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Oil Cleanup at Aleutian Shipwreck Halted JUNEAU, Alaska -- Salvage and cleanup operations of a freighter that wrecked in the Aleutian Islands have been shut down until spring, the Coast Guard said Monday...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 8:00pm PST
Global Warming Treaty Set to Take Effect NEW YORK -- After seven politically painful years, the Kyoto Protocol finally enters into force on Wednesday, reining in industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" in a first attempt to control climate change....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 10:46am PST
S.F. researcher tracks poison over 9,500 miles There stood Jack Dumbacher, innocently trying to trap a gorgeous bird of paradise in the mist net he'd set up for his research in a New Guinea forest, when the net entangled a flying stranger, all vivid orange and black....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 9:12am PST
The End of Suburbia: Film Review The documentary predicts that, as less oil is pumped from the ground and prices surge upward, property values of suburban homes will plummet.. The documentary postulates that the answer to the coming oil shortage resides in new urbanism....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:25pm PST
Judge Tosses Lawsuit Over Kan. Wind Farm WICHITA, Kan. -- A federal judge on Friday tossed out a lawsuit filed by a coalition of ranchers and conservationists seeking to block development of a large wind farm in one of North America's few remaining stands of native tallgrass prairie....
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 11:59pm PST
Sporting and Environment Groups to Call for Changes to Republicans' GreenPA Plan On Monday, February 14, the day before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the Republicans' GreenPA proposal, sporting and environmental groups will hold a telephone press conference at 10 AM to announce their analysis of the proposal, and to call for amendments in the Green PA plan to meet ongoing environmental needs throughout the Commonwealth...
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 1:38am PST
NCPA: Opponents Lose on Clear Skies Amendment; Committee Votes for Version That Does Not I DALLAS, Feb. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have offered a new version of the Clear Skies Act to committee members. The new version of the Act is a clear defeat for critics of the original bill, and scholars at the National Center for Policy Analysis said it would be better for the bill to die in committee rather than move forward with the caps on CO2....
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 1:30am PST
Richmond TOXICs generator 2/15/04, Tuesday, come to Richmond City Council meeting and help get a handle on the superfund-level site that developers are stirring up and poisoning us with...
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 6:39pm PST
SPI Plans Intensive Old-Growth Logging 
Sierra Pacific Industries plans a patch work of clear-cuts in highly sensitive area. Public comments needed....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 11:51am PST
California: Arrest made in one of three alleged eco-sabotage arsons SACRAMENTO - Investigators said Thursday they have made an arrest in one of three recent alleged eco-terror arsons east of Sacramento.
Arrest made in one of three alleged eco-terror arsons
DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
February 10, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:31pm PST
BACH meeting at rockridge library 2-nite at the rockridge library in oakland (5366 College Ave., 5 blocks south of rockridge BART) Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters and anyone concerned about deforestation, Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's corporate deceit and other forest issues please attend & b open 4 suggestions and dialogue.....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:02pm PST
Big Win for Salmon & Tribes: Westlands Won't Appeal Trinity River Legal Victory Westlands Water District's decision to not appeal the Trinity River legal victory in July is great news for river restoration advocates....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:35am PST
2/22: Stop Pesticides in Oakland We need people to show up 2/22, at 12:30 and/or 7:30... read all about
this at www.eastbaypesticidealert.org and sign petition. What is going on is
disgusting... Oakland banned pesticides, then did 2 exemptions and is ready
to do a third....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 11:28pm PST
New Campaign Opposes Shasta Dam Plans An entire week of film showing benefits will unite Winnemem, Hopi & Environmental Leaders. A film/panel discussion at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento will be held on March 4 at 7 p.m....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:18pm PST
Calpine's Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Threatens Oregon Calpine, the Enron spawn that unsuccessfully tried to get LNG into Humboldt Bay, left because of strong community opposition. Just as predicted, Calpine is now attempting to bring their explosive supercooled LNG tankers into Coos Bay, Oregon.....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:31am PST
Judi Bari's "Biographer" says don't believe what I write Judi Bari's "biographer" Kate Coleman says that what she writes should not be taken as fact....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 9:47pm PST
Farmers' Seeds Outlawed in Iraq Iraqi Order 81 is of special interest because it goes a
long way in affecting every living being on the planet.
This order prohibits Iraqi farmers from using the
methods of agriculture that they have used for
centuries. The common worldwide practice of saving
heirloom seeds from one year to the next is now illegal
in Iraq. Order 81 wages war on Iraqi farmers. They have
lost the freedom and liberty to choose their own
methods of agriculture....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 9:53pm PST
CoopRadio.org: Dr. Rosalie Bertell on PLANET EARTH: The Latest Weapon of War - Feb. 7 "Rosalie Bertell shows how the space programme, Star Wars research and electromagnetic weapons have destabilised the ecosystem, causing widespread devastation in environmental, economic and social terms. She calls for a new approach to security, rising above the national agendas, to seek global solutions to a global problem.”...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 6:22pm PST
EARTH MATTERS - Flashpoints Radio (audio/mpeg 11.8MB) "Earth Matters" is a weekly environmental news segment on KPFA's investigative news show, FLASHPOINTS....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 9:42am PST
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