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Canadian risk assessment finds GMO salmon susceptible to disease WASHINGTON, D.C. – A never-before-seen draft environmental review of AquaBounty Technologies’ (ABTX) genetically engineered (GE) salmon reveals that Canadian government scientists disagree with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on key questions related to the safety and performance of what may be the first GE animal approved for human consumption. In light of these findings, Food & Water Watch, Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth and Consumers Union today called on the FDA ...
Posted: Thu, May 28, 2015 4:48pm PDT
India: Over 700 heat-related deaths as Climate change projected to intensify #heatwaves 
India swelters through deadly heatwave while awaiting monsoon arrival. With heat wave temperatures hitting 46C and 47C across parts of India, heat related deaths are quickly rising. The death toll as of Monday 25 May was approaching 600 people, with 100 more heat-related deaths reported from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on Monday. While India awaits arrival of the monsoon, the lack of thunder storms and clear skies has allowed temperatures to rise as the heat blows in from Pakistan. But with ...
Posted: Tue, May 26, 2015 7:43am PDT
Is a 1.5°C climate change limit still achievable? 
While we ponder whether we will overshoot the already dangerous level of 2 Degrees Celsius of warming on the way to 4C or 5C degrees warming by the end of the century, scientists have assessed whether it is still possible to restrict global warming to just 1.5C degrees. The short answer? Yes, it is technologically possible, but requires substantial and immediate emissions reductions with no room for further delay or obstruction....
Posted: Thu, May 21, 2015 7:29am PDT
Climate Change Resistance: Seattle rises to oppose Shell's Arctic oil drilling plans 
Over the last week Royal Dutch Shell has faced stiff public opposition in Seattle to it's Arctic oil exploration program with the arrival of the Noble Explorer and Polar Pioneer oil drilling rigs for maintenance and provisioning in Seattle. Activists say risk of an oil spill is too environmentally dangerous in the Arctic, and exploiting Arctic oil will push global warming past the 2C (3.6F) global average temperature limit that has been internationally agreed....
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2015 11:28pm PDT
Martha Huckabuy from St Rose Community One Voice on the need for fenceline air monitoring (audio/mpeg 10.9MB) Martha Huckabuy of St Rose Community One Voice describes her experiences living next to the Shell / IMTT oil transport facility, which has doubled in size in the past year, as the United States exports more and more oil to other nations. Martha and st Rose was disturbed by noxious odors from the Shell / IMTT facility and testifies to the Natural Resources committee of the Louisiana house of Representatives on the need for fenceline monitoring...
Posted: Fri, May 15, 2015 9:26am PDT
Groups Sue Obama Administration Over Weak Tank Car Standards SAN FRANCISCO— In the wake of a spate of fiery derailments and toxic spills involving trains hauling volatile crude oil, a coalition of conservation organizations and citizen groups are challenging the U.S. Department of Transportation’s weak safety standards for oil trains. Less than a week after the DOT released its final tank car safety rule on May 1, a train carrying crude oil exploded outside of Heimdal, N.D. Under the current standards, the tank cars involved in the accident would not b...
Posted: Thu, May 14, 2015 7:02pm PDT
Nurses Join Teachers, Parents and Students to Voice Opposition to Phillips 66 Oil Train 
Registered nurses will join with parents and students for three days of events opposing the Phillips 66 Oil Train Project, which starts this Thursday by urging the Templeton School Board to oppose the controversial Phillips 66 proposal to add five additional rail shipments a week of dirty tar sands crude oil through the center of San Luis Obispo County to Phillips’ Santa Maria refinery. Photo: 2014 oil train derailment in Seattle, Washington. Photo Credit: Flicker user, EcologyWA...
Posted: Thu, May 14, 2015 9:03am PDT
Petition Seeks Emergency Moratorium on Imports of Salamanders for Pet Trade 
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save the Frogs today filed a formal petition to the Interior secretary seeking an emergency moratorium on the import of salamanders for the pet trade to prevent introduction of the deadly fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) into the United States. Bsal is a highly virulent pathogen from Asia spreading through the salamander pet trade and killing wild salamanders; it has already nearly wiped out wild fire salamanders in the Nether...
Posted: Thu, May 14, 2015 8:33am PDT
Desmoines Water Works Suing Drainage Districts Over Nitrate Pollution (audio/mpeg 3.7MB) The Desmoines Water Works is suing drainage districts for not properly regulating nitrate pollution. This may have an impact on the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, which is caused in part by agricultural runoff in the Mississippi River....
