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DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 14, 2020
It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the village of tiny houses, erected in the path of a long-distance oil pipeline that runs from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. .
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 5, 2021
The White House is billing it as a “generational investment” that will lead to “transformational progress in our ability to tackle climate change.”. But a day later, Indigenous youth and organizers opposing the Line 3 and Dakota Access pipelines rallied in front of the White House against the two fossil fuel pipelines.
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DeSmogBlog
JULY 8, 2020
Tags: plastic production environmental justice House Oversight Committee cancer alley COVID-19 However, for many communities of color living in close proximity to the petrochemical plants producing those plastics, the exact opposite is often true.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 24, 2020
The project’s developer, the Decro Group, has pledged that the new building, which is one of six active multi-family developments under construction in a five-block radius, will provide supportive and affordable housing for “chronically homeless individuals, persons at risk of becoming homeless, and low-income families.”.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 26, 2020
Federal agents arrested Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder, along with several lobbyists, on July 21 on charges that the group used $60 million of funds provided by the monopoly utility FirstEnergy Corp. Tags: electric utilities FirstEnergy Southern Company Entergy Corp exelon
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 20, 2020
Read time: 3 mins When a new Massachusetts think tank housed at Tufts University launched earlier this year , Boston-based media described it as a “ CBO -like center” (referring to the Congressional Budget Office) that would offer an “independent analysis” of proposed state policy and legislation.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Read time: 11 mins In 2005, Deb Evans and her husband Ron Schaaf bought a piece of property in Klamath County, Oregon, where they hoped to build a house and selectively harvest timber on the land. A decade and a half — and two White House administrations — later, there’s still no pipeline. They saw it as a long-term investment.
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