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Caroline Selle

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Caroline is a freelance writer focusing on race, class, gender, and the environment. A 2012 graduate of St. Maryโ€™s College of Maryland, she wrote her senior thesis on the Keystone XL. Caroline has worked for the US Climate Action Network, the Global Campaign for Climate Action, the American Wind Energy Association, and the Energy Action Coalition. Currently, she blogs about her ethical living experiments atย www.zerowastegirl.com.

us/Twenty Five Arrested at Anti-Fracking Protest in Washington, DC
ByCaroline Selle
onJul 14, 2014 @ 17:39 PDT

Twenty-five anti-fracking and climate activists were arrested this morning in front of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters in Washington D.C. The arrests took place during ...
us/Activists Prepare July 13 Cove Point Protest, Lawsuits To Fight LNG Exports
ByCaroline Selle
onJul 12, 2014 @ 10:22 PDT

Gas export terminals might be the new oil pipelines. Taking a leaf out of Keystone XL protestorsโ€™ playbooks, organizers have scheduled a Washington, D.C. rally to โ€œStop Fracked Gas Exportsโ€ on Sund...
us/Maryland At High Risk of Water Contamination From Fracking, Independent Assessment Finds
ByCaroline Selle
onFeb 13, 2014 @ 16:27 PST

An independent assessment commissioned by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Citizen Shale, two Maryland environmental groups, warns hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the state would pose a...
us/Fisherman Fighting Dominion Cove Point LNG Export Terminal Worried About Explosions, Long-Term Impacts
ByCaroline Selle
onFeb 4, 2014 @ 05:00 PST

Pete Ide probably isnโ€™t the first person youโ€™d expect to oppose the Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. ย ย ย  โ€œFirst of all, I have to be frank,โ€ he says. โ€œI depend on fossil fu...
us/Maryland Residents Fight Cove Point LNG Export Plans That Threaten To Turn Area Into โ€œIndustrial Siteโ€
ByCaroline Selle
onJan 28, 2014 @ 11:06 PST

When Jean Marie Neal and her husband moved to Calvert County, Maryland, she knew natural gas was imported nearby at the Dominion Cove LNGย plant.ย  โ€œWe did not object,โ€ Neal says, โ€œbecause we knew at...
us/Carbon Emissions And Financial Risk Concentrated In 90 Top Emitters Responsible For 60% Of Emissions
ByCaroline Selle
onDec 16, 2013 @ 14:56 PST

A survey releasedย last week indicates many major institutional investors, such as retirement funds and insurance companies, are putting their investments at risk by neglecting to address the negati...
us/Nobel Women's Initiative Report Explores Tar Sands Expansion Plans From The Perspective of Local Women
ByCaroline Selle
onNov 14, 2013 @ 05:01 PST

A year ago, six female Nobel laureates set out on a nine-day trek across Alberta and British Columbia to find out how Canadaโ€™s tar sands expansion is uniquely impacting the lives ofย women. The resu...
us/Poland Partners with Coal and Oil Corporate Sponsors for COP19 Climate Conference
ByCaroline Selle
onSep 18, 2013 @ 14:49 PDT

On Tuesday, the Polish Government - host of the UNFCCC COP19 international climate negotiations - announced twelve corporate partners of the conference. While the Polish Environment Ministry sugges...
us/Corruption in the Pipeline: A Timeline of Keystone XL Misinformation
ByCaroline Selle
onAug 9, 2013 @ 07:00 PDT

Though plagued by corruption, the Keystone XL (KXL) โ€œzombie pipelineโ€ refuses to die. While firsthand accounts from front line communities in Alberta, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas have galvaniz...
us/Alberta Tar Sands Blowout Threatens Boreal Forest, Wasn't Disclosed Until Months Later
ByCaroline Selle
onJul 27, 2013 @ 11:00 PDT

Tar sands oil has been spilling in Albertaโ€™s boreal forests for months, and according to a government scientist, neither industry nor government knows how to stop it. Four โ€œoil blowoutsโ€ ย left 34 t...