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• Swamp Line 9 Locks Down and Rallies After Receiving Injunction

  

  At the front gate. #SwampLine9 #SovSummer #tarsands #pipelines #NoLine9 #IdleNoMore (at Enbridge Westover Station)After 5 days of stopping work on Line 9 at... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Elsipogtog Blockade Halts Seismic Testing, Community Member Hit by Car,...

  

  By Miles Howe / Dominion PaperBy Sunday, June 23rd, SWN Resource Canada’s highly contested and protested seismic testing along highway 126, in Kent County, New... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Obama’s Climate Speech Will Surely Be Full of Shit

  

  by Madame Beaubama, Clairvoyant at Arms / Earth First! NewsTomorrow President Obama will deliver a speech on climate change at Georgetown University. You can... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• An Open Letter to Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen from a Member of the Earth...

  

  by Sasha RossYour recent article, published in Counterpunch on the summer solstice, opens up the space for much discussion. While we’ll all hopefully look back... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• BREAKING: Activist Has Climbed Inside Enbridge Tar Sands Pipe in Michigan

  

  by Rabb!t / Earth First! NewswireChris “The Whammer” at the pipe entrance.Early this morning Chris “The Whammer” Wahmoff climbed inside a segment of Enbridge’s... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Tasmania Defended: The World Celebrates the Success of Community Action to...

  

  from The Observer TreeThe decision today by the World Heritage Committee to approve the extension to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is testament t... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• BREAKING: Construction of KXL Pump Station Shut Down in Oklahoma

  

  Construction of Keystone XL pump station shut down in largest action yet by the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance.from Great Plains Tar Sands... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Police Cut off Willits Protester from Food and Water

  

  This incident occurred on the third day that Red-Tailed Hawk has been perched on a stitcher, blocking Willits bypass construction and protecting critical... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Experimental Geoengineering Could Create Food Scarcity

  

  by Martin Lukacs / The Guardian Two Harvard engineers are to spray sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using ... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Victory! Grassroots Organizing Stops Massive Strip Mine in VA

  

  By Skyler Simmons, Southern Appalachians EF! Newswire CorrespondentIt has been a long, hard fight but residents of the small coalfields town of Appalachia, VA... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Sabotage Against Shell’s Pipeline in Erris, Ireland

  

  by Andrew Flood / Glyko SymoritisYesterday morning around 50 Shell to Sea campaigners kicked off the Week of Action against Shell’s experimental high pressure... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Monsanto in Puerto Rico

  

  from RTMonsanto has been under fire lately, and things aren’t much different in Puerto Rico. The biotech giant is being criticized for refusing to testify at a... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Monsanto Points to Sabotage at GMO-contaminated Wheat Field

  

  from RTMichael Doane, Monsanto’s wheat industry affairs director, looks at growth in a wheat field in an undisclosed location in North Dakota in this undated... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• EPA Refuses to Finalize Study Blaming Water Pollution on Fracking

  

  The article below reports on the EPA’s refusal to publish data on the health effects of fracking in the United States. This is nothing more than a political mov... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Welcome to “Prosperity”: Violence Against Women in the Bakken Oil Fields

  

  by Jay Taber / Intercontinental Cry Magazinefrom Maven’s PhotoblogAs CNN reported in October 2011, the oil boom at the Bakken formation in the Dakotas and... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Privacy Tools Raise Red Flag for Intelligence Agencies

  by Andrew Leonard / SalonUse privacy tools, go directly to jail. OK, that’s not exactly the bombshell revealed by Thursday’s installment of leaked NSA documents... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Possible New Leak at Hanford State, Higher Radioactivity Levels Detected

  

  Cross Posted from RTA tank containing highly radioactive waste may be leaking into the soil at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation (the US’s most contaminated... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Red-Tailed Hawk High Up In Stitcher for Second Day

  

  from SaveLittleLakeValleyRed-Tailed Hawk spent a second day aboard the contraption called a “wick drain stitcher”, perched about half-way up the crane on which... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth First! Summer Solstice Newsletter Now Available!

  

  Welcome to the newest edition of the EF! Newsletter, Earth First! Newsletter #11: Litha 2013. This PDF contains compiled news events for the second quarter of... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• So-Called Nuclear Renaissance Never Leaves the Ground

  

  by Mandy Hancock / Cleanenergy.orgDespite much fanfare about the so-called nuclear “renaissance” over the past several years, not much has actually materialized. Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 ENVIRONMENT