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Over 100 People At Amherst No Keystone XL Vigil

(Amherst, MA) On Monday, February 3, 2014, people around the country joined protests in 230 cities demanding that Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama block permission for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry polluting tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, across the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. Because of the heavy energy cost of tar sands oil production, the supra-polluting nature of the oil itself and its vast quantities, the Keystone XL as a conduit for its distribution has been identified as a major means of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and, as climatologist James Hanson has said, would represent “Game Over for the Climate.”

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Springfield… GREEN?

Turns out Springfield is one of the greenest places to live in Massachusetts according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley which found that population dense cites contribute less greenhouse gas emissions per person than all other areas in the US.

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