Greenpeace and Avaaz announced today that their online petition to “freeze” Genetically Modified (GM) crop cultivation in the European Union (EU) has reached one million signatures. Under the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, the EU is obliged to consider a petition garnering over one […]
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Toxic Waste Spill Causes Worst Environmental Disaster in Hungarian History, plus more
A chemical residue reservoir broke in Hungary, killing four people, including two children under the age of 5. Dozens have been hospitalized for chemical burns. The sludge could reach the River Danube within four days, seriously imperiling natural life in much of […]
Continue readingEnbridge’s Dirty Oil Habit Put on Display for Investors
Toronto Organizers Confront Pipeline Giant Over Tar Sands Projects by Maryam Adrangi and Cameron Fenton TORONTO – At 8:00 this morning organizers with Environmental Justice Toronto unfurled a banner at Enbridge Day – a forum for investors at First Canadian Place – […]
Continue readingSmall Victory Against Mountaintop Removal
The day after the Appalachia Rising protests drew thousands to the nation’s capitol, sparking civil disobedience from the White House to the Department of the Interior and PNC Bank, the Environmental Protection Agency commissioned Science Advisory Board released a draft review of […]
Continue readingNorth Carolina to Capture Wild Horses to Make Space for Vacation Homes
There are currently only 115 wild horses in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and the herd already shows signs of inbreeding. Still, unlike other wild horses, this herd has no federal protection, and the Bureau of Land Management has decided to […]
Continue readingImportant Victory in Campaign Against Enbridge’s Gateway Project, Timber Wars in Australia, plus more
from rabble.ca On Friday, October 1, 2010, at the delegates at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Annual General Meeting in Whistler, voted resoundingly in opposition to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and oil tanker traffic on the province’s North […]
Continue readingGermany: Huge Anti-Infrastructure Protest, Police Reaction
from infoshop.org Protesters Attacked Yesterday with Water Canons Today marked the time when some of the first trees came down behind police baracades in Stuttgartt’s historic palace garden to make way for a rail tunnel. Thousands have been protesting and they kept […]
Continue readingGov Placing Eagles, Wolves Back on the Hit List
from the Center for Biological Diversity Legislation Would Strip Federal Protection From Wolves Before Recovery is Complete WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today condemned newly introduced federal legislation that would strip Endangered Species Act protections from wolves around the country before […]
Continue readingThousands of Mink Liberated in Ireland
from Bite Back “Rolf Anderssons mink farm in Ardara, Killybegs, was raided by the ALF. Huge hole cut through the fencing, making it an easy escape route for the 4000 mink liberated from their cages. The message to fur scum: close down […]
Continue readingTeens Storm Abercrombie & Fitch Store to Protest Toxic Perfume
Oct 1st 2010 By Virginia Sole-Smith from lemondrop.com On Tuesday, a group of (San Francisco ) Bay Area teens decided to let the brand know just how much they don’t appreciate the nostril assault. Teens Turning Green stormed an Abercrombie & Fitch […]
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