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• America’s Most Contaminated: Radioactive Waste Leaks into Northwestern River

  

  Re-posted From RTFebruary 23, 2013 00:31 Radioactive waste is leaking from six underground tanks at America’s most-contaminated facility in Washington, the... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Gang of Greek Activists Torched the Skouries Gold Mine

  

  Re-posted from Vice A torched truck at the Skouries forest gold mine.Last Sunday, 50 masked men armed with Molotov cocktails stormed a gold mine in northern... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Video Shows Arizona Wilderness Areas Destroyed by Border Patrol Vehicles /...

  

  (Español abajo)Center for Biological DiversityTUCSON, Ariz.— Conservation groups today released a video depicting off-road vehicle damage caused by Border Patro... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Video Shows Arizona Wilderness Areas Destroyed by Border Patrol Vehicles

  

  Nuevo Video Muestra Áreas Silvestres Destrozadas por Vehículos de la Patrulla Fronteriza (Español abajo)TUCSON, Ariz.— Conservation groups today released a vide... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• From the Secret Vaults of the BLM: Hip-Hop Land Management

  by Russ McSpaddenThe Bureau of land management, or (mis)management if you will, oversees 264 million acres of public lands for multiple uses including long... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Documents Confirm Toxic Tar Sands Waste Leaking into Groundwater

  

  By: Carol LinnittCross Posted from: Vancouver ObserverAccording to an internal memorandum obtained by Postmedia’s Mike De Souza, the tailings ponds holding... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Exhibit at Oregon Historical Society Occupied by Activists in Climate Justice...

  

  On February 17, dozens of concerned citizens expressed solidarity with climate protests around the country by occupying the Oregon History Society Museum’s... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands Profiteers

  

  Letter and invitation from TSB organizer Ramsey Sprague:Last week I was arrested at a pipeline industry convention where TransCanada was lecturing on pipeline... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• NextEra Wind Project Kills Eagle in First Month of Operation

  

  As many local environmental groups have figured out, industrial-scale wind turbines are bullshit and must be fought for the fraudulent false solution they... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth First! Journal Ruffles the Right Wing

  

  Here at the Earth First! Newswire, we generally strive to steer clear of identifying along the Left/Right political spectrum, but we can’t help make note of som... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Point / Counterpoint on U.S. Jaguar Habitat…Rabinowitz Vs. Provilitis

  

  by Tony Davis / the Arizona Star Blogging in the DesertIn Saturday’s Star (2-9-2012), I had an article on noted jaguar biologist Alan Rabinowitz’s fierce... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• A Mining Executive, A Missing Millionaire and the Weird Politics of U.S. Jaguar...

  

  By Panagioti Tsolkas / Earth First! Journal Collectivefrom left to right: Thomas Kaplan, an American jaguar, Alan RabinowitzThomas Kaplan isn’t your average... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Time is Short: Principles of War and Strategy

  

  Cross posted from Deep Green Resistance News ServiceBy Alex Budd / Deep Green Resistance CascadiaWhy are we losing?Why, after 40 years of struggle, education,... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Urgent Call to Action – Support the Treesitter Blocking Tennessee Gas Pipeline

  

  Reblogged from Croatan Earth First!: Reposted from hudsonvalleyearthfirst Tree clearing has already begun for the Tennessee gas pipeline in Milford, PA... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Sea Shepherd Activists Clash with Japanese Whaler in Southern Ocean

  

  Cross Posted from the Guardian Anti-whaling activists say a Japanese whaling ship has rammed two of their vessels, marking the first clash of this winter’s... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Nevada Tribes Protest Bear Hunts

  

  By Ed Vogel /LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU From left, Martin Cueva, Ocelotl Ortiz and Pete Casillas Jr. perform a Round Dance in front of the... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• TransCanada Downplays Keystone XL Protests

  

  By TALIA BUFORD / Politico TransCanada’s Alex Pourbaix says the opposition to the project is ‘not a surprise.’ Two days after climate activists rallied on the... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Chinese Environmental Official Offered Reward To Swim In Polluted Ruian River

  

  by Sara Gates / the Huffington PostTrash clogs up a polluted canal at the edge of Beijing on March 16, 2012. China said that two-thirds of its cities currently... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Obama Administration Finalizes Polar Bear Extinction Plan

  

  by the Center for Biological DiversityWASHINGTON— After months of high-profile statements about climate change, the Obama administration today finalized a... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Willits Treesit Still Kicking Ass in California (Video)

  Pretty decent mainstream corporate media coverage from Dumpster Muffin to Warbler at Willits, with some sweet hippy mandolin jammin’ b-roll to boot. The cops ar... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 ENVIRONMENT