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The Trash Incinerator Industry Is Trying To Tank A Massive Renewable-Energy Effort via Huffington Post

Advocates for the trash-incineration industry are trying to sink an effort to get nearly 1,500 cities behind 100 percent renewable energy, according to an email obtained by HuffPost. The U.S. Conference of Mayors, the largest nonpartisan coalition of city executives … Continue reading

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Mayors organize antinuclear forum via The Japan Times Online

Fifteen current and former mayors will hold a conference this month to lobby against nuclear plants, one of the mayors said. “We thought we should set up the conference before Kansai Electric Power Co. restarts its Oi nuclear plant” in … Continue reading

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Disaster left cities in limbo: mayors via The Japan Times Online

Speaking at the Global Conference for a Nuclear Free World symposium, Katsutaka Idogawa, mayor of Futaba, one of two towns hosting the doomed plant, said residents were forced to embark on a long journey the day the reactor cores melted … Continue reading

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