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• Wild Horse Controversy at Fallon Slaughter Auction

  

  Unbranded await hearing on August 21 to determine their fateby Laura Leigh / Wild Horse Education(Fallon) Today an auction of horses took place at the Fallon... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Time to Get Busy!

  

  This summer is getting crazy with tree-sits, blockades, and free states popping up across the country. Several groups have asked us recently to activate this... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Threats and Intimidation Used Against Mexican Anti-Incineration Groups

  

  from GAIACommunities organize to stop waste incineration in the state of Hidalgo(Please see this earlier post for background on this story –the Editors) Jorge... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecuador Approves Yasuni National Park Oil Drilling in Amazon Rainforest

  

  by Jonathon Watts / the GuardianEcuador has abandoned a pioneering conservation plan in the Amazon that attempted to raise funds from the international communit... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Removal of YouTube Tar Sands Satire Video Tied to Big Oil

  

  from Desmog Canada DeSmog Canada recently revealed Andy Cobb and Mike Damanskis – two political satirists in the spotlight for their ongoing spoofery of the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Proposed Elliott State Forest Land Sales Pit School Funding Against Environmenta...

  

  Environmental activists previously staged sit-ins, road blockades and protests at Elliott State Forest. A bill passed in the Oregon Senate Monday targets tree... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Arson & Coyote Release at Utah Wildlife Research Lab

  

  by Peter Young / Animal Liberation FrontlineOccasionally an Animal Liberation Front action (or one that bears its mark) will go both unclaimed and unnoticed by... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Lawsuit Challenges Plan to Log 150,000 Acres of California Old Growth Forests

  

  from the Center for Biological DiversityThree conservation groups filed a lawsuit earlier this week against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Blackfeet Tribal Council Says Energy Leases on Religious Site Canceled

  

  by David Murray / Great Falls TribuneThe Blackfeet Tribal Business Council issued a news release Wednesday stating proposed oil and gas leases near Chief... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fracking Protesters Gather for Six-Day Camp as Balcombe Drilling Suspended

  

  Cuadrilla scales back operation on advice of police, with up to 1,000 more campaigners expected in West Sussex Anti-fracking protesters set up camp near... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Dear Readers: Write to Us!

  

  Dear Earth First! Journal and Newswire readers,Image from Jen MontesAs you may or may not know, each issue of the Earth First! Journal has a letters to the... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• JTTF Approaches Anti-Fracking Activists

  

  Cross Posted from Croatan EF!This week in Maryland, the the Joint Terrorism Task Force visited the home of an activist in Maryland, regarding the Momentive... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Rad Events in the Southeast Supporting Earth First! Media

  

  from EF! NewswireSeveral great things are coming around the bend for folks looking to support Earth First! Media and the general EF! movement in the southeaster... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• With Impending Court Cases, Tar Sands Blockade Issues Call for Donations

  

  from Tar Sands BlockadeOn November 19 2012 in East Texas, Lizzie Alvarado, Ben Reynoso and Julie Henry climbed up sixty feet into trees to stop construction of... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• First New Carnivore Identified in Western Hemisphere for 35 Years

  

  “Olinguito” emerges from the mists of Ecuador, bringing 100 years of mistaken identity to an endby Ian Sample / the Guardian A small, wide-eyed beast with... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Pirate Bay’s New Censorship-Dodging Browser “Not Secure”

  

  from The RegisterSecurity experts have complained that The Pirate Bay failed to adhere to Tor security protocols, with one observer claiming the new browser... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Disposal of Marcellus Shale Fracking Waste Caused Earthquakes in Ohio

  

  from PhysOrgBefore January 2011, Youngstown, Ohio, had never had an earthquake since observations began in 1776. In December 2010, the Northstar 1 injection wel... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Residents Seek Environmental Justice in GA By Suing City for Decades of Sewage...

  

  Cross Posted from EarthjusticeA group of African-American citizens filed suit today against their city government in Rochelle, GA, for discharging the city’s ra... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Last Bobcat Freed from Montana Fur Farm

  

  by Peter Young / North American Animal Liberation Press OfficeBobcat imprisoned at Montana fur farm, 2009The Animal Liberation Front is taking credit for the... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• BLM Wants To Close Public Forest To Keep Out Enviromental Activists

  

  White Castle Tree SitBy Jessica Prokop / OPBThe Bureau of Land Management wants to close to the public more than 2,000 acres of forestland east of Myrtle Creek... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 ENVIRONMENT