More than 200 people — led by environmental activist Erin Brockovich — marched to Shell’s oil refinery in Carson to protest the company’s refusal to take responsibility for the contamination of a tract in the Carousel neighborhood, where high levels of benzene […]

Arguably the single worst industrial project in the world, the Canada Tar Sands is so big that if Canada stopped all other industrial projects, it still wouldn’t reach Kyoto Protocol Requirements. But the Tar Sands might be given a rest, as plucky […]

Pete Grannis, “the (New York) commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation since 2007, was fired Thursday by Gov. David Paterson for what a state source ascribed to “poor performance and insubordination.”” click here for more. In reality, he was fired […]

There is a new support site up for Rod Coronado at http://supportrodcoronado.info/. Rod is facing four months in federal prison for probation violation after friending Mike Roselle on facebook. He is facing a renewed 3 year probation upon release. If you can, […]

Today India denied Vedanta Resources permission for a six-fold expansion of its aluminium refinery in Orissa state over environmental concerns, dealing a fresh blow to the British company. Just two months ago, Vedanta was rejected in trying to mine bauxite on sacred […]

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Daniel McGowan was granted his request to transfer out of the Communication Management Unit yesterday. He’s in general population at Marion. McGowan was put in prison on charges related to the Green Scare, and was put in the CMU to repress his […]

[This article was also published in the Earth First! Journal, 30th Anniversary edition, Volume II] Prelude: A Spiking We Will Go We learned of Moscow city authorities’ plans to destroy the Khimki forest in summer of 2008, when local environmentalists started an […]

So far, 33 action reports have come back from this weeks Global Week of Action for Climate Justice. Activists from London to Jakarta, Toronto to Buenos Aires, have taken action in defense of the planet. Demonstrations spanned from anti-GMO protests to demands […]

RNC8.org Earlier today, Max Specktor and Rob Czernik pled guilty to gross misdemeanor Conspiracy to Riot, and Garrett Fitzgerald and Nathanael Secor pled guilty to gross misdemeanor Conspiracy to Damage Property. These are all non-cooperating plea agreements; they will not be called […]