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Down To Earth archive for Aug. 4, 2011

THURSDAY, AUG. 4, 2011

Fake twitter accounts support tar sands

How low can you go? An employee of the American Petroleum Institute, which supports the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline, has apparently been setting up multiple fake Twitter accounts to give the illusion of grassroots support for their devilish enterprise. Brant Olson at the Rainforest Action…

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"Fowl Wind"

Tuesday's Daily Show episode had to be one of the funniest I've seen in a while. The topic: Wind energy in Florida. A wind turbine project is facing opposition from a group of "tree-hugging hippie conservationists" called the United Waterfowlers Association. They are actually hunters,…

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