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International Climate Report: Cutting Meat Consumption Key to Reducing Emissions TUCSON, Ariz.— The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report today highlights the increasing threat from rising global meat and dairy consumption to limiting global warming, especially as the world population continues to grow....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 6:37pm PDT
Top UN Court Orders Japan to End Antarctic Whaling Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States issued the following statement on the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Japan’s whaling program is a breach of the global whaling moratorium and lacks scientific legitimacy in regard to the quotas set and the numbers taken....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 4:55pm PDT
Keystone XL: State Department tells the environment to drop dead The U.S. State Department appears to be cooking the books in its studies of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Could this be a sign that the Obama administration is preparing to approve a project that potentially could be the tipping point for uncontrollable global warming?...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2014 6:49am PDT
Air Pollution is Killing Millions around the World, says World Health Organization WASHINGTON (March 25, 2014) – An estimated seven million people around the world in 2012 died prematurely as a result of air pollution– making dirty air the largest single environmental health risk we face, the World Health Organization reported today. The mortality rate more than doubles the organization’s previous estimate....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2014 12:22am PDT
Army Corps Reverses Misguided Policy Requiring Clearing Trees From Levees SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on March 24 announced a reversal of its policy requiring removal of all trees and shrubs from levees to obtain federal money for disaster assistance. A new interim policy allowing levee vegetation applies nationwide and the Corps has promised a rulemaking to make it permanent. The vegetation removal policy was challenged by conservation groups and opposed by many local flood districts, since vegetation on many levees provides important habi...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 7:49pm PDT
Animal Advocates Sue U.S. Forest Service over California Horses SAN FRANCISCO — On March 24, a coalition of animal and environmental groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to stop the U.S. Forest Service from eliminating thousands of acres of protected territory and rounding up as much as 80% of the wild horses in the Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Territory in northeast California’s Modoc National Forest. Roundups mean herding horses into corrals using helicopters and separating them from their families—and frequently l...
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2014 11:40pm PDT
Idaho Lawmakers Pass Bill to Kill Hundreds of Wolves BOISE, Idaho— The Idaho Legislature on March 20 passed House Bill 470, a bill to create a new lethal “Wolf Depredation Control Board” to administer a fund for widespread killing of wolves in the state. The bill, expected to be signed into law by Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, sets aside $400,000 in state funds to kill roughly 500 wolves, leaving just 150 in the entire state....
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2014 6:53pm PDT
Injunction Sought to Halt Unnecessary Caltrans Highway-widening in Smith River Canyon CRESCENT CITY, Calif.— Conservation groups filed for a preliminary injunction in federal court on March 20 to halt construction of a Caltrans highway-widening project that would harm threatened coho salmon runs and undermine public safety along the wild and scenic Smith River Canyon in California’s remote Del Norte County. The project is aimed at widening narrow sections of highways 197 and 199 to provide access for oversized trucks. The conservation groups had challenged Caltrans’ approval o...
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2014 6:49pm PDT
California Bans Retail Sale of Super-toxic Rat Poisons SACRAMENTO— California has approved a statewide ban on direct-to-consumer sale of some of the most dangerous rat poisons but loopholes still leave many wildlife species at risk. The ban approved Tuesday, which will go into effect July 1, prohibits the sale of certain products by d-CON, the only second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide sold directly to the general public. Harm to wildlife from rodenticides is widespread: Poisonings have been documented in at least 25 wild species in Califor...
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2014 2:24pm PDT
African American Worker Blew the Whistle on Treasure Island Radioactive Contamination An African American contract worker who first discovered high amounts of radioactive contamination on Treasure Island was subsequently fired, and blew the whistle by reporting this contamination to public officials....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 10:24pm PDT
Nurses Demand State Dept. Certify that Keystone XL Will Not Have Adverse Health Effects The nation’s largest U.S. organization of nurses today called on Secretary of State John Kerry and the Obama Administration to issue a finding that the Keystone XL “will not adversely impact the health and safety of the American people” prior to any final decision on the controversial project....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 2:18pm PDT
North Coast Fracking, Mendocino and Humboldt County The presence or absence of 'known' producible areal extents of hydrocarbons shifts, bounded by the historical and chronological use of available of technology, and the shifts in area operations due to asset maturity, unstable political climate, citizen actions, Legislative actions, and investments as detailed in a company's forward looking (SEC) profile and production portfolio....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 2:32am PDT
It's Time To Nationalize Oil and Institute Price Caps Oil belongs to a country, not to privateers. Petroplutocrats have destroyed the environment,
have pricegouged the poor and all, have caused coups in
socialist countries like Iran in 1953, have assassinated people,
have caused runaway inflation, have conspired since the early 1900's to destroy train systems
and electric car industries....
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 4:12pm PDT
Five Global Threats to Family Farmers Among the specific threats identified by the report are new trade and investment deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) due to be adopted by twelve Pacific Rim states, and the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) between the US and the European Union. These agreements, notes report author Tanya Kerssen, threaten to override national laws—such as land-use guidelines and regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs)—that protect family farmers. Those who stand to benefit...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 12:21pm PDT
*NEWS: Bison Activist Arraigned Today COMFREY JACOBS vs U.S. GOVERNMENT: Comfrey Jacobs appeared in U.S. federal court today for his first arraignment after being arrested for blocking the road to Yellowstone National Park's bison trap on Thursday morning, March 6, 2014. Mr. Jacobs was charged with three offenses: disorderly conduct, breaking a closure, and interfering with a government operation. He was offered a plea bargain: if he plead guilty he would be charged $1,000 in restitution, be placed on unsupervised probation fo...
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 12:02pm PDT
TTIP: A Tranatlantic Constitution of Corporations? The TTIP, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement, threatens the economics, health and food policies of countries beyond the EU and the US. The Investor-State Settlement mechanism gives corporations the same status as nation states. Sovereignty is sacrificed for profits of foreign investors. Philip Morris is suing Australia and Uruguay for lost profits because of health warnings on cigarette packages. A flood of lawsuits can be expected....
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 4:54am PDT
Animal Rights 101: Liberating, Not Eliminating, the Nonhuman World The eradication of the nonhuman world hardly registers on the animal rights radar, and it should. The short movie the Meatrix plays upon the idea of going back to the basics, a sort of “Animal Rights 101.” The film shows Leo the pig learning that the bucolic family farm he believed existed was hiding the sickening reality of the factory farm where Leo really lived. When Leo backs out of the illusion the lesson becomes clear: people who care about animals should treat them well, both directly ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2014 12:52pm PDT
Washington Wolf Numbers Increase for Fourth Year to 52 Wolves in 13 Packs OLYMPIA, Wash.— The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced on March 8 that the state’s wolf population has grown to a minimum of 52 wolves, with 13 packs and five breeding pairs. The new estimate is up from 10 packs a year ago and represents a more-than fourfold increase from three packs at the end of 2010....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2014 12:45pm PDT
Occupy the Farm rally in response to City Council decision March 12 For Immediate Release
March 7, 2014...
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 4:03am PST
US Beaches Fall Victim to Federal Budget Again SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Mar. 5, 2014—The White House released the federal budget for FY2015 yesterday that proposes to eliminate all funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) BEACH Act grant program that supports water-testing programs at beaches around the country....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 3:45am PST
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