Posted: Thu, May 7, 2015 10:31pm PDT
On the End of Capitalism Capitalism will collapse in a chaotic and brutal way... The bridge from capitalism to the new "post-growth economy" is lacking. Hardly anyone reflects about the process of transformation... If the climate should be spared, fly8ing cannot be a human right. The unpleasant R-word that threatens growth will be unavoidable again: renunciation. This cannot be limited to flying since energy consumption can only be reduced by producing less....
Posted: Mon, May 4, 2015 8:37am PDT
Growing global demand for air conditioning as climate change causes extreme heatwaves 
The latest study of extreme weather events has concluded that 3 out of 4 heatwaves and extreme heat events and nearly one in five heavy rainfall events, on a global scale, can be attributed to human contributions to global warming through greenhouse gas emissions. As temperatures continue to rise, the percentage is set to increase even further. The increase in global demand for air-conditioning adds a further urban heat feedback and demand for energy....
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2015 6:02am PDT
California: 40 percent emissions reduction below 1990 levels by 2030 climate change target 
Governor Brown announced a major greenhouse gas reduction target of 40 per cent reduction on 1990 levels by 2030, which will boost opportunity for a successful agreement at the Paris climate change talks in December. California's commitment now matches Europe's. But Gov Brown's continued support for fracking is a major climate concern of environmental groups....
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2015 2:40am PDT
Tesla storage Battery launch a revolutionary energy solution for climate change 
In a remarkable 20 minute presentation on Thursday night, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Paypal and Tesla Motors, launched a scalable battery storage system aimed at multiple markets: from personal home use, small business to utility scale electricity storage....
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2015 2:23am PDT
Court Challenge Filed to Stop Uranium Mining Next to Grand Canyon National Park PHOENIX, Ariz.— A coalition of conservation groups announced today they are appealing a lower court decision that opens the door to new uranium mining at the Canyon uranium mine, located only six miles from Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim....
Posted: Thu, Apr 30, 2015 11:38pm PDT
Myths of Free Trade: Attac Refutes TTIP Arguments TTIP and CETA are far more than trade agreements. They help strengthen the power of transnational corporations and weaken democratic institutions. Attac promotes just trade instead of free trade. Labor rights, environmental standards and democracy must have priority over one-sided trade interests. Attac does its utmost for political and economic conditions that set distribution justice and quality of life at the center, not blind growth at any price. The TTIP agreement between the EU and ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 2:57pm PDT
Recovery Plan for California Tiger Salamander Calls for Protection of 34,000 Acres 
LOS ANGELES— In accordance with a settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today released a draft recovery plan (see PDF) for the endangered Santa Barbara County population of the California tiger salamander. The plan calls for purchase and permanent protection of up to 34,000 acres of the salamander’s breeding ponds and adjacent uplands....
Posted: Fri, Apr 24, 2015 7:35pm PDT
On Earth Day Pocan and Schakowsky Introduce Strongest Federal Fracking Ban in the U.S. Washington, D.C. — On Earth Day, U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), members of the Safe Climate Caucus, introduced the Protect Our Public Lands Act, H.R. 1902. The legislation is the strongest anti-fracking bill introduced in Congress to date and would ban fracking on public lands....
Posted: Wed, Apr 22, 2015 5:13pm PDT
Nearly 80% of Surveyed US Companies Fail to Meet Requirements of Conflict Minerals Law 
Nearly 80 per cent of U.S. public companies analyzed by human rights groups are failing to adequately check and disclose whether their products contain conflict minerals from Central Africa, a new report by Amnesty International and Global Witness reveals....
Posted: Wed, Apr 22, 2015 5:01pm PDT
New Study: Common Pesticides Pose Significant Risk to Wild Bees WASHINGTON— A study published today in the journal Nature finds that the use of neonicotinoids, the most widely used insecticides in the United States, has serious consequences for wild bees. The study, conducted in Sweden, finds that in field conditions, neonicotinoid use as a seed coating reduces wild bee density, solitary bee nesting and bumblebee colony growth; it concluded that the “contribution of pesticides to the global decline of wild bees may have been underestimated.” The findings ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 22, 2015 4:48pm PDT
President Obama’s Earth Day Climate Message Inconsistent With His Support for Fracking 
Washington, D.C. – As President Obama prepares to travel to South Florida’s Everglades tomorrow to deliver an Earth Day speech on climate change, the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch is highlighting the disconnect between the President’s statements on climate and his administration’s promotion of fracking on “protected” federal lands – including some in the Everglades region. In March, the Obama administration released toothless regulations that encourage new fracking on more than 2...
Posted: Tue, Apr 21, 2015 6:48pm PDT
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