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• Youngstown Pushes for Protections from Fracking, Earthquakes and Pollution

  

  Cross Posted from Frack Free MahoningThey’re back and more determined than ever to win on election day in November 2013. The Youngstown, OH, Community Bill of... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• US Marine Jets Drop Bombs on Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef

  

  By Kieran Campbell/ Herald Sun TWO US Marine Corps jets have been forced to drop four unarmed bombs on the Great Barrier Reef. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• UK Heatwave Melts Roads, Causes Wildfires, Kills 760 People

  

  By Tom Bawden / IndependentFarmers will be on high-alert this weekend as the heatwave threatens to unleash a wave of fires that could ruin crops across the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Climate and Clean Water Denials Leave Science with Splitting Headache

  

  By Sasha / Earth First! NewswireYesterday, two different scientific studies were released that were deliberately misleading. One called climate change into... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change Could Wipe Out Amazing Baobab Trees in Madagascar

  

  Photo: Baobab trees over water by Rita Willaert.by John R. Platt / The Scientific AmericanThe Ewe people of Togo, Africa, have a proverb: “Wisdom is like a... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• BREAKING: Chiapas Cancels ‘Disastrous’ Forest Carbon Offset Plan Linked With...

  

  from Friends of the Earth-U.S. The state government of Chiapas has cancelled a controversial forest protection plan that critics said failed to address the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Revealed: Gen. David Petraeus’ Course Syllabus Features ‘Frackademia’ Readings

  

  from DeSmog BlogRecords obtained by DeSmogBlogpertaining to City University of New York (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College’s hiring of former head of the Central... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Court Sides with Samut Sakhon Villagers

  

  By Janjira Pongrai / The NationSamut Sakhon villagers scored a major victory yesterday in their years-long legal battle against a coal production and... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• June 2013: Second Hottest June on Record

  By Bob Petz / EcologyLast month was the second warmest June on record, according to global surface temperature data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Revealed: The Full McDonald’s Tecoma Writs and Affidavits

  

  By Andrew Crook / Crikey Crikey has obtained the full suite of writs, summonses and affidavits lodged against community activists protesting against the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Accounting for Ourselves – A Review and Interview

  

  By Jen Angel / InfoshopHow do restorative and transformative justice processes work in practice?In April, the anarchist collective CrimethInc published a new... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Mapuche, Human Rights Activists Slam Argentina’s Chevron Deal

  

  By Deborah Ray / APThe Argentine government’s long-sought deal with Chevron Corp. to exploit shale oil reserves in Patagonia was strongly criticized Wednesday b... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Critical Assessment of Idle No More

  

  By Wendy Larat / Warrior PublicationsGood evening good peopleWith all due respect to the opinions expressed here I am in agreement with much of the posts I... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Canadian Ambassador BSes Way Through International Seal Products Meeting

  

  By Trashy / Earth First! NewswireGuy Saint-Jacques, Canada’s ambassador to China, was called to task on Tuesday by an international group of animal welfare... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• UPDATE: The FBI Is Approaching Seattle Climate-Change Activists

  

  Cross Posted from Slog Earlier this month, Ansel posted about climate-change activists who had supposedly been visited by FBI agents. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Asheville Grandparents Bring the Heat to Washington with a Protest March

  

  By Brandy Carl / MountainXWalking about 100 miles in the July heat of Washington, D.C., “shows a sense of purpose that, sometimes, letters themselves can’t... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The EnvironmentaLIST: The Most Dangerous “Model” Laws Written by ALEC

  

  By Cassady Sharp / Greenpeace BlogThe same law that contributed to George Zimmerman walking free out of a Florida courtroom last weekend after taking the life o... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• The Ascendancy of Camp Cascadia

  

  Cross Posted from Rebel Metropolis In protest of an EPA mandate to bury Portland’s historic water reservoirs, activists and organizers together with the... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• O’odham Protest Border Patrol Desecration of O’odham Ceremonies

  

  Cross Posted from CENSORED NEWSSELLS, Arizona — Tohono O’odham demanded an end to the desecration of their ceremonies, and the invasion and militarization of... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Utah NSA Center Requires 1.7M Gallons of Water Daily to Operate

  

  By Andrew Adams / KSL.comMore secrets, more water? The NSA data center in Bluffdale could require as many as 1.7 million gallons of water per day to operate... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 ENVIRONMENT