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    Tar Sands Tug-of-War

    by  • January 23, 2012 • Canada, International, U.S. • 3 Comments

    oil pipeline

    Immediately following Obama’s official thumbs down on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal, media, businesspeople, politicians and the public on both sides of the political coin began sounding off about the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of the decision. As a Greener Ideal reader I can take a swing in the dark at the [...]

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    Dirty air in Perry’s Texas from oil refineries

    by  • November 10, 2011 • U.S. • 0 Comments

    Texas Governor Rick Perry

    A recent feature on the residents of Port Arthur, Texas have found that the small town has some of the dirtiest air in the United States due to the concentration of oil refineries. As Texas has been under the control of Governor Rick Perry for almost 11 years, many are saying that the blame for [...]

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    Newt Gingrich discusses his Environmental Policy

    by  • November 9, 2011 • U.S. • 0 Comments

    Gingrish and Pelosi on the Environment

    In a recent interview on Fox, Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich had to backpedal on his stance on climate change – a topic which was spurred by his appearance in a commercial with then-Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi urging Americans to take action against climate change. The commercial, which you can watch below, was part of [...]

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    Barack Obama announces push for clean energy to “out-innovate” the rest of the world

    by  • May 7, 2011 • U.S. • 0 Comments

    This morning in his weekly address, President Obama announced a stronger push towards clean energy in order to reduce the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, and to allow Americans to “out-innovate and out-compete the rest of the world.” The President’s announcement came from the Allison Transmission plant in Indianapolis where hybrid technology for fuel [...]

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