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Battle for The Arctic Refuge is Just Beginning
Following is a release from Alaska Wilderness League, Alaska Coalition, Audubon, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth, League of Conservation Voters, National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, US Public Interest Research Group and The Wilderness Society...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:51pm PST
Bush and Senate Republicans About to open ANWR to Oil Drilling
Bush, and Senate Republicans are trying to open
up ANWR to Exxon again. Email the US Senate
now....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:50pm PST
Senate Votes to Allow Arctic Drilling
Washington - Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President Bush.
The Senate, by a 51-49 vote, rejected an attempt by Democrats and GOP moderates to remove a refuge drilling provision from next year's budget, preventing opponents from using a filibuster - a tactic that has blocked repeated past attempts to open the A...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 12:47pm PST
CHEMTRAIL EVIDENCE 4 Years Of Bush Crimes DOWNLOADABLE
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Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 7:54am PST
Stop Mountaintop Removal! A call to action March 31st!
Down with King Coal! Save Appalachia - Stop Mountaintop
Removal!
Take Action on March 31!
Our demand is simple – stop mountaintop removal and all forms of surface mining for coal.
Groups and individuals across Appalachia are rising in united nonviolent protest against the increasing cultural and environmental devastation caused by this most destructive form of mining. Mountaintop removal results in loss of life, loss of employment, destruction of homes, and elimination of communities ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2005 10:33am PST
Protest Seal Hunt 3-15-05 in SF
Canadian seal hunt is starting soon....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 5:06pm PST
save tennessee mountains with a phone call
Phil Bredesen, the 48th governor of Tennessee, took office in 2003, with a promise be the "environmental governor" and "to make government work on behalf of its citizens for the betterment of the entire state." Instead Bredesen and his administration have flung open the door to mountain top removal mining in clear violation of the laws they swore to uphold....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 2:02pm PST
Free los rios from corporate agribusiness
Restoring los rios de california involves changing agriculture from corporate controlled 2 smaller scale permaculture and increasing use of drought tolerant native plants.....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 11:22am PST
Mountain Justice Summer 2005 - Stop Mountain Top Removal in Tennessee
You can help save entire mountain ranges and mountain sides in
Tennessee with a few calls, emails and a fax or two....
Posted: Sun, Mar 13, 2005 6:58pm PST
Arctic and Midwest climate change
Graph on global land air temperatures is shown below, and ......
Posted: Sun, Mar 13, 2005 7:25am PST
Berkeley Critical Mass 12th Birthday Bikeride Pictures
Pictures from the 12th Annual Berkeley Critical Mass Ride...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 7:51pm PST
March 7th Blockade Video (1st day of logging) - (video/quicktime 10.7MB)
Watch this Video! Save the Siskiyou WIld Rivers area!
Come down to Southern Oregon and Campout on the green Bridge!
Watch wild otters, Steelhead Salmon and help stop Old Growth Logging for ever!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 1:23pm PST
Regional Water Board to Consider Logging Levels in Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's Impaired Waters
On Wednesday, March 16, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (NCRWQCB) will hold a public hearing in Santa Rosa to consider demands by Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Co. (PL) for authorization to conduct extensive logging in two of its severely fractured watersheds, Elk River and Freshwater Creek....
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 10:01pm PST
Act NOW to Save ANWAR!
A senate vote coould come as early as next week in the attempt to open ANWAR to drilling....
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 4:37pm PST
22 arrested this week at blockades protecting ancient forests
Reigning in a dark new era of wilderness destruction, the logging of "protected" old-growth reserves has begun at the Biscuit timber sale, atop Fiddler Mountain. 11 people, including a 72-year old womyn from rural Selma, Oregon was arrested on Monday. Another 11 were arrested on Wednesday, including one man who locked down to the rear axle of a police vehicle with a steel lockbox.
The logging takes place on areas set aside for protection of the northern spotted owl during the Clint...
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 1:14am PST
3/23 Protest to Shut Down PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant
COMMUNITY PROTEST
for environmental justice
Wednesday March 23, 2005
12 Noon
PG&E Corporate Headquarters
77 Beale Street, San Francisco
at Market Street near Embarcadero BART...
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 7:45pm PST
Oakland: vote on pesticide ordinance POSTPONED to 3/22
The pesticide ordinance was to be discussed at the
Public Works Committee meeting today, but was pulled
from the agenda at the last minute, and postponed
until March 22, 12:30pm....
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 6:27pm PST
Old Growth Reserve Logging Begins at Biscuit (video/quicktime 11.8MB)
11 Arrested at Fiddler Timber Sale Blockade...
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 3:48pm PST
Old Growth Reserve Logging Begins at Biscuit: 11 Arrested at Fiddler Timber Sale Blockade
John West of Silver Creek Logging Co. anticipated a fight over Fiddler Mountain. With 85 loggers ready to go, he expressed his intent to begin logging once a court mandate allowed controversial old growth reserve timber sales in the Biscuit Fire area to proceed. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued that mandate this morning, opening the fight West promised.
As dawn broke on the Green Bridge over the Illinois River near Selma this morning, 75 people gathered to block old growth reserve...
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 2:27pm PST
Global Roundtable on Sustainable Soy (RSS) to be Held March 17-18 in Brazil
First Ever Global Roundtable on Sustainable Soy (RSS) to be Held March 17-18 in Brazil...
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 9:12pm PST