The first building at Facebook’s data center campus in Oregon, built on a high plain above the small town of Prineville. Image by http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/ By Rebecca Moss and Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican Facebook is courting support from the Public Service Company of New Mexico and state regulators to build a $250 million data center south [...]
by Paige Blankenbuehler "Being in an underground coal mine is like roaming around a city at night. By the dim light of a headlamp, miners peer down avenues speckled with lights that make coal seam tunnels look more like urban streets. A close-knit community has developed around an industry that has kept the lights on, above [...]
Getty By Timothy Cama - 07/09/16 01:37 PM EDT The Obama administration is fighting back against environmental activists and trying to blunt the impact of a massive campaign against federal oil and natural gas lease sales. Greens have tried to disrupt auctions for drilling rights on federal land and in offshore waters. In response, the [...]
Please help support our best wildlands! The Carson NF preliminary inventory identified wilderness quality lands in 57% of the forest. The evaluation phase of the Forest Plan only lists 4%. Please summit your comments today to support wilderness quality lands and wildlife in the Carson National Forest. To submit your comments email carsonplan@fs.fed.us.
Dustin Mulvaney, Alexander Gershenson, Ben Toscher Prepared for the Center for Biological Diversity & Friends of the Earth July 2016 Overview In this analysis we projected the “production horizons”- the number of years’ worth of remaining production - from currently leased federal fossil fuels using the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 2016 “reference case” for [...]
by Margaret Klein Salamon, originally published by The Climate Psychologist | MAY 10, 2016 Ed. note: The following is an excerpt from Margaret's new report: Leading the Public into Emergency Mode: A New Strategy for the Climate Movement. It is available as an Illustrated PDF or Text Only on Margaret's site here. Emergency Mode: Optimal Functioning [...]
by James Fenton (Photo: Daily Times file photo) FARMINGTON — A Houston-based energy industry advocacy group has appealed to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to reinstate a recently canceled oil and gas lease sale of parcels near Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Consumer Energy Alliance officials said the group collected 651 signatures from people in favor of [...]
The final New-Source Performance Standards are projected to reduce methane emissions by 510,000 short tons a year (equal to 460,000 metric tons), by 2025. By 2025, these methane reductions have the same 20-year climate benefits as: Burning 11 fewer coal-fired power plants every year Taking 8.5 million cars off the road every yeariv [...]
By Lyla Johnston "Sometimes it’s hard to imagine life without oppression when it’s all I’ve ever known. Roughly 60 percent of the Public Service Company of New Mexico’s energy is derived from coal-fired power plants. The coal for these plants is mined from beneath Navajo feet. The smoke from these plants fills Navajo lungs. The [...]
We would like to share some material about fracking with you hoping it to be useful to inform people about this topic. "Frack it!": <https://mx.boell.org/es/frack-it This app informs about fracking, the impacts and risks for the environment and public health. By playing different mini-games, opening up information cards and answering a quiz you´ll get to know [...]