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Water
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Environmental Groups Call on EPA to Ban Diesel Use in Fracking
Washington, D.C. — National environmental groups today called on the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of diesel in hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' fluids, instead of issuing guidance for regulating the practice, following the agency's release of draft guidance. Diesel is currently used in fracking chemical cocktails and poses serious risks to drinking water sources. EPA guidance is not enough to protect families from benzene and other highly toxic chemicals contaminating underground drinking water sources.
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Read more: Call to Ban Diesel Use in Fracking
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Groups
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“A PEREGRINE ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL”
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Heyward Douglass |
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"A Peregrine on the Appalachian Trail" |
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 7:30pm |
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Unitarian Fellowship Hall on Pendleton Road, Clemson, South Carolina |
Free and open to the public!
Heyward Douglass' talk is sponsored by the Foothills Group of the Sierra Club.
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Read more: Meeting Announcement (June 5)
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Nuclear Energy
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NRC Schedules Meetings to Discuss 2011 Performance of Summer Nuclear Power Plant & Oversight of Construction of New Units
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US Nuclear Reculatory Commission |
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Meetings to discuss 2011 Performance of V.C. Summer Nuclear Power Plant & Construction of New Units |
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Thursday, May 24 at 5:30pm and 6:30pm |
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McCrorey-Liston Elementary School at 1978 State Highway 215 South, Blair, South Carolina |
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has scheduled two meetings for Thursday, May 24, to discuss the safety performance in 2011 of SCE&G’s V.C. Summer nuclear station and to explain the inspections and oversight process for the two new units being built near Jenkinsville, South Carolina, about 26 miles northwest of Columbia.
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Read more: NRC Meeting Announcement (May 24)
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Air Quality
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House Rubber Stamps Big Polluter Wish List, Leaving Clean Transportation and American Jobs At the Curb
Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives ignored a bipartisan, two year transportation bill approved by the Senate to pass a 90-day extension loaded with big polluter pet projects.
Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, issued the following statement in response:
“John Boehner and his House Republicans had a simple solution right under their noses: approve overwhelmingly bipartisan Senate legislation, improve our national infrastructure, and protect three million American jobs. Instead, in a desperate scramble to appease their big oil benefactors, they trampled over common-sense to rubber stamp a big polluter wish list.
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Read more: "I Love the Smell of Pollution in the Morning"
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