May 23, 2013
damascus citizens for sustainability
clean water, air & land are basic human rights
By Lenny Bernstein and Juliet Eilperin
The Washington Post published: April 22
The Environmental Protection Agency objected Monday to the State Department’s latest review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, suggesting that more work must be done before the Obama administration can determine whether to approve the 1,179-mile northern leg … Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate release 3/25/13
Media: New Study Exposes How Natural Gas Isn’t the Clean Fossil Fuel It’s Hyped up to Be
Actual Methane Emissions Measured in Manhattan Showing No Advantage to Natural Gas: Two Reports
Report on a Preliminary Investigation of Ground-Level ambient Methane Levels
in … Continue reading
Media: New Study Exposes How Natural Gas Isn’t the Clean Fossil Fuel It’s Hyped up to Be
This Final Report, commissioned by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, concludes that there is no advantage to natural gas over coal or oil, in terms of climate impact. Download the Final Report. … Continue reading
The whole story – both reports and other media coverage.
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate release 3/25/13
MEDIA: New Study Exposes How Natural Gas Isn’t the Clean Fossil Fuel It’s Hyped up to Be (Nora Eisenberg for Alternet); The Methane Beneath Our Feet, (Bill McKibben in The New … Continue reading
Explains the corporate money-emissions basis of why unconventional gas drilling is so bad and how the hold on the American consciousness (or lack there of) is fueled.
James Hansen’s eye-opening article, … Continue reading
A message from Bill McKibben of 350.org:
Friends,
Today was the day. Finally, powerfully, decisively — the movement to stop climate change has come together.
This was the biggest climate change rally in US history. By our count, 50,000 people gathered by the Washington Monument and then marched past the … Continue reading
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/08/1561571/oil-gas-number-two/
Reporting for the first time on GHGs from petroleum and natural gas systems, the EPA this week said that the oil and gas sector ranked second in emissions to power plants, releasing 225 million metric … Continue reading
“Climate change is the great moral issue since apartheid, and we need the same kind of tools to bring it to people’s attention.” – Desmond Tutu
This event is … Continue reading
Scientists are once again reporting alarmingly high methane emissions from an oil and gas field, underscoring questions about the environmental benefits of the boom in natural-gas production … Continue reading
CLICK HERE to read the letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has let the … Continue reading
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