Vandals glued all the door locks shut at the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency’s building and threw a brick through a glass door overnight Monday, an agency official said. The agency is considering a permit for a controversial biomass project near Shelton. […]
Indigenous plaintiffs from the Peruvian Amazon won their appeal today in the landmark human rights and environmental contamination lawsuit against U.S. oil giant Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the case should be […]
About 150 protesters spent the weekend near Muswellbrook, Australia, at ”Climate Camp” to draw attention to Macquarie Generation’s coal-fired Bayswater power station, one of the nation’s largest and the proposed site for a second baseload power plant. Sixty-seven people were arrested there […]
Nigeria Vs. Halliburton “Last week, Nigeria arrested at least 23 officials from companies including Halliburton, Saipem, Technip and a former subsidiary of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG in connection with alleged illegal payments to Nigerian officials. Those detained were all freed on bail […]
COP-16 After Mexican President Calderon proclaimed that the failure of COP-16 in Cancun would be a “tragedy,” it was revealed that neither Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva nor British Prime Minister David Cameron are even going to show up, raising […]