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Mayor Gavin Newsom has given his blessings to build a very large facility byt Pier 80 - MUNI Metroeast Facility. This facility will be built next to 3 Combustion Turbines very toxic that will kill the workers and other constituents who work and live near by. Millions of other that will travel on Illinois Street the new highway that will connect to the new Illinois Street Bridge. How can we call ourselves a Green City when we continue to build facilities that pollute? Are we really a Green Cit...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Barbara Lott-Holland’s most fervent wish is that her 11 grandchildren thrive in a habitable world. She sees a clean environment as a basic human right, one that has not been guaranteed for her and others in her Crenshaw neighborhood in Los Angeles....

Methyl iodide is a chemical that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now evaluating for registration as a replacement for methyl bromide, a fumigant that is being phased out because it causes ozone depletion in the atmosphere....

EARTH MATTERS radio - environmental news for KPFA's investigative news show, "Flashpoints." An interview with Michelle Desilets of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK. Orangutans are being brutally attacked, beaten, macheted, and burned to death due to loss of their native habitat to rainforest logging. Once displaced they stray onto massive industrial Palm Oil plantations in Indonesian Borneo. A vast amount of this palm oil is headed for for the Biofuel markets of the USA a...

STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO FAMILIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION! Something critical is about to happen concerning the traditional communities on Big Mountain & surrounding areas. Please take a moment to read and fax this letter today. It will automatically be sent to the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs, Senate & Congress. Link supplied below....

By the time the Stephens Creek capture facility, located one mile inside Yellowstone National Park, is empty nearly 1,000 sacred buffalo will be dead. We all bear a share of responsibility for this because our federal tax dollars are footing the bill....

Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a previous episode of global warming....

The Islais Creek Bridge now being built by San Francisco Port Authority will contribute to pollution and death. Millions of vehicles will spew dangerous particulates that will adversely impact the Bayview area. The Bay is already polluted and with this new bridge more pollution will adversely impact the Bay. Mayor Gavin Newsom knows about this polluting bridge but will do nothing about it. The Bridge is being built over a Force Main and no one is speaking up. The Bridge design is poor and is ...

After launching "Green Issues" a few months back, I was forced by technical difficulties with the site and other commitments (namely my main website, Cheryl Seal Reports) to let it ride for a while. Now the glitches have been worked out and I hope to be able to update the site on a weekly basis, if not more frequently...

Last month, James E. Hansen, a senior scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), accused appointees of the Bush administration in the agency’s public affairs department of attempting to prevent him from publicly discussing the role of fossil fuel emissions in climate change....