Nathan VanderKlippe and Dawn Walton / The Globe and Mail Gord Johnston grew up on the banks of the Red Deer River, at a place his family first settled in 1939. On Thursday evening, just before 7, he returned home to the […]
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North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity
byNicholas Kusnetz, Special to ProPublica June 7, 2012, 11:47 a.m. Oil drilling has sparked a frenzied prosperity in Jeff Keller’s formerly quiet corner of western North Dakota in recent years, bringing an infusion of jobs and reviving moribund local businesses. But Keller, […]
Continue readingBig Coal’s Sleazy War
By Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone Magazine This is “End Mountaintop Removal Week Washington DC,” an attempt by activists to draw attention to the rape and pillage of Appalachia by Big Coal. Yesterday, 22 activists were arrested during a sit-in at congressional […]
Continue readingClearcutting Redwoods for Wine Vineyards?
by the Center for Biological Diversity SANTA ROSA, Calif.— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a controversial proposal by a Spanish corporation to clearcut 154 acres of redwood forest to plant wine grapes in northwestern Sonoma County. The Sierra Club’s Redwood […]
Continue readingFlagstaff Community Members Begin Hunger Strike for Protection of the San Francisco Peaks
FLAGSTAFF, AZ – Two young Flagstaffians announced the beginning of a hunger strike to call attention to human rights violations sanctioned by the US Forest Service and perpetrated by Arizona Snowbowl and the City of Flagstaff on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at […]
Continue readingWarming Trend Worries Wildlife Managers
By Candace Krebs / Ag Journal Stillwater, Okla. — A mild winter and spring that triggered early blooming and plant maturity, preceded by last summer’s record heat, is re-focusing attention on the controversial notion of whether the globe is on a warming […]
Continue readingNOAA: Carbon dioxide levels reach milestone at Arctic sites
by Katy Human The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Barrow, Alaska, reached 400 parts per million (ppm) this spring, according to NOAA measurements, the first time a monthly average measurement for the greenhouse gas attained the 400 ppm mark […]
Continue readingLawsuit Filed to Protect Threatened Marbled Murrelets From Clearcutting in Oregon State Forests
by the Center for Biological Diversity PORTLAND, Ore.— Cascadia Wildlands, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Audubon Society of Portland filed a lawsuit today in federal court charging that the state of Oregon’s clearcutting practices illegally harm threatened marbled murrelets within […]
Continue readingLawsuit Filed to Protect Crayfish Threatened by Mountaintop-removal Mining in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia
by the Center for Biological Diversity CHARLESTON, W.V.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for the agency’s failure to make a listing decision on a petition to protect the Big Sandy crayfish […]
Continue readingRosemont Mine Power Line Approved by State but Corporation Commission Adds Hurdles to Be Met
Tony Davis / Arizona Daily Star The Arizona Corporation Commission gave Rosemont Copper a boost Wednesday by unanimously granting final approval of a power line for its proposed mine. But as part of a compromise, the approval carried restrictions that will delay […]
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