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• A Dozen Offshore Oil Rigs in California Fracking Without Legally Mandated Review

  

  by The Environmental Defense Center / The Santa Barbara IndependentOil rigs off the Santa Barbara coast in CA (photo: LA Times)At least a dozen offshore oil... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Viral Video: Naming Hurricanes After Politicians Who Deny Climate Change

  by Laura Beans / EcoWatchA new campaign was kicked off yesterday, aimed at increasing awareness of climate change and its link to extreme weather. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Mink and Foxes Freed from Ontario Fur Farm

  anonymous report / Bite Back “In the early morning of August 26, 2013, the ALF raided Royal Oak Fur Farm in Simcoe, Ontario. We approached the fur farm and... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Strike in Colombia Highlights Free Trade Failure

  

  By Dave Johnson / Campaign for America’s Future There is a big strike in Colombia, and you probably don’t know about it. Farmers and others are protesting over ... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Klee Benally on Decolonization and Anti-colonialism

  by Deep Green Philly While in Flagstaff I caught up with the very busy Klee Benally who was gracious enough to sit down and discuss, among other interesting... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• “The Worst Attack on Public Lands Across the Country in a Generation”

  

  By Diane Dietz / The Register-Guard With some low-population Southern Oregon counties on the verge of insolvency, the Oregon congressional delegation seems... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Peruvian Campesinos Tear Down Mining Gate

  By Earth First! NewsA gathering of campesin@s tore down a gate at the site of the controversial Conga Copper Mine in Peru on August 20. Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Activist Group Black Fish Using Drones to Defend the Ocean from Driftets

  

  by Alex Chitty / ViceThe Black Fish’s founder Wietse van der Werf. Photo by Chris Grodotzki.On a warm night in July 2012, off the island of Ugljan in the... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• ConocoPhillips to Use Drones in Alaska

  

  by Ryan Koronowski / Think ProgressCredit: (AP Photo/University of Alaska Geophysical Institute, David Giessel)The FAA issued an approval in July that paved... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Ecology of a Police State

  

  Or, why hating cops may be the most environmentally sustainable decision you can make in your lifeby Panagioti, Earth First! Newswire  The police state in effec... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Ex-Worker #8: Prison Abolition

  

  From Crimethinc.Though a week late (sorry!), the eighth episode of the Ex-Worker is our longest yet, and wraps up our series on prisons and police, as we look a... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Anti-Pollution Protest Blocks Industrial Port in Oman

  

  Image Credit: Courtesy: Monitor of Human Rights in OmanCross Posted from World BulletinOmani police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who blocked a port i... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Wyoming First: No Bids for Coal Mining Tract in Powder River Basin

  

  By Scott ParkinBy Laura Hancock / Billings GazetteAt 10 a.m. Wednesday, U.S. Bureau of Land Management employees in Cheyenne gathered to unseal envelopes... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Coal Port Faces Huge Obstacle in Lummi Opposition

  

  By Floyd McKay / Crosscut Lummi master carver Jewell James is taking another ceremonial totem pole on a long trip, but this time it won’t be going as a healing... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Genetically Pure Bison Returned to Fort Belknap After a Century Away

  

  from Indian Country Today Media NetworkRion Sanders/Great Falls TribuneRead more at... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Lawsuit: Company Lied About Coal Ash Dangers

  

  “At one point, workers were told ‘you could drink fly ash daily and suffer no adverse health effects,’ according to the complaint …. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• TWAC Maine October 19th-21st!

  

  from TWACTrans and/or Womyn’s Action Camp, October 19 – 21. Augusta region, Maine. Who: TWAC is an action camp for folks who identify as female and/or trans,... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation?

  

  By Jonathan Latham / GreenMedInfoImage: GreenMedInfoImagine an international mega-deal. The global organic food industry agrees to support international... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Meet the Activists Who Just Humiliated Monsanto

  

  © AP Cross Posted from Policy Mic Last Thursday, an intriguing press release from “Monsanto Global” was sent out to to the email inboxes of media organizations... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Green Scare Lite

  When the Feds Come Knocking on the Climate Movement’s Doors Scott Parkin for Counterpunch In 2003, my friends and I organized a forest defense campaign against ... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT