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New Mexico Hearing to review Barrick Gold's Homestake site, where contamination has spread 
Despite promises from the mining company, contamination has spread in recent years at the Homestake superfund site. A public hearing starts today to consider Barrick Gold's experimental treatments, some of which have already been rejected by the US Army Corps of Engineers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 11:27am PDT
Landless Workers Movement: Video from the 6th MST Congress in Brazil, February 2014 
A delegation of Bay Area supporters joined a couple of hundred others from across the globe and thousands of Brazilians for the 6th Movimento Sem Terra Congress in Brazil in February 2014. Here is video from the trip....
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 12:53am PDT
Earth Day: Activists Ask Zabar's to Stop Selling Israeli Occupation Profiteer SodaStream 
On Earth Day, 70 human rights activists gathered on New York City's Upper West Side outside the iconic Zabar's store, demanding that SodaStream home carbonation devices be removed from the shelves because they are made in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. The demonstration was coordinated by the NYC Coalition Against SodaStream, which is made up of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace—NYC Chapter (JVP), Jews Say No!, and Park Slope ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2014 7:10pm PDT
Jury awards $3 million in first fracking case 
Today, a jury of their peers awarded Bob and Lisa Parr $3 million dollars in their fracking lawsuit against Aruba Petroleum....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 8:10pm PDT
Six Sea Lions Killed at Bonneville Dam This week, six California sea lions were killed at Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River simply for doing what comes naturally – eating fish. Under a permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the states of Oregon and Washington used lethal injections to kill these sea lions, who were branded and marked for death in 2013....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 12:39pm PDT
Decision Delayed on Controversial Keystone XL Pipeline WASHINGTON— The State Department announced today it will delay its decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline to give other government agencies more time to analyze the pipeline’s effects. The announcement — which follows a court ruling earlier this year striking down a Nebraska law allowing the governor, not the state’s utility commission, to decide where the pipeline should be built — makes it unlikely that a decision will be made before the November elections....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2014 1:02pm PDT
Endangered Gulf Sea Turtles in Trouble Four Years After BP Oil Spill Four years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle recovery has flatlined....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2014 9:50am PDT
Unlabeled GMO Salmon? Groups Call on FDA to Rein In Industry Claims 
Washington, D.C.—Food & Water Watch and Center for Food Safety called on FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on April 11 to put an end to erroneous statements by AquaBounty Technologies Vice President, who recently told the press that FDA has already decided that the company’s GMO salmon will be sold without a label. (see PDF)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2014 12:06pm PDT
Approval of LNG Exports Means More Money for Big Oil and Gas, More Fracking In U.S. 
House Subcommittee’s Approval of LNG Exports Means More Money for Big Oil and Gas, More Fracking In U.S. Communities...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2014 12:00pm PDT
Federal Agencies Capitulate to Armed Militia: Allow Rancher to Run Trespass Cattle LAS VEGAS— The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and other federal agencies on April 12 capitulated to threats of violence from armed militia members and ceased their legally and morally required duty to remove trespass cattle from public lands. Even worse, they returned 400 head of cattle confiscated over the past week so they can be illegally turned out on public land again without permit, payment or management....
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2014 12:55pm PDT
US Imposes Diplomatic Sanctions for Icelandic Whaling, Falls Short of Trade Sanctions WASHINGTON, D.C.– On March 31, President Obama announced that the United States will not impose targeted trade sanctions to address Iceland’s commercial whaling, although the President has revised and repackaged a series of diplomatic measures that US officials will be obligated to implement....
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2014 1:00pm PDT
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Black-backed Woodpeckers in California, Oregon, S. Dakota 
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute on April 2 filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency’s failure to protect black-backed woodpeckers under the Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 6:28pm PDT
Well Failures Fracking California's Future 
“Are New Fracking Regulations in California Enough?” is the companion article to the Sunset Travel Magazine's article on “The Future of Fracking in California”. The Sunset article, concludes with Paula Getzelman who “believes a moratorium is the best interim measure “to allow time to gather some evidence, whichever way it might go, and allow for more reasonable discussion on both sides.” Some things though, can't be fixed. Dr. Anthony Ingraffea's work is quoted, but what his research actuall...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 3:02pm PDT
California Sunset: Future Of Fracking And Farming 
From Sunset Travel Magazine April Issue, Future of Fracking in California: The weakest links in the safety chain, according to experts, are the steel casings and cement that line the wells underground. They’re designed to isolate harmful chemicals from the surrounding environment, but they’re far from infallible 6 to 7 percent of new wells drilled failed within 3 years by “compromised structural integrity,” according to Ingraffea’s research. STOP. Now look at where the quotes appear. This is ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 2:41pm PDT
International Climate Report: Cutting Meat Consumption Key to Reducing Emissions TUCSON, Ariz.— The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report today highlights the increasing threat from rising global meat and dairy consumption to limiting global warming, especially as the world population continues to grow....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 6:37pm PDT
Top UN Court Orders Japan to End Antarctic Whaling Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States issued the following statement on the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Japan’s whaling program is a breach of the global whaling moratorium and lacks scientific legitimacy in regard to the quotas set and the numbers taken....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 4:55pm PDT
Oso, Wa. mudslide not simply a natural disaster 
Most people in the U.S. have been submerged in the media bath of coverage on the deadly landslide event in Oso, Wa. that occurred March 22. News reports have highlighted both the tragic loss of life as well as the heroic efforts of rescuers, first to try to save lives and now to find and identify bodies. As of March 30, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's office has confirmed that 18 of the dead have been identified, a further nine or 10 bodies have not been formally identified, and 30 pe...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 4:44pm PDT
Earthquakes Pose Threat To Injection And Production Well Integrity 
Released in March 2014, On Shaky Ground: Fracking, Acidizing, and Increased Earthquake Risk in California was produced by Earthworks, The Center for Biological Diversity, and Clean Water Action. The report analyzes the earthquake risks associated with an increase in wastewater injection that would result from an expansion of fracking and other unconventional oil production in California. Impeccable timing. The recent La Habra earthquake, was felt in at least seven Southern California counties...
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2014 11:24am PDT
Carbon Money Laundering The Golden State's GHG Emissions 
The California Air Resources Board Ten Billion Dollar Carbon Market: The Western Climate Initiative (Inc.)
CARB created the WCI, Inc., registered as a Delaware corporation, “to perform market monitoring of allowance auctions, and market trading of compliance instruments.” California has Sunshine laws and open hearing regulations, Delaware is not subject to California state open meeting or sunshine laws. Additionally a 100 per cent Leakage Risk Looms Over Fugitive Emissions (100% leakage risk...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 7:33pm PDT
Government Accounting Office Report Shows Limited Cost of Environmental Litigation 
WASHINGTON— A report released on March 26 by the Government Accountability Office (see PDF) demonstrates that litigation brought by environmental groups is not the calamity-inducing threat to the National Forest system that House Republicans have repeatedly claimed for the past three years. The GAO’s analysis shows that from 2001 to 2010, fees awarded in 16 successful lawsuits brought because of violations of the Endangered Species Act amounted to $1.6 million. By contrast, the U.S. Departmen...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 7:56pm PDT
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