Aussies occupy drill rig to protest coal mining

One Australian activist has been released pending summons for ‘interfering with a motor vehicle’ today after stopping drilling in Bacchus Marsh. Paul Connor locked himself  to the top of Mantle Mining’s 8.5 metre-tall drill rig while hanging a banner that read ‘No […]

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Gasland-director Arrested by House Republicans

Crossposted from Alternet.org In a stunning break with First Amendment policy, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highly regarded documentary crew that was attempting to film a Wednesday hearing on a controversial natural gas procurement practice. Initial reports from […]

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Cascadia: Grizzly Peak Timber Sales Protested

By Sam Wheeler / Ashland Daily Tidings Four environmental groups are protesting the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s plan to harvest about 2.5 million board feet of timber from the slopes of Grizzly Peak and throughout the Little Butte Creek watershed. Their […]

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Monsanto Accused In Suit Tied To Agent Orange

by Jeff Brady / NPR For about two decades, ending in 1971, a former Monsanto chemical plant in West Virginia produced the herbicide 2,4,5-T which was used in “Agent Orange” — the defoliant the military sprayed over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam […]

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