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 […]
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New Washington Wildlife Commission Policy Forecloses Spring Bear Hunt
from Center for Biological Diversity The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 5-4 on Friday to adopt a policy that forecloses spring black bear hunting, effectively ending the hunt unless the commission votes to reverse its decision in the future. The new […]
Continue readingActivists Liberate Thirty-One Hens from Industrial Farm
from Unoffensive Animal 31st May, Middlands UK. received anonymously over email: “As the bird flu crisis lessens in the UK, we felt safe saving and transporting birds from an industrial farm using biosecurity. As we approached the gigantic shed, the stench of […]
Continue readingVictory for Atlanta Forest: Reeves + Young Has Backed Out
from Stop Reeves Young On April 25th, activists with Stop Reeves Young (SRY) confirmed the news that Reeves Young, a major Atlanta construction contractor, is no longer working with the Atlanta Police Foundation on the Cop City development. This is a great victory […]
Continue readingCanadian Pacific Railway Police Service Charges Dropped Against Land Defender Vanessa Gray
from North Shore Counter-Info My name is Vanessa Gray. I am an Anishinaabe Kwe organizer, community researcher, and Land defender from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. On November 21st 2021, Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service issued charges against me in connection to an […]
Continue readingSupreme Court Declines Appeal in Dakota Access Pipeline Case
by Chris Schaino / Unicorn Riot Washington, DC – Today the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal brought by Energy Transfer, the energy giant behind the highly contested Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). This means that the existing federal court […]
Continue reading‘We get to breathe’: Chicagoans celebrate as city blocks metal shredder
by Taylor Moore / The Guardian A year after a hunger strike brought national attention to a potentially toxic metal shredder in a majority Latino neighborhood in Chicago, the city has announced it will not issue the final permit necessary for the […]
Continue reading“Huge Win for [some] Gray Wolves” as US Court Restores Endangered Species Act Protections
by Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams While celebrating a U.S. judge’s Thursday decision to restore federal protections that the Trump administration had stripped from the gray wolf, wildlife advocates and experts also demanded action to save wolves that won’t be protected by the legal triumph. Calling the […]
Continue readingFederal Court Deals Blow to “Noxious Fracked Gas” Mountain Valley Pipeline
by Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams Climate campaigners celebrated Thursday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit delivered yet another blow to a controversial gas project spanning over 300 miles in Virginia and West Virginia. “At a time when we need to […]
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