St.