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Public Health Groups Sue EPA Over Carbon Monoxide Standards NEWS RELEASE
Public Health Groups File Suit to Strengthen Nationwide Clean Air Standards for Carbon Monoxide
Children Endangered by Outdated Carbon Monoxide Standards, Bush Administration Footdragging...
Posted: Tue, Jul 17, 2007 3:38pm PDT
Hearing on Dick Cheney's Role in Klamath Fish Kill Set for July 31 in D.C. 
The Congressional hearing regarding the role that Dick Cheney played in Klamath Basin decisions leading to the fish kill of 2002 is scheduled for July 31....
Posted: Mon, Jul 16, 2007 8:16am PDT
Wanna SHUT DOWN the largest fossil fuel development project in our region?? This August 8-14 hundreds of social justice and environmental activists from around the west coast of North America will be convening near the mouth of the Columbia River for 6 days of low impact living and high impact action against the fossil fuel industry - the West Coast Convergence for Climate Action....
Posted: Sun, Jul 15, 2007 11:38am PDT
Mass Bird die-off After Military Exercise in Queensland World Heritage Area There are initial reports from Australia of mass bird and bat dieoffs in the area of the Shoalwater Bay military training area, on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. The area recently hosted the Talisman Sabre military exercise involving nearly 30,000 US and Australian military personnel and using live ammunition including phosphorus bombs....
Posted: Fri, Jul 13, 2007 4:39pm PDT
"Bookin' for Daniel": A Marathon Run for Daniel McGowan Wednesday, July 11, 2007 :
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Posted: Fri, Jul 13, 2007 7:23am PDT
Biotech GMO/GE food tested on animals. Ethics? Recent release of evidence of toxicity of GMO/GE biotech food products icludes both animal and human exposure results. We need to question ethics in this debate over the future of human food products.....
Posted: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 1:00pm PDT
THIS AUGUST: Convergences 4 Climate Action -- Down w/ the Fossil Fuel Empire & Up w/ Life! 
In less than one month -- August 8-14th -- regional North American Convergences for Climate Action will bring hundreds of social justice and environmental activists together to fight the fossil fuel empire and create truly sustainable, bio-regionally appropriate and community-based responses to climate change. The events on the West Coast and in the Southeast are modeled after the inspiring 2006 Climate Camp in the UK, which will reemerge this year at Heathrow Airport from August 14...
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 11:58pm PDT
Labor Leaders Back ‘Cap and Trade’ Plan to Cut Carbon Emissions Wednesday, July 11, 2007 : New bipartisan legislation that could significantly cut U.S. greenhouse gases represents "the best approach to address the problem of global climate change," says AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard L. Trumka. The Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007 was introduced today by Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) to reduce carbon dioxide emissions....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 6:54pm PDT
Anti-Nculear Activist and Spritual Leader Corbin Harney Passes Away (audio/mpeg 2.9MB) Corbin Harney, spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone passed away yesterday of cancer, on Turtle Island, Santa Rosa, California. Harney led the successful resistence to stop the Divine Strake, a nuclear testing plan on Shoshone Lands in Nevada earlier this year....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 10:52am PDT
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming Wednesday, July 11, 2007 :
As the peak of hurricane season approaches, we speak with leading science journalist Chris Mooney about how global warming relates to the frequency and ferocity of hurricanes. We also ask him about White House interference in climate science and Al Gore’s recent campaign to address global warming....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 7:29am PDT
James Ridgeway: True North: Big Oil in the Arctic Tuesday, July 10, 2007 : Last week Shell announced it would send a fleet of ships into the Beaufort Sea to launch an oil drilling program. It is speculated that beneath the Beaufort Sea lie 8 billion barrels of oil and 30 trillion cubic feet of gas. The drilling is to take place 30 miles off the Alaskan coast, where despite protests from local communities the US Minerals Management Service OK'd the project....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 7:11am PDT
Stumptown Earth First! Action Camp, July 19th to 23rd! 
On Mt. Hood, logging proceeds apace. And "apace" means devastation. It means the death of watersheds, ecosystems. It means economic and ecological disaster. Learn how to stop it. The action camp will run from Thursday, July 19th, to Monday, July 23rd....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 6:45am PDT
Anti-Nuclear Activist Corbin Harney Passed Away Corbin Harney, Western Shonshone spiritual leader and anti-nuclear activist passed away on July 10th following a long battle with cancer. He will be deeply missed by many. Corbin calls upon people to never give up and continue on with their struggle against nuclear weapons proliferation by the U.S. military....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 3:13pm PDT
The Revolution Starts Under the Sink Tuesday, July 10, 2007 : When it comes to accepting global warming and being eco-friendly, there’s a generation gap, notes NAM contributor Asya Pikovsky, whose family hails from the Ukraine. Eco-friendliness is second nature to the young. Pikovsky is an intern for New America Media and a student at Bowdoin College....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 10:52am PDT
West Coast Convergence for Climate Action! Saturday, July 7, 2007 :
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Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 5:07pm PDT
June 28, 2007 Prison Dispatch from Jeffrey Free Luers 
Dear Friends,
Jeff has written a new dispatch which, among other things, discusses the status of his appeal and his post-prison possibilities. Please read below and share with others....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 12:05pm PDT
Don Fitz: When Building Green Ain't So Green Thursday, July 5, 2007 :Look at the web site for the next green builder you see on TV or in the daily paper. Does the site show plans for a home with trees and no parking garage? Or, is it another house plan that tells you how many cars the garage will hold and says nothing about trees? Many green architects and builders are doing their best to create environmentally friendly homes....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:35am PDT
New Rule Would Lower the Bar Again on Killing Endangered Wolves in Northern Rockies 
BOISE, Id. – A new draft rule from the Bush Administration would once again diminish protections for wolves under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and threaten endangered wolf recovery efforts in the northern Rockies. The new rule would significantly broaden the circumstances under which wolves can be killed allowing the states to kill more than half of the approximately 1,300 wolves in the region today prior to their delisting. The new rule is ardently opposed by wildlife conservation group...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 6:47pm PDT
UK: Two Arrested at Cambridge GM potato picnic 
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Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 8:35am PDT
7/6: Radio Program about International Permaculture Conference 8 & 9 Radio Interview about IPC8 & 9,Live on Friday July 6, 2007, 9am-10am PST, also streaming live at www.kcsb.org, Santa Barbara California USA (International Permaculture Conference & Convergence)...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 6:56pm PDT
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