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• Petra Nova: Carbon Capture Failure Returns?

  8 de febrero, puesto en línea por Newswire Editor
  Bloomberg is reporting that the overhyped carbon capture project known as Petra Nova may be coming back online. The Texas facility, touted as the ‘world’s largest carbon capture’ project, closed in 2020, after repeated failures. Food & Water Watch Policy Director Jim Walsh issued the following (...)

• Green Groups Defend Biden Decision to Delay Oil and Gas Drilling Leases

  
  8 de febrero, puesto en línea por Julia Conley — Earthjustice, Fossil fuels, Friends of the earth, Joe biden, Wyoming, Interior department, Oil drilling, Western environmental law center, Oil and gas drilling
  More than a dozen groups intervened in a case in Wyoming on Wednesday to defend the Biden administration's decision to postpone the sale of oil and gas leases in the state, arguing that numerous court ruling and settled laws have affirmed the U.S. Interior Department is free to determine when (...)

• Sanders, Senate Dems Invite Schultz to Testify About Starbucks’ Labor Law Violations

  
  8 de febrero, puesto en línea por Kenny Stancil
  Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Tuesday invited Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to testify about the coffee giant's "lack of compliance with federal labor laws." All 10 Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) joined Sanders, who (...)

• The GOP Will Be Zero Help When It Comes to Helping Working Families

  
  8 de febrero, puesto en línea por Karen Dolan
  President Joe Biden took full advantage of his State of the Union address to celebrate his administration’s victories for hard-working U.S. families and set the tone for progress and possibility for the next two years. While the country is still suffering from high but easing inflation and the (...)

• Regional Groups Demand Gov. DeWine Request Federal Aid in Response to Tristate Chemical Disaster

  8 de febrero, puesto en línea por Newswire Editor
  River Valley Organizing and neighboring community organizing groups in the tristate area released the statements below in regards to the train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line. The accident caused the release of vinyl chloride and an explosion that left residents in need of (...)