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Politics Faded Out the Constitutional Offensiveness of Trade Agreements The arbitration jurisdiction with the ISDS mechanism is the most controversial point of the two trade agreements. US corporations could file lawsuits against the German prohibition of gas production through fracking. They could demand compensation in the billions from the states. States could be deterred by the threat of lawsuits from environmental and labor protective regulations. These agreements are not trade bills but bills to increase corporate profits and privilege foreign investors...
Posted: Tue, Apr 21, 2015 4:20am PDT
Coalition Challenges Expansion of Hazardous Herbicide Containing Agent Orange Ingredient 
San Francisco, Calif. — A coalition of conservation, food safety, and public health groups filed a motion today challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s decision to expand the use of “Enlist Duo” on genetically engineered (GE) corn and soy crops to nine additional states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and North Dakota....
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 2:37pm PDT
10th Circuit Court Rejects Navajo Coal Mine Emergency Motion DENVER— Two days after a federal district court halted coal mining within a newly expanded area of New Mexico’s Navajo Mine, mine operators filed an emergency motion asking the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow that coal mining to resume. The appeals court on Thursday denied that motion, saying that the Navajo Mine’s owner, the Navajo Transitional Energy Company, “failed to make the requisite showing” justifying their request to restart coal mining....
Posted: Sat, Apr 18, 2015 5:49pm PDT
5 Years After Deepwater Horizon Disaster, Obama Pursues More Offshore Drilling WASHINGTON— Five years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Gulf of Mexico is still reeling from the nation’s biggest oil spill yet the Obama administration is pursuing dangerous new offshore oil drilling projects in the Gulf and in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, putting more wildlife at risk and exacerbating global climate change....
Posted: Sat, Apr 18, 2015 5:33pm PDT
Pearl River conference (audio/mpeg 2.9MB) 3 minute piece on american river endangered river nomination pearl river...
Posted: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 5:52pm PDT
Fast Track, TPP and TTIP Should Be Scrapped! How scandalous that communities and states should lose sovereignty to corporations! In the TTIP negotiated in secret, corporations can sue states for lost profits. The threat of a lawsuit can have a chilling effect on labor and environmental protective regulations. A parallel private arbitration system (ISDS) is created that privileges foreign investors over labor and the environment. Philip Morris, Violea, Vattenfall, Occidental, Pacific Rim and Metalclad are flagrant examples of profit ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2015 4:20am PDT
Groups Challenge Major USDA Change to Organic Rule Organic stakeholders filed a lawsuit in federal court, maintaining that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) violated the federal rulemaking process when it changed established procedures for reviewing the potential hazards and need for synthetic chemicals in certified organic food. A coalition of 15 organic food producers and farmer, consumer, environmental, and certification groups asked the court to require USDA to reconsider its decision on the rule change and reinstitute the agency’...
Posted: Thu, Apr 9, 2015 5:46pm PDT
Federal Judge OKs Uranium Mining Next to Grand Canyon National Park PHOENIX, Ariz.— U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell denied a request to halt new uranium mining at the Canyon uranium mine, located only six miles from Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim. The Havasupai tribe and a coalition of conservation groups had challenged the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to allow Energy Fuels Inc. to reopen the mine without initiating or completing formal tribal consultations and without updating an obsolete federal environmental review dating to 1986. At sta...
Posted: Wed, Apr 8, 2015 1:08pm PDT
American Airlines Announces on Twitter Shark Fin Shipment Ban 
American Airlines sent out tweets today announcing that they will no longer be shipping shark fins....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 12:38pm PDT
TTIP: Corporate Interests Against Citizens The regulatory approaches of the EU and the US are fundamentally different. In the US, environmental- and consumer protection functions according to the principle of precaution. State regulations protect the environment and health. The obligation to provide evidence that a product is harmless lies with the manufacturer or importer... The lower cost standard will prevail when standards between the EU and the US are harmonized TTIP serves economic interests first of all and not safeguarding ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 4:03am PDT
Endangered Hammerhead Shark Fins Exported from Costa Rica, Touch Down Illegally in U.S. Conservation groups PRETOMA and Turtle Island Restoration Network and have found evidence that hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) are being exported from Costa Rican ports and flown to plates in Hong Kong by way of stop-overs on U.S. soil....
Posted: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 11:18am PDT
World Social Forum 2015 in Tunis Joins the Cry "Nous Sommes Bardo!" 
The World Social Forum in Tunis (24-28 March 2015) closes with resounding unity against global warming, neoliberalism, militarism, terrorism, and for the increasingly important role of women in making another world possible....
Posted: Sun, Apr 5, 2015 4:08am PDT
Court Rules Navy War Games Violate Law Protecting Whales and Dolphins 
LOS ANGELES (March 31, 2015) —A federal court today announced that the U.S. Navy’s training and testing activities off the coast of Southern California and Hawaii illegally harm more than 60 whale, dolphin, seal, and sea lion populations. The U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii, found that the National Marine Fisheries Service – the agency charged with protecting marine mammals – violated multiple requirements of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act when agreein...
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 4:44pm PDT
Court Rules Navy Training in Pacific Violates Laws Meant to Protect Whales, Sea Turtles HONOLULU— A federal judge ruled on Tuesday (see PDF) that the National Marine Fisheries Service acted illegally in approving U.S. Navy testing and training activities in the Pacific Ocean that threaten widespread harm to whales, dolphins, other marine mammals and imperiled sea turtles....
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 2:04pm PDT
Nuclear Shutdown News, March Edition Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the continuing decline of the US nuclear industry, and highlights efforts of those who are democratically working to bring about a renewable energy future.
As nuclear plants in the US are approaching or surpassing their 40 year operating life, their ability to operate properly and safely lessens, creating more and more problems across the nation....
Posted: Tue, Mar 31, 2015 5:22pm PDT
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!! An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment “expectations” and hurts their business, according to a classified document....
Posted: Tue, Mar 31, 2015 5:46am PDT
California Must Support 'No New Offshore Drilling' From Alaska, to North Carolina 
China (SINOPEC) and Malaysia (Petronas) both state owned companies, under repressive regimes, own leases and drilling rights from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. America's Resources are being exploited for the sake of foreign countries. As Americans look towards renewables and clean energy, corporate international trade policies are selling the dirty polluting resources and drilling rights, to willing buyers – Asia, which have to commit to leaving their own hydrocarbon reserves in the ground....
Posted: Sun, Mar 29, 2015 7:54am PDT
Lawsuit Filed to Protect Rare Colorado, Utah Wildflowers Threatened by Oil Shale Mining 
DENVER— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today in federal court in Denver challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to deny Endangered Species Act protection to two imperiled wildflowers that live only on oil shale formations in Colorado and Utah. Oil shale and tar sands mining and traditional oil and gas drilling threaten 100 percent of known White River beardtongue populations and over 85 percent of the known Graham’s beardtongue populations....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2015 4:57pm PDT
Kentucky's Proposed Tar Sands Mining Puts People, Water, Wildlife at Risk 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.— The Center for Biological Diversity today called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny permits for a tar sands mining project in Logan County, Ky., that would include strip-mining wetlands and streams in pursuit of these particularly dirty and dangerous fossil fuels....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2015 12:05pm PDT
Endangered Gulf of Mexico Sea Turtles Splash into Jindal’s Presidential Bid Conservation groups are taking a hard look at Gov. Bobby Jindal’s environmental record in advance of his expected campaign announcement in June. Turtle Island Restoration Network published an op-ed this week in the Houston Chronicle highlighting how Jindal has failed to protect the endangered sea turtles in his home state of Louisiana....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2015 11:45am PDT
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