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Martinez Crude By Rail Resolution (Presented 5/7/2014)

To: Mayor Schroder and Members of the Martinez City Council From: Jim Neu/ Martinez Environmental Group Subject: Opposition to Rail Transport of Hazardous Crude OIL through Martinez and the East Bay Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution opposing the transport of hazardous … Continue reading

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Help Pass SB 1132 – Fracking Moratorium

Senators Mitchell and Leno have introduced SB 1132, a bill that will impose a moratorium on fracking until scientific studies are done that show fracking will not harm our environment and health. SB 1132 has made it through two committees. … Continue reading

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Pope holds up No Fracking t-shirt

Yep, this is a real photo!

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Atmospheric CO2 levels last month averaged what a year ago was unprecedented in human history

By Laurence Lewis   Daily Kos The end of April has arrived, and with it, the record for the first month in human history with an average carbon dioxide level in Earth’s atmosphere above 400 parts per million has been … Continue reading

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Description of Meg Resolution Presentation by Bill Nichols

By Guy Cooper May 11, 2014 http://martinezgazette.com/archives/14424

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Train hauling crude oil derails on banks of South Platte River

By Bruce Finley   The Denver Post    POSTED: 05/09/2014 http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_25732989/train-hauling-crude-oil-derails-banks-south-platte?source=email

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Pittsburg School Board unanimously passes resolution against WesPac

Originally posted on Pittsburg Defense Council:
Wednesday night, the Pittsburg Unified School District school board voted 5-0 to approve a resolution that calls the WesPac project “unequivocally contrary to public health and safety and beyond mitigation” and furthermore asking that…

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Hazardous Cargo: Shipping Highly Flammable Bakken Crude Oil by Rail

Thursday, 08 May 2014 By Adam Federman Earth Island Journal http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23568-hazardous-cargo-shipping-highly-flammable-bakken-crude-oil-by-rail#.U2vjt25-d_E.email

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Barack Obama’s emissions plan comes under new line of attack

By Suzanne Goldenberg  theguardian.com, Friday 2 May 2014 Documents reveal co-ordinated campaign by influential lobbyists working to block the regulation of power plant emissionsl http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/02/barack-obamas-emissions-plan-comes-under-new-line-of-attack?CMP=ema_565

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Kinder Morgan pipeline application says oil spills can have both negative and positive effects

BY PETER O’NEIL, VANCOUVER SUN APRIL 30, 2014http://www.edmontonjournal.com/touch/story.html?id=9793673

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