by Mark Olalde / Pro Publica Ka’ila Farrell-Smith grew up in a community that was deeply involved in the fight for Indigenous rights, protesting broken treaties and other mistreatment of Native American people. Members of the movement, she said, understood that law […]
A conversation with Panagioti Tsolkas, on ICE, Alligator Alcatraz and the fight against toxic prisons
sent to Earth First! Newswire On Monday, Judge Miranda Du issued her decision in the consolidated Thacker Pass court cases including Case No. 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and Burns Paiute Tribe lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management. Judge Du ruled […]
from Center for Biological Diversity SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Puerto Rico Ports Authority announced an agreement today to proceed with dredging in San Juan Bay, Puerto Rico. The project will deepen and widen shipping channels to allow massive […]
by Onion / Earth First! Newswire Despite construction workers consistently violating a stop worker order by DeKalb County, a shady judge denied an injunction to halt further environmental destruction in the Atlanta Forest. The destruction is being committed in order to build […]
from San Francisco Chronicle A group of tree lovers in Sonoma County has filed a lawsuit to block logging near a 2,000-year-old redwood tree on the banks of the Russian River. In late November, Cal Fire approved a timber harvest plan that […]
sent to Earth First! Newswire / by Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project A Ninth Circuit Court panel has granted Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project’s motion for a stay, leaving in place the injunction that prevents the Forest Service from logging the mature and old […]
from Center for Biological Diversity On behalf of four conservation groups, the Southern Environmental Law Center today challenged, in federal court, a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to unlawfully reinstate jurisdictional determinations that removed Clean Water Act protections from […]
from Center for Biological Diversity Even as the climate emergency brings devastating fires, floods, and super-hurricanes, Big Oil’s allies in Congress have made matters worse by passing the Inflation Reduction Act, which holds renewable energy hostage to continued fossil fuel extraction on […]
Human activities have put the ocean in serious trouble. We need a fundamentally different approach from most of today’s ocean-related decision-making, which is typically “anthropocentric in nature.” Read more in this article from The Revelator.