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New Tests Find Toxic Cocktail in Santa Barbara Spill 
SANTA BARBARA, CA – Numerous toxic chemicals known to pose severe threats to human health and marine life contaminated the Pacific Ocean and beaches when more than 100,000 gallons of oil spilled from a ruptured pipeline in Santa Barbara County, according to independent test results released today by Water Defense. The non-profit organization’s testing of spilled oil deposited on the beach and water samples collected from the May 19 Refugio State Beach oil spill confirmed the presence of sever...
Posted: Mon, Jun 29, 2015 3:09pm PDT
Costco members, fishermen, environmental, labor groups demand Costco say no to GE salmon ISSAQUAH, Wash. — A coalition including Community Alliance for Global Justice, fishermen, members of UFCW Local 21 and concerned Costco customers rallied in front of the Costco next door to store headquarters and presented more than 300,000 petition signatures demanding that Costco Wholesale (COST) publicly commit to not sell genetically engineered (GE) salmon....
Posted: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 6:15pm PDT
Teens win interim lawsuit in climate change case in Washington State 
On Tuesday in Washington State King County Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill issued a judgement ordering the Washington Department of Ecology to reconsider a citzen petition on rulemaking for greenhouse gas reductions according to the best available science....
Posted: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 5:09am PDT
Pacific Island Nations threaten legal action against major climate polluters 
The Pacific Declaration for Climate Justice signed by several Pacific Nations on June 8, 2015, threatens legal action to recover damages against major greenhouse gas polluters that have contributed to climate change....
Posted: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 2:48am PDT
Nuclear Shutdown News June 2015 Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline the decline and fall of nuclear power...
Posted: Thu, Jun 25, 2015 4:22pm PDT
Protesters urge state officials to halt Santa Barbara offshore drilling expansion 
“The last thing this oil-drenched area needs is more drilling,” said Michelle Bednash, a resident of Goleta. “The State Lands Commission should safeguard our public lands and focus on decommissioning offshore oil wells and promoting sustainable energy."
Photo of Wednesday's rally in Goleta courtesy of the Center for Biological Diversity....
Posted: Thu, Jun 25, 2015 10:34am PDT
White House Urged to Remove Wood-burning Power Plants From Pollution Reduction Plan WASHINGTON— Fourteen conservation groups today urged the White House to eliminate biomass energy — the large-scale burning of wood to create electricity — as a means of compliance under the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan,” which will regulate carbon pollution from power plants....
Posted: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 5:08pm PDT
Dutch Court orders Nethelands to cut climate change emissions by 25 percent by 2020 
A Dutch court in a landmark legal case brought by 886 citizens has just handed down a verdict that the Netherlands Government has the legal duty of care and human rights obligation to take effective measures against climate change. Further, the court ordered that a minimum 25% reduction of CO2 emissions, based on 1990 levels, must be accomplished by 2020 by the Dutch government in accordance with IPCC scientific recommendations for industrial countries....
Posted: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 4:33am PDT
Pakistan: Heatwave Deaths rise in Karachi during Ramadan 
Pakistan is suffering a scorching heatwave with temperatures peaking near 47 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit) away from the coast. The port city of Karachi has recorded temperatures of 45 degrees with an escalating official death toll now numbering near 800 people....
Posted: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 4:22am PDT
Activists will rally to block offshore oil drilling expansion in Santa Barbara 
Using a loophole in the state law that prohibits leasing state waters for oil and gas drilling, Venoco has asked the State Lands Commission to approve a lease swap that would allow the company to drill for more oil on 3,400 acres off the California coast. That oil would be transported through the Plains All American pipeline, according to Californians Against Fracking....
Posted: Tue, Jun 23, 2015 1:37pm PDT
It's Not Just Climate - Pope Francis Is Also Warning About The Health Of Our Oceans In his 222-page encyclical, Pope Francis warned about (1) the polar plight, (2) sea level rise, (3) ocean-bound water pollution, (4) ocean acidification, (5) overfishing and (6) loss of marine biodiversity....
Posted: Tue, Jun 23, 2015 10:52am PDT
TTIP: Trifling Economic Advantages at the Cost of Democracy and the Public Interest TTIP represents a crisis for democracy and the constitutional state. A parallel private arbitration system allows three corporate lawyers to serve as judges. Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIA describes the TTIP as “secret tribunals” where only “foreign investors” can sue. Frank Bsirske Of the German Verdi service union said the TTIP is a “black box” transferring sovereignty from states and communities to corporations. Labor and environmental regulations can be chilled or invalidated as “takings” ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 3:55am PDT
California Nurses, Teachers Oppose Phillips 66 Oil Train Project 
The 120,000-member California Federation of Teachers voted to add their voice to the growing community of nurses and teachers opposed to the Phillips 66 oil train project....
Posted: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 5:08pm PDT
Interview: Westin Campo - 350 Louisiana (audio/mpeg 15.1MB) 350Louisiana calls on New Orleans city council to mandate 20% renewable energy by 2020....
Posted: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 8:12am PDT
Eastern Puma Declared Extinct, Removed From Endangered Species List WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today declared the eastern puma extinct and removed it from the list of protected wildlife and plants under the Endangered Species Act. The eastern puma was a subspecies of the animal also known as cougar or mountain lion, which is still widely distributed across the West. It once roamed as far north as southeastern Ontario, southern Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada, south to South Carolina and west to Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan....
Posted: Tue, Jun 16, 2015 1:43pm PDT
EPA Report Finds Fracking Water Pollution, Despite Oil Industry's Refusal to Provide Data WASHINGTON— A long-delayed report released today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds that fracking has polluted drinking water. But a lack of cooperation from the oil and gas industry limited the study’s ability to draw wider conclusions. “The limited amount of data collected before and during hydraulic fracturing activities reduces the ability to determine whether hydraulic fracturing affected drinking water resources in cases of alleged contamination,” the study notes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2015 2:19pm PDT
Nuclear Shutdown News May 2015 Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the continuing decline of the US nuclear industry. US nuke plants were designed to operate for 40 years… as many of them have approached or surpassed that mark, they have become increasingly unsafe and inefficient, threatening our health and safety. This report points out some of these problems and supports those working for a nuclear free future. Here’s our May 2015 issue....
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2015 3:16pm PDT
Texas Piers are Helping to Protect Endangered Sea Turtles Turtle Island Restoration Network (Turtle Island) has partnered with Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC) to adopt the Center’s “Responsible Pier Initiative,” to promote a healthy pier environment for sea turtles and other marine life....
Posted: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 9:15am PDT
El Niño Triggers Temporary Drift Gillnet Fishery Closure off Southern California The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has announced it will close southern California ocean waters to drift gillnets in order to protect endangered loggerhead sea turtles. This legally mandated closure went into effect June 1 according to regulation and is prompted by current El Niño conditions–warmer than normal ocean waters. The closure will stay in effect until August 31, 2015....
Posted: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 9:13am PDT
Ecuador Seizes 200,000 Shark Fins Yesterday, the Ministry of Interior of Ecuador released a video showing Vice Minister Diego Fuentes explaining that 200,000 shark fins (which corresponds to roughly 40,000 sharks) had been seized in a series of operations. The Ecuador government arrested three people and confiscated several fire arms....
Posted: Fri, May 29, 2015 5:45pm PDT
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