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Canada’s Increasing Tar Sands Emissions Will Cancel Out Carbon Cuts Elsewhere

12:15 pm in Business & Politics, canada, carbon emissions, pollution, tar sands by TreeHugger

tar sands photo photo: sbamueller/CC BY-SA A new report from Canada's environment ministry shows that emissions from expanding tar sands production and use will double by 2020 and will overwhelm emission cuts in energy production elsewhere. This will entirely undermine Canada's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions 17% by 2020, as pledged under the Copenhagen Accord. So much ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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U.S. Chamber Launches Effort To Support Bringing Dirty Tar Sands Oil Down South

12:37 am in Business & Politics, chamber of commerce, News, oil consumption, tar sands by TreeHugger

Keystone pipeline.png photo via dirtyoilsands.org The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has long served as a brake on progress when it comes to creating a new economy that is fueled by renewable energy. The secretive organization (it doesn't reveal its membership) has opposed climate and energy action at every turn, and now it has its sights on the Keystone XL pipeline, a controversial proposed 1700 mile-long pipeline that would carry bitumen from Canada's tar sands all the way to Texas. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Democratic Leaders Excoriate Congressional Republicans, Say This is the "Most Anti-environment House in the History of Congress"

11:08 pm in Business & Politics, congress, News, republicans, tar sands, waxman-markey by TreeHugger

ed-markey-best-of-green.jpg Rep. Ed Markey, photo via flickr Many greens, including me, had big problems with Waxman-Markey, the failed cap and trade bill that would have finally priced carbon but also given a lifeline to the coal industry. Whatever your feelings for the bill, the congressmen behind it, Ed Markey (MA) and Henry Waxman (CA), have always been stalwart defenders of the environment. That's why they have...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Seven Senators Write To Clinton To Warn Against Proposed Massive 1,700 Mile Pipeline

1:41 pm in Business & Politics, pipeline, tar sands by TreeHugger

Keystone pipeline.png mage: Ray Bodden via flickr This July, the heat is being turned up on TransCanada, the Canadian corporation vying for the right to build a 1,700 mile pipeline, known as the Keystone XL, through the US all the way to the Gulf. The wind might finally be at the back of the landowners and environmentalists who for years have warned that the pipeline, which will carry bitumen from Canada's carbon bomb known as the tar sands, is a threat to fresh water supplies and the climate. Just this week, the Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Environmental Leaders Call For Civil Disobedience to Stop the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

9:00 am in activism, pollution, Take Action, tar sands by TreeHugger

stop the tar sands photo photo: Diane Worth/Creative Commons Dear Friends, This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age--it's serious stuff. The short version is we want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested. The full version goes like this:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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