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imageKlamath Riverkeeper Leads 35 Groups in Battle to Clean the Watershed
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by Dan Bacher
The Klamath Riverkeeper organization made its debut at a meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento on October 25....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 2:59pm PST
textFish Group Sues Department of Water Resources For Taking Endangered Salmon by Dan Bacher
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance opened a new offensive in the battle to save the Delta when it sued the State of California for failure to protect endangered salmon and Delta smelt....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 12:52pm PST
textJoin California Safe Schools & Tell EPA Pesticide Labels Should Identify ALL Ingredients! by California Sage Schools
Our national pesticide law only requires that certain ingredients in a pesticide (called the active ingredients) be identified on the label. All the others are misleadingly called inert ingredients, and are not identified. These same ingredients escape from most of the testing and evaluation required for active ingredients. They're...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 5:51pm PDT
textIndy Tests of Dust Fallout Point to Toxic Fingerprint of Troubled Berkeley Steel Plant by ecology center repo
New independent tests of dust fallout from the West Berkeley neighborhood surrounding Pacific Steel Casting Company (PSC) point to the known toxic fingerprint of the troubled facility. Frustrated by the company's failure to release a legally mandated Health Risk Assessment, which required tests of pollution sources at PSC, community members decided to do their own tests....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 8:13pm PDT
textJoin Pesticide Watch in protesting ChemLawn's pesticides 10/26 by Refuse to Use ChemLawn!!
Sacramento Valley residents are already exposed to enough pesticides. We certainly don't need individual homeowners adding known carcinigens to the neighborhood by using ChemLawn toxins. Protest ChemLawn in Sacramento 10/26 @ 11 am, ChemLawn headquarters; 1700 N. Market Blvd. # 103.....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 6:02pm PDT
imageAction Alert: Rally To Clean Up The Klamath on October 25, 12:30 pm
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by Dan Bacher
Don't miss the rally to clean the Klamath in Sacramento on October 25 at 12:30 pm....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 4:47pm PDT
textInEnTec medwaste incinerator returns to Red Bluff despite community opposition by Sacramento Valley Earth First!er
Tehama County community activists show support for Greenaction attorneys battling InEnTec's lawsuit against Tehama County Hearing Board for revoking their permit for a dioxin spewing plasma arc medwaste incinerator.....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 3:10pm PDT
textDec. 7 - Day in Solidarity with Green Scare Targets by GreenScare.org
The term Green Scare refers to the Red Scares of the early twentieth century, made famous by the McCarthy hearings and the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Green Scare demonstrates a similar systematic criminalization of dissent as the U.S. government is using all its tactics (e.g., grand juries, specialized legislation, paid agents provacateurs) to target the radical environmental and animal rights movements, those who publicly support them, and others who struggle for a healthy, ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 10:38pm PDT
imageKlamath River News: Oct. 20, '06
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by Klamath Riverkeeper repost
Klamath River News * TWO STATES TO ADDRESS KLAMATH RIVER TROUBLES, * VICTORY FOR KLAMATH RIVER SALMON, * KLAMATH SALMON LIMITS MAY BE EASED....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 8:42pm PDT
imageBerkeley Bike Bridge Protest Draws attention to Global Warming
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by Dan McMullan
Members of the Berkeley group Friends For A Healthy Planet draw attention to Global Warming with Bike Bridge Banner...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 11:06am PDT
textJudge's Decision Paves Way For Klamath Dam Removal  by Dan Bacher
The momentum for Klamath Dam removal is building. An administrative law judge recently ruled in favor of fish passage requirements sought by federal fishery agencies, paving the way for the removal of four PacifiCorp dams....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 11:03am PDT
textTue Dec 5 7pm Lecture & Book Signing for "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching" Oakland by Dr. Gregger.
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Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 12:32pm PDT
audioFSRN: Lettuce Recall Prompts Calls For More Oversight of California Produce Industry (audio/mpeg 4.0MB) by Vinny Lombardo
Last month's outbreak of E-Coli contaminated spinach, which killed three, and sickened 199 others in the US, has many consumers on edge about food born pathogens. It was the ninth deadly E. coli outbreak from leafy greens that originated in California's Salinas Valley over the last decade. Another e.coli scare occurred this week when Salinas-based Nunes Co. recalled some 8,500 cartons of its Foxy brand 'Green Leaf Lettuce' from seven states. FSRN's Vinny Lombardo reports on the problems with ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 10:55am PDT
textAlexander Declares War Against Liberty Quarry by Stewart A. Alexander
Today Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, is recruiting Californians statewide to stop the plans to open one of the largest open surface mines in the United States. Alexander says this is a war to stop Granite Construction and Liberty Quarry, to save lives, to protect our environment and our future....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 7:33pm PDT
textTHIRD COMMUNITY MEETING REGARDING HARRISON CORRIDOR TRAFFIC ISSUES by via list
DATE: Thursday, October 12, 2006 TIME: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. LOCATION: Veterans' Building, 200 Grand Avenue, 1st Floor Lounge...
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 1:06pm PDT
textTell Fish and Game: No Lead Ammo in Condor Habitat! by Center for Biological Diversity
The California Fish and Game Commission is meeting this Wednesday, October 11 to review state game hunting regulations, and now is the time to tell it to protect one of the world’s most endangered species. Please help us send a strong message to finally end the use of lead ammunition in the range of the critically endangered California Condor!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 10:05am PDT
textClapper Rail Videotaped In Front of Proposed Monster Soccer Complex on Gallinas Creek by brightpathvideo
On Oct 7, 2006, brightpathvideo filmed a clapeer rail at the site of a proposed indoor soccer complex. Video on http://GallinasCReek.org...
Posted: Sun, Oct 8, 2006 12:05pm PDT
textKlamath River News: Oct. 6, '06 by KRN repost
* PACIFICORP LOSES CHALLENGE OF FISH LADDERS OVER DAMS, * REGULATORS CLING TO KLAMATH DAMS, * OREGON OFFICIALS VOTE TO REMOVE CHILOQUIN DAM. * COMMENT PERIOD NOW OPEN ON KLAMATH DAMS...
Posted: Sat, Oct 7, 2006 11:30am PDT
textSan Francisco Oil Awareness Monthly Meeting by Dennis Brumm
Monthly meeting of San Francisco Oil Awareness, an organization dedicated to the study of the potential effects of oil depletion, commonly known as "Peak Oil."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 10:20pm PDT
textWe can't FERC This Up - by Leaf G. Hillmnan, Karuk Tribe by Dan Bacher
Here's an excellent column by Leaf Hillman about the latest developments in the the relicensing process of PacifiCorp's dams....
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 4:26pm PDT
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