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EPA Analysis: 97 Percent of Endangered Species Threatened by Two Common Pesticides PORTLAND, Ore., April 7, 2016 — The Environmental Protection Agency’s first rigorous nationwide analysis of the effects of pesticides on endangered species finds that 97 percent of more than 1,700 animals and plants protected under the Endangered Species Act are likely to be hurt by malathion and chlorpyrifos. Another 79 percent are likely to be hurt by diazinon. The results released this week are the first in a series of biological evaluations the EPA must complete as part of a settlement wi...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2016 4:23pm PDT
BLM OKs Industrial Solar Project That Would Block Bighorn Sheep Movement in Mojave BARSTOW, Calif., April 5, 2016 — The Bureau of Land Management today issued a decision allowing the Soda Mountain Solar project to move forward on developing more than 2,813 acres of public land directly adjacent to the Mojave National Preserve that would cut off a vital route for desert bighorn sheep and damage other desert resources....
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2016 2:48pm PDT
Alameda County Residents to Urge Planning Commission to Support Fracking Ban Ordinance HAYWARD, Calif., April 4, 2016 — Members of Alameda County Against Fracking, Food & Water Watch and the Center for Biological Diversity will attend a county planning commission meeting tonight to urge commissioners to support an ordinance that would ban fracking and other extreme oil and gas extraction techniques....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 3:20pm PDT
EPA Set to Approve Use of Toxic Pesticide Dicamba for Newest GE Crops PORTLAND, Ore., April 1, 2016 — The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan today to approve the use of dicamba on cotton and soybeans that are genetically engineered to tolerate the pesticide. Dicamba has been around for decades, but this new EPA decision would allow the herbicide to be sprayed directly on cotton and soybean crops – opening the door for annual dicamba use to jump from less than 1 million pounds to more than 25 million on these two crops....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 9:43pm PDT
Groups Sue to Force FDA to Act on Chemical in Food Packaging March 31, 2016 - The Natural Resources Defense Council and Center for Food Safety, on behalf of themselves and four other public health and environmental organizations, sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today to force it to act on a petition to ban perchlorate in food packaging. The groups filed the petition in December 2014. The agency missed a June 2015 deadline to respond to the petition....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 5:53pm PDT
Lawsuit Challenges FDA's Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon SAN FRANCISCO, March 31, 2016 — A broad coalition of environmental, consumer and commercial and recreational fishing organizations today sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approving the first-ever genetically engineered food animal, an Atlantic salmon engineered to grow quickly. The man-made salmon was created by AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. with DNA from three fish: Atlantic salmon, Pacific king salmon and Arctic ocean eelpout. This marks the first time any government in the wor...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 5:21pm PDT
Fukushima + 5: The Disaster Continues Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear industry, in the US and beyond, and highlights the efforts of those who are working to create a nuclear free future. Here is this month's issue....
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2016 2:36pm PDT
San Francisco Green Film Festival - Volunteers Needed! The San Francisco Green Film Festival (SFGFF) returns April 14-20, 2016 as the Bay Area's leading event for films and discussions about people and the planet....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 11:45am PDT
Energy for tomorrow, 15 pp “The time of cheap and abundant energy comes to the end. It is the beginning of the transition of the fossil era to a post-fossil age, a transition which will be in the same measure fundamental and decisive as it was the by fossils imprinted industrial revolution of about more than 200 years ago”.1
Zerta, M. / Zittel, W. / Schindler, J. / Yanagihara, H.: Aufbruch. Unser Energie-system im
Wandel. Der veränderte Rahmen für die kommenden Jahrzehnte, (Breaking-up. Our changing
energy system. The ...
