Environment – Page 162 – People's World

Utility workers say job-killing FirstEnergy could cause another big blackout

August 16, 2013 By PAI

The corporation that caused the blackout of 2003, FirstEnergy, is about to shut two power plants in western Pennsylvania, destroying hundreds of jobs and putting the region's power grid at risk, according to the Utility Workers...

United Mine Workers of America reaches settlement with Patriot Coal

August 12, 2013 By Special to People’s World

"After several weeks of nearly around-the-clock negotiations, I believe we have reached something that can be taken to the membership for ratification."

Documents expose new ALEC scheme to kill clean energy

August 8, 2013 By John Wojcik

"It is clear ALEC is working in secret to push state policies in an extreme right direction, but working families are standing up to this agenda."

California inspectors afraid to go after marijuana-growing polluters

August 1, 2013 By Tracie Cone

Marijuana is the state's biggest cash crop with an estimated $14 billion in legal and illegal sales annually.

Alberta oil leak into week 10 – can it be stopped?

July 26, 2013 By Blake Skylar

Nine weeks ago, oil near a tar sands extraction site in Alberta, Canada, began to leak and ooze from the ground, blackening vegetation and killing wildlife, and it shows no signs of stopping.