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Activists protest Russian oil tankers as they idle at New York-area ports
Environmentalists are watching ports in New York and New Jersey while the United States prepares to halt the intake of Russian fossil fuels.
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Jake Offenhartz
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Want A Straw In New York City? Soon, You May Have To Ask
A new bill passed by the City Council aims to reduce the use of plastic straws.
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Danny Lewis
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So Long, Indian Point Nuclear Plant. Hello, More Fossil Fuels.
Some environmentalists celebrated the closure due to the energy plant’s proximity to New York City, but it has sinister immediate implications for the state’s climate goals.
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Sydney Pereira
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Three Hundred Gallons Of Diesel Fuel Spilled In Times Square Hotel
Emergency personnel are responding to a major diesel fuel spill inside the basement of a Midtown building.
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Jake Offenhartz
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Trump Owns Stock In Dakota Access Pipeline Backers
He also got hefty campaign contributions from a chief executive of a company behind the oil pipeline.
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Nathan Tempey
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Newtown Creek Gets $16 Million From A Company That Helped Ruin It
Newtown Creek, the only place in Brooklyn where you can get a gratis black mayonnaise facial, has been awarded a $16 million settlement in exchange for the decades of environmental atrocities wrought upon its waters.
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Lauren Evans
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ExxonMobil Settlement Will Kick $19.5 Million To Greenpoint For Environmental Projects
Greenpoint is about to get a $19.5 million cash infusion to help mitigate some of the damage caused by the gallons upon gallons (up to 30 million, actually) of oil that seeped across the neighborhood during its former life housing Brooklyn's refineries.
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Lauren Evans
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Hugo Chavez, President Of Venezuela, Dies At 58
Earlier today, the vice president accused the U.S. and other countries of poisoning him with cancer.
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Jen Chung
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[UPDATE] Video: Shell "Oil Rig" Breaks, Sprays Liquor All Over Fancy People
Listen to the collective gasp and the crash of monocles that is reserved for wasted liquor and public embarrassment, not the poisoning of nature by millions of gallons of spilled crude. Metaphors!
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Christopher Robbins
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Lockerbie Bomber, Predicted To Die In 2009, Is Dead Now
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 were killed (189 of them Americans), has died, according to his brother.
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Jen Chung
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