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Draft of Proposed Fracking Regulations Finally Exists
We missed this over the holidays, but the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation's Division of Water Pollution Control now has a draft of proposed...Read More Published 01/27/2012 at 12:06 PM 0 comments -
United Mountain Defense Hosts Teach-In Tomorrow
Who doesn't want to learn more about mountaintop removal coal mining practices? Well, now you can! Tomorrow, during lunch, United Mountain Defense is hosting a teach-in...Read More Published 01/25/2012 at 12:31 PM 0 comments -
Get Your Green Energy Rebates and Advance the Socialist Cause
The city of Knoxville wants to help you defray the costs of your solar panel or approved energy efficient appliances purchases. But first you've got...Read More Published 01/10/2012 at 10:11 AM 0 comments -
Brown Bag-It on Climate Change
Wednesday at noon, you can join Metro Pulse managing editor Jesse Fox Mayshark (aka, me) for a discussion of James Hoggan's book Climate Cover-Up. The...Read More Published 09/20/2011 at 11:21 AM 0 comments -
Lamar Alexander Sponsors a Bill We Like?
Sen. Lamar Alexander must really like his Nissan Leaf, because he's just introduced bipartisan legislation to encourage more people to develop and buy electric vehicles:...Read More Published 05/11/2011 at 12:04 PM 0 comments -
TVA Gets Literary
We meant to blog about this yesterday, but we got distracted by other work, and then there was the sunshine, and then there were all...Read More Published 03/18/2011 at 11:12 AM 0 comments -
Fighting the "Green Dragon" of Environmentalism
Entertaining story in today's Tennessean about an anti-environmentalist evangelical Christian movement, which has come up with an admittedly awesome name for environmentalists: the Cult of...Read More Published 01/04/2011 at 3:35 PM 0 comments -
Coal Mining Permits Get Tougher
As a result of lawsuit filed by some local environmental groups, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation will now require mining companies to obtain...Read More Published 09/10/2010 at 2:26 PM 0 comments -
EV Project Electrifies Knoxville
Guess they weren't kidding around when they designated Knoxville an official test market for the Nissan Leaf electric car a while back--now we're going to...Read More Published 06/25/2010 at 2:54 PM 0 comments -
Army Corps. of Engineers Suspends NWP 21
Today the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers announced it was suspending Nationwide Permit 21, a general permit that allows coal mining operations to push landfill...Read More Published 06/17/2010 at 11:52 AM 0 comments
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