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Gene Drives Are The Latest Disaster On the GMO Front Gene Drives may be a disaster in the making. Pro GMO activists often claim the technique is the ultimate solution while anti-GMO activists claim that the technique is the ultimate problem....
Posted: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 2:26pm PDT
Requiem for a Species This September 1st is the 100th anniversary of the death of the very last passenger pigeon. A species that people belieived could never go extinct but went from billions to zero in a few years....
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 12:14pm PDT
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Endangered CA Birds From Large-scale Desert Solar Project BLYTHE, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity on August 21 filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior for failing to protect Yuma clapper rails, which are endangered marsh birds, from being killed or injured by large-scale solar projects in the California and Arizona deserts....
Posted: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 10:54pm PDT
Obama Administration Stealthily OKs Expansion of Tar Sands Transport Through Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.— With no public input, the Obama administration has abruptly approved a scheme by Canadian tar sands giant Enbridge to sidestep the “presidential permit” and environmental review process for expanding its Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline. Enbridge had applied to double the capacity of the pipeline, also known as Line 67, that will put it on par with the amount of oil proposed for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline....
Posted: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 10:47pm PDT
Turtle Island Partners with Consumer Reports to Warn Seafood Eaters About Mercury Turtle Island Restoration Network Partners with Consumer Reports to Warn Seafood Eaters to Avoid Tuna & Swordfish....
Posted: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 1:53pm PDT
Calling for anti-capitalist bloc at the People's Climate March On September 20, 2014, Bill McKibben's 350.org and a host of other Green NGOs are calling (
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/a-call-to-arms-an-invitation-to-demand-action-on-climate-change-20140521 ) for a massive march through New York City to demand "the world we know is within our reach: a world with an economy that works for people and the planet. A world safe from the ravages of climate change. A world with good jobs, clean air, and healthy communities for everyone."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 1:41pm PDT
Big Oil Permanently Poisons 2 Million Gallons of California Water Each Day LOS ANGELES – At City Hall on August 13, City Councilmember Paul Koretz, Los Angeles residents and California climate and water experts called on Big Oil to stop wasting California’s water. During the worst drought in the state’s recent history, the oil and gas industry is permanently destroying millions of gallons of water and drilling deeper into the earth, threatening dwindling groundwater supplies by using fracking and other water-intensive extraction processes....
Posted: Sun, Aug 17, 2014 3:29am PDT
Obama Admin Finalizes Stronger Stream Buffers to Protect Imperiled Salmon from Pesticides The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized an agreement to restore no-spray buffer zones around waterways to protect imperiled salmon and steelhead from five toxic pesticides....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2014 1:27pm PDT
Federal Court Strikes Down Illegal Permit for Avenal Power Plant SAN FRANCISCO— The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down an illegal permit that would have allowed Avenal Power to build a new gas-fired power plant in Avenal, Calif. In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a permit for the project that illegally waived its need to comply with air quality safeguards. Had this permit gone through, the plant would have been built in one of the most polluted and economically disadvantaged areas of the San Joaquin Valley....
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2014 5:14pm PDT
Lawsuit Launched to Reinstate Protections for Endangered Sperm Whales Turtle Island Restoration Network and conservation groups today announced plans to file a lawsuit to reinstate rules designed to protect endangered sperm whales from deadly, mile-long drift gillnets in ocean waters off California....
Posted: Mon, Aug 11, 2014 2:30pm PDT
Deep Disappointment in Derrick Jensen's Transphobic DGR It really disturbs me that my once favorite "eco-warrior" author Derrick Jensen has turned on the trans community and is now promoting hatred against them instead of forging new allies to protect the wilderness. All that political energy directed against the trans community by Jensen et. al. is wasted, he could have used that voice to save forests from clearcutting, protect desert aquifers and many other needed battles. Now instead Jensen's "Deep Green Resistance" (DGR) is walking hand in han...
Posted: Sun, Aug 10, 2014 8:19am PDT
Drought Demands New Water Policy in Santa Cruz Water Supply Security Needs More that Baseline Options...
Posted: Sun, Aug 10, 2014 1:39am PDT
Chevron pressures the Richmond city council Chevron's freedom to pollute vs. Bay Area residents' right to breath...
Posted: Fri, Aug 8, 2014 11:56am PDT
The Prehistoric Huchiun Band of the Native Ohlone at Garrity Creek & Along San Pablo Bay An Examination of the Prehistoric Huchiun band of the Native Ohlone at Garrity Creek & the surrounding area of San Pablo Bay...
Posted: Thu, Aug 7, 2014 7:16pm PDT
PROTEST F-35 Fighter Jets In Vermont! They Will Use VT's Pine Trees For Missile Fuel! Not only will the F-35 strike fighter jets threaten Vermont's environment because they are being designed to be dual capable to carry nuclear bombs, but now there is another threat to Vermont if the U.S. Air Force bases F-35 jets there. Pine trees will be used for MISSILE FUEL!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 5, 2014 10:32am PDT
Save the pink river dolphin (Amazon/Brasil) The pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also known as boto, is being massacred in the Amazon/Brasil to be used as bait. Save the pink river dolphin! Sign the petition!...
Posted: Sun, Aug 3, 2014 7:42pm PDT
ACLU Santa Cruz County Renews Its Objection to Cowell Beach Curfew Public Fora Must Remain Public...
Posted: Sat, Aug 2, 2014 12:23pm PDT
Pa. Residents with Fracking-Related Health Complaints Urge Action from Attorney General Harrisburg, Pa. – On July 29, individuals from around Pennsylvania who had fracking-related health complaints ignored by the state’s Department of Health (DOH) shared their stories and called on Attorney General Kathleen Kane to launch an investigation into the apparent disregard for their complaints....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 11:10am PDT
Snake Valley Festival in Baker NV fights SNWA ‘Water Grab’ The annual Snake Valley Festival held in Baker, NV featured signs focusing on protecting local aquifers from the Southern Nevada Water Authority's proposed pipeline to Las Vegas. Residents of the Snake and Spring Valleys are trying to raise awareness that if the SNWA pipeline is built the water beneath their feet will be taken to Las Vegas for the benefit of golf courses, fountains and other unsustainable development. Entire spring fed ecosystems will collapse and species like the spring snai...
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2014 6:55am PDT
Swordfish Drift Gillnet Fishery Restricted to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtles What does el Nino mean for loggerhead sea turtles and a deadly fishery? Read below to find out....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 11:29am PDT
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