Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who has argued for the dissolution of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said this weekend that she is open to oil and gas drilling in the Everglades. Bachmann commented that all options, and ecosystems, should be made […]
By the Earth First! Journal Collective On August 25, dozens of intervenors, from the cattle industry to trophy hunters, filed three notices appealing a US district judge’s decision in favor of the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2008 listing of polar bears […]
Cross Posted from The Spokesman Review by Mike Prager Three more protesters were arrested early Saturday in Coeur d’Alene as a megaload shipment of oil excavation equipment passed through the Lake City. Law enforcement officers confirmed that the arrests were made by […]
Cross Posted from The Telegraph By Rowena Mason Authorities in Alaska have launched an official investigation, as polar bears are listed as threatened with extinction under the US Endangered Species Act and cannot be hunted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. […]
Broome, Australia—Woodside tried to bring heavy machinery to the site of their liquefied natural gas (LNG) hub at James Price Point in the early hours of Friday morning, August 25. About 50 protesters blocked the convoy of equipment under police escort heading […]
The U.S. State Department released its final Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL Pipeline to bring fossil fuel from the Canadian oil sands to the U.S. State Department official Kerri-Ann Jones said the report concludes there would be “no significant impacts […]
As the hurricane warning area expands on the East Coast covering a large area from North Carolina to Boston, the National Weather Service warned Washington, DC area with a higher danger. The US capital is now facing the second natural disaster in […]
Since last March there has been a call for online news sources and blogs to boycott the Huffington Post by not re-posting links to their stories. The boycott resulted from a $315 million deal to sell the site to AOL with nothing […]
by Earth First! Journal This Sunday, August 28, members of the newly-formed Deep Green Resistance (DGR) movement who have been taking part in the anti-tar sands civil disobedience actions at the White House are hosting a fundraiser at Busboys and Poets in […]