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NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union on October 17 filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking the government’s policy for notifying criminal defendants that they were monitored under the FISA Amendments Act, the 2008 law that authorized the NSA to continue its warrantless wiretapping of Americans’ international communications. The ACLU challenged that law, but the Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit in February because the plaintiffs could not prove they had been spied on. Th...

El Niño is likely to become more intense with climate change, and produce drier conditions for Australia and the Western Pacific, with increases in rainfall in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific in the mid to late twenty first century, according to new research....

Washington, D.C. — As federal policy makers decide on rules for fracking on public lands, a new report (see PDF) calculates the toll of this dirty drilling on our environment, including 280 billion gallons of toxic wastewater generated by fracking in 2012 -- enough to flood all of Washington, D.C., in a 22-foot deep toxic lagoon. The Environment America Research & Policy Center report, "Fracking by the Numbers," is the first to measure the damaging footprint of fracking to date....

Tenth Fur Farm Liberation This Summer! 250 or More Mink Liberated in Grand Meadow, Minnesota...

In November, the California Coastal Commission will be deciding whether or not to permit a massive ocean desalination facility on our coast – the Poseidon-Huntington Beach Desalination Project. This proposed project is just one of numerous ocean desalination projects proposed for the coast in California....

Rapid City, South Dakota The Lakota People’s Law Project has just issued “Who is Watching the Watch Dog– A Critique of NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos’ Egregious Errors in Attacking Laura Sullivan and Amy Waters’ Reporting on Native Foster Care”. The report alleges that the former founding editor of Wall Street Journal Americas and now NPR Ombudsman’s 80 page report written over 22 months made six very serious errors which invalidate his findings. The data justify the original airing o...

San Juan, Puerto Rico and New York – The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and four legal and human rights groups filed a petition on September 23 before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against the United States for severe human rights violations in the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. For over 60 years, the United States Navy bombed and used biological and chemical warfare on Vieques as part of its military practices, causing decades of continuous contamination of the land, s...

After intense public pressure, the Food and Drug Administration has announced (see PDF) it is withdrawing approval of 97 percent of the arsenic compounds used in animal feed. The FDA decision comes in response to a 2009 scientific petition and a lawsuit filed earlier this year by a coalition of food-safety, agriculture, public-health and environmental groups. Arsenic in animal feed ends up in chicken and other meats, posing a danger to people and contaminating the environment and water suppli...