cross posted from the Towanda Daily Review A bill to open the way for natural gas drilling on the grounds of 14-state-owned universities and other unexplored state-owned land cleared a first hurdle Tuesday in a Senate committee. The vote by the Environmental […]
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BP To Settle Federal Lawsuit Over 2006 Spills for $25M
cross posted from KTUU.com The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that BP’s Alaska unit will pay $25 million in civil penalties to settle a federal lawsuit over 2006 crude oil spills from its North Slope pipelines. Under the settlement, which also involves […]
Continue readingTerrorism is Dead, Long Live Eco-Terrorism
With Usama Bin Laden dead the authorities can again refocus their energy on quelling the domestic “eco-terrorist” movement in the United States leaving us at the Earth First! Journal just that much more paranoid that our Facebook page is being monitored! And […]
Continue readingEnvironmental consortium sues DEC over hydrofracking in state forests
The Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the State Department of Environmental Conservation seeking to declare hydrofracking in state forests contrary to the state Constitution and related environmental laws. Among those lands is the vast Stewart State […]
Continue readingRollins 5 charges dropped! Resistance to industrial wind continues in Maine
Bangor, Maine—Today, all trespassing charges were dropped against Maine Earth First! activists Jessica Dowling, John Waters, Leonard Murphy, Donald Smith and James Freeman. The five were arrested in November after they blocked construction vehicles at the Rollins industrial wind energy project. Charges […]
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