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2016 11:00am PDT
Victory! Latest Industry Effort to Block GMO Food Labeling Defeated in Senate March 16th, 2016 - Today the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act failed to garner enough votes for cloture by a vote of 49-48, effectively defeating the bill. The bill introduced by Senator Roberts (R-KS) faced bi-partisan rejection. The bill would have preempted the genetically engineered food labeling laws in Vermont, Connecticut, Maine and Alaska. In its place it would have put a voluntary labeling scheme that relies primarily on QR codes, websites and call in numbers to inform ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2016 6:04pm PDT
Audubon California sponsors legislation regulating use of drones in wildlife areas Sacramento, Calif., Mar 9, 2016 – As more and more people are taking their drones for a spin in California's open spaces, there's concern that all these flying robots might not be so great for birds and other wildlife. After tracking reports of disturbances to wildlife and habitat arising from done ruse, Audubon California decided to co-sponsor legislation that will require the state to create rules for drone use in state wildlife areas. The bill, Assembly Bill 2148, is authored by Assembly M...
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2016 7:13pm PST
DARK Act Returns to Congress in Latest Industry Effort to Block GMO Food Labeling WASHINGTON, DC (March 1, 2016)—Center for Food Safety has condemned a new bill introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts that passed the Senate Agriculture Committee today, which would preempt state genetically engineered (GE) food labeling laws, including the one in Vermont that is set to go into effect July 1. The draft bill was passed 14-6, and will now move out of the Committee. Three Democrats on the Committee voted to allow it to go the full Senate. Ranking Member ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 4:59pm PST
Utah Lawmakers Launch Last-minute Scheme to Fund California Coal Terminal SALT LAKE CITY, March 2, 2016 — Republican lawmakers in Utah are attempting an eleventh-hour maneuver that would use $53 million in state sales tax money to pay for a California coal-export terminal....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 4:54pm PST
Sea Shepherd President Involved in Captive Dolphin Trade Hypocrisy at its greatest! Pritam Singh, president of the board of directors for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has captive dolphins and sells various seafood at his resorts, while at the same time Sea Shepherd solicits donations for their dolphin-defence and anti-captivity campaigns!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 27, 2016 2:42pm PST
Nuclear Shutdown News February 2016 Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the US nuclear power industry in this country and beyond, and highlights the efforts of those who are working to create a nuclear free world.
Is Jerry Brown Involved in the San Onofre Nuclear Plant Shutdown Scandal?...
Posted: Fri, Feb 26, 2016 5:08pm PST
Mass Swan Die-Off Along Yellow River Worries Teachers Will swans soon be extinct? This is the question some Chinese pupils are increasingly posing to their teachers, but few have answers really satisfying the fresh curiosity. And it´s no longer merely these asking who have been familiar with the beautiful birds along the banks of the country´s largest river. With deceasing animals all around, increasingly these who had been looking the other way are beginning to pay attention as well....
Posted: Fri, Feb 26, 2016 2:05am PST
EPA Urged to Reject California Plan to Dump Oil Waste Into Underground Water SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., February 25, 2016 — The Center for Biological Diversity today urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny California oil officials’ proposal to turn underground water in the Price Canyon area of San Luis Obispo County into a permanent disposal site for oil wastewater....
Posted: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 4:33pm PST
Obama Administration Review Ignores Dangers of Offshore Fracking in California LOS ANGELES, February 22, 2016 — Three weeks after agreeing to take a hard look at offshore fracking’s threats to California’s coast, the Obama administration has released a draft environmental assessment from the Department of the Interior that fails to answer key questions about the risks of this controversial oil-extraction technique....
Posted: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 5:08pm PST
Ignoring the Limits This crisis is another warning shot of the current economic system and offers a window of opportunity to leave behind the neoliberal path of development taken since the end of the 1970s. The measures taken after the financial crisis have a symbolic nature and lack effective regulations of the financial markets. The root of the problem must be treated and this root is the economic model based on growth and exploitation of nature....
Posted: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 4:24am PST
Coup from Above Free trade agreements serve geo-political goals. They are the "weapons," so to speak, in the global economic war. They produce a few winners and many losers. Critical persons see through this and rebel - more passionately than ever - against "corporate rule" and against the dissolution of the primacy of politics by the primacy of the economy...Un-elected trade commissioners prepare a coup from above - in a secret mission with hundreds of lobby organizations and transnational corporations... M...
Posted: Tue, Feb 16, 2016 4:29am PST
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