by the Center for Biological Diversity After decades of coal pollution from the 2040-megawatt Four Corners Power Plant and BHP Billiton’s 13,000-acre Navajo Coal Mine that supplies it, Navajo and conservation groups filed suit against the federal government late Tuesday for improperly […]
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Rare-Earth Mining Rises Again in United States
By Danielle Vinton / Wired.com The fight over the minerals that run the electronic world entered a new phase in March when the United States, the European Union and Japan collectively filed a case against China, accusing the rare-earth powerhouse of violating […]
Continue readingLawsuit Challenges Old-growth Logging Near Grand Canyon
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging a 25,000-acre timber sale on the Kaibab National Forest near Grand Canyon’s north rim. Approved in January, this is the U.S. Forest Service’s fifth attempt to sell old-growth trees […]
Continue readingB.C. Economist Blocks Coal Trains In White Rock
About a dozen protesters, including one of Canada’s leading energy-environment economists, were arrested Saturday after setting up a blockade on train tracks in White Rock, B.C., aimed at stopping U.S. coal trains from reaching local ports. Mark Jaccard, a professor of sustainable […]
Continue readingZombie Ants Fight Fungus with Fungus
By Devin Coldewey The Cordyceps fungus has become a staple of “stranger than fiction” nature stories: Its complex and lethal parasitism of ants, causing the insects to climb as high as they can before the fungus bursts like a horn from their […]
Continue readingLoss of Biodiversity Rivals Climate Change, Pollution
ScienceDaily (May 2, 2012) — Loss of biodiversity appears to impact ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to a new study from an international research team. The study is the first comprehensive effort […]
Continue readingNew Keystone XL Route Is Environmental Disaster
by Center for Biological Diversity A new route for the Keystone XL pipeline that TransCanada will reportedly submit permit applications for as early as Friday avoids portions of the Sandhills in Nebraska but crosses the Ogallala Aquifer, as well as hundreds of […]
Continue readingHappy Beltane! Merry May Day!
From Oakland to Asia, from Madrid to Moscow people are striking, and celebrating! Here in South Florida the Earth First! Journalistas are celebrating the completion of the Betane 2012 issue of the Journal! It is out of our hands and will be […]
Continue readingEnbridge Oil Spill Whistle-Blower Trial Updates
July 2010, more than a million gallons of tar sands crude spilled into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. This is the largest inland spill in US History. A fired cleanup worker with a dark past claims he was ordered to cover up oil to […]
Continue readingFracking: ACT 13, The Worst Is Coming
Article by Steven Rosenfeld, from Alternet.org Pennsylvania, where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were signed and where the U.S. coal, oil and nuclear industries began, has adopted what may be the most anti-democratic, anti-environmental law in the country, giving gas […]
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