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Illinois Chamber Beats Up An Asian Carp Straw Man: A Real Solution Will Create Jobs, Not Destroy Them

April 8, 2010

Posted by Thom Cmar in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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asiancarp, chamberofcommerce, greatlakes, henryhenderson, illinoischamber, invasivespecies, michigan, mikecox

Yesterday, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce released a report which found that an arbitrary, immediate, permanent closure of the navigational locks connecting the Chicago waterway system to Lake Michigan in an effort to stop big, hungry Asian carp from establishing...

American Municipal Power Does the Math: Cleaner Energy Can Be Cheaper Energy, Too

November 26, 2009

Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
americanmunicipalpower, AMP, AMP-ohio, coal, energy, midwest, ohio

I now have an extra reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, with yesterday's unexpected news that American Municipal Power ("AMP") has decided to cancel its plans to build a new dirty coal-fired power plant in southeastern Ohio.  AMP's proposal was...

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I grew up in a small city in southwestern Ohio.  My father’s father worked in...
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