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• Nuclear Waste Dump May Explode, Pacific Northwest Screwed

  

  Cross posted from SFGate Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• More Charges Brought Against Tar Sands “Megaload” Protesters in Moscow, Idaho

  

  Cross Posted from Wild Idaho Rising TideAs some of the last five of over 70 massive parts of an Alberta tar sands upgrader plant rumbled through the small,... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Seven Things You Learn Driving the Length of the Keystone XL Pipeline

  

  by Brad Plumer / the Washington Post We’ve heard a lot about the Keystone pipeline these past few years — which, if approved, would carry oil from the tar... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ready to Get Wrenched?

  

  A new documentary about the past, present and future of eco-resistance is on its way outFrom the filmmakers’ website: Wrenched captures the passing of the monke... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Eostar Newsletter 2013 Released!!!

  

  EostarNewsletterWelcome to the newest EF News!This PDF contains compiled news events for the first quarter of this year. Earth First! News (EF!N) is a project o... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Russian Street Artist Found Dead

  

  It’s sad, because Pasha 183 was very cool, and his art was very radical, but also fun and positive. No details have been released regarding his death, which... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Tar Sands Protestors Chain Themselves To Canadian Consulate Doors

  

  Cross Posted from TarSandsBlockade.orgTwo Seattle residents have chained themselves to the doors of the Canadian Consulate in downtown Seattle today protesting... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Fatal Landslide Draws Attention to the Toll of Mining on Tibet

  

  By EDWARD WONGBEIJING — One after another, the bodies have kept coming. By Wednesday, rescuers had pulled 66 dead miners from the snow-covered rubble. They... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecuador to Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest to Chinese Oil Companies

  

  Ecuador is planning to auction off three million of the country’s 8.1 million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, Jonathan Kaima... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Amazon Dam Activists Threaten to Wage War on Brazil Over Military Incursion

  

  Brazil dam row – local activists march past machinery being used in the construction of the massive Belo Monte hydroelectric dam. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Tim Griffin, Arkansas GOP Rep, Stands By Keystone After Mayflower Oil Spill

  

  by Luke Johnson / the Huffington PostRep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) said Wednesday that he wasn’t backing off his support of the Keystone XL pipeline, just five... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• In Guatemala State Violence is on Trial but Repression Continues

  

  A stone cross commemorates the death of Andrés Francisco Miguel, who many believe was a victim of Guatemala’s ongoing political repression. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• How the Tar Sands Are Crushing Science in Canada

  

  by George Dvorsky / IO9The Canadian government is currently under investigation for its efforts to obstruct the right of the media and public to speak to... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Oglala Sioux Tribe Passes Resolution to Oppose TransCanada’s KXL Pipeline

  

  by Owe Aku International Justice ProjectPhoto from Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way) gathering last month, Moccasins on the Ground, a three-day training on the Lakot... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Message from the Earth First! Warrior Poets Society

  

  The EF! Warrior Poets Society recently began keeping up a website, Armed With Visions.com which features hundreds of poems by dozens of biocentric poets. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Exxon’s Duck-Killing Pipeline Won’t Pay Taxes To Oil Spill Cleanup Fund

  From think progressA technicality has spared Exxon from having to pay any money into the fund that will be covering most of the clean up costs of its Arkansas... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Tree Sitters Blocking Willits Bypass Route Pulled from Trees

  

  Cross Posted from The Willits News Early morning scene at tree sitter Amanda “Warbler” Senseman’s tree just after she had been taken away in a patrol car. Will... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Arkansas Nuclear Plant Incident Kills One, Injures Eight

  

  A 25-year-old man was killed on Sunday after part of a generator fell while being moved at the Arkansas Nuclear One plant. Eight others were injured during the... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• After Three Year Fight 14-Story-Tall Gas Tank Defeated

  

  From Bangor Daily News Developers withdraw proposed Searsport tank applicationSEARSPORT, Maine — Opponents of a controversial liquid propane gas terminal and... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Chesapeake Energy to Abandon Fracking in the Marcellus!

  

  * Big shout out to Marcellus EF! which helped drive Chesapeake out of the area!Cross Posted from NPRThe nation’s second-largest natural gas producer,... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 ENVIRONMENT