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Jul. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Keystone xl, Prashanth kamalakanthan
Coming off of the freakish extreme weather across the country the past several months, people are anxious for a break from the punishing weather and looking forward to a calmer July. Climate scientists, meanwhile, haven’t provided much solac...
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Jun. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Prashanth kamalakanthan
A short piece appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, quietly noting that one of the three regional Army Corps of Engineers offices reviewing TransCanada’s federal permit application to build the Keystone XL pipeline through Oklahoma and ...
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Jun. 4, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Prashanth kamalakanthan
There’s been a lot of news lately about risky genetically engineered animals in the queue for federal review. British biotechnology firm Oxitec continues to pursue permission to release its genetically engineered mosquitoes into the Florida ...
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May. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Prashanth kamalakanthan
The public has reached a strong verdict on the billions of dollars of subsidies that our government hands annually to fossil fuel corporations making historic profits: end them. According to one recent poll, seventy percent of the public oppo...
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May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Prashanth kamalakanthan
Activists from a broad coalition of environmental groups including Friends of the Earth, Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity, Ocean Conservancy and Alaska Wilderness League, converged yesterday in front of the White House to demand that Pr...
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