Day 18 from the East Texas Tar Sands Blockade I’m laying down in an open field in East Texas, staring upwards and reflecting. Small groups of stars peek out from the increasingly puffy clouds, signaling morning rain. My nostrils fill with slight […]
Frankfort, Kentucky – With a goal of restoring water quality and protecting public health from the impacts of coal mining in eastern Kentucky, a coalition of public interest groups and citizens today filed in Franklin County Circuit Court a historic settlement with […]
Tar Sands Action Camp, Oct 12 – 14 Join the fight to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline Actress and activist Daryl Hannah was arrested Yesterday alongside East Texas farmer, Eleanor Fairchild while defending her farm from the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. […]
The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history. In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s human population will be living in towns and cities. Many new Urbanites have long, furry muzzles, […]
Cross Posted from Eye on the Arctic and Ecological Internet Environmental activists have been celebrating a victory on Gotland Island, off the coast of southeast Sweden, as tree felling machinery remained idle on Saturday evening. “It was a smart and brave decision,” field […]
Below is an article published in a mainstream newspaper called the Globe and Mail about the apparent demise of the much maligned Gateway pipeline, proposed to carry Tar Sands oil from Alberta Canada all the way to the Pacific coast, slashing through […]
On October 1st, Millennium Pipeline Llc began construction on a controversial compressor station in Minisink, NY. The facility, which will emit 61,000 tons of toxic material annually, is meant to increase capacity for storage and delivery of fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania […]
By Eli MacKinnon, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer | LiveScience.com Three unusual earthquakes that shook a suburb west of Dallas over the weekend appear to be connected to the past disposal of wastewater from local hydraulic fracturing operations, a geophysicist who has […]
Appalachia Resist! announces an Action Camp, November 2-4 in Athens county [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90SrSPY5aWU?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Today, over 80 people gathered outside the Athens County Courthouse to show support for the legal case of Madeline ffitch, and to demand that the Hazel Ginsberg Injection Well […]
Florida bonneted bat…so adorable, right? Once Common in South Florida; Fewer Than 300 Believed Left in Wild ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the Florida bonneted bat, the largest, rarest bat in […]