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• California Gripped By Driest Year Ever — With No Relief In Sight

  

  wildfires, plus "potentially catastrophic year for the Central Valley" where 1/3 of all produce in the US is grown Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Wyoming Oil Refinery May Inject Wastewater Underground

  

  Long-term exposure to high levels of selenium in drinking water can cause hair and fingernail loss and circulation problems, according to the U.S.... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Grassy Narrows Logging Plan Approved

  

  This logging will further erode the Aboriginal and Treaty Rights of the community which depends on the forest to sustain their families and to practice their... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• New Penan Blockade Against Oil Palm Plantations

  

  Forty Penan families, from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, are blockading in protest against the Shin Yang logging and oil palm plantation company for... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Salford Anti-Fracking Camp Enjoys Local Support

  

  "We are not really equipped for walking slowly in front of every lorry," explained Hilda's husband, Brian, 75. "But we like to help out any way we can," said... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Happy Holidays From Cancer Alley

  

  Flares are nothing new to the residents of Norco, especially in the Diamond community, where toxic air pollution has long threatened an African... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Did Enbridge Use Toxic Chemicals to Clean Up Their Oil Spill?

  

  The clean-up operation has spanned more than three years, cost over a billion dollars, and removed significantly more oil from the river than the company will... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• “Not Nothing”: New Statement from Grand Jury Resister Jerry Koch

  

  "I will not cooperate. I will not be institutionalized. No compromise in this." Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Stolen Land: Nigerian Villagers Want Their Land Back from Wilmar

  

  Nigerian villagers swindled out of rainforest land, then cut down for palm oil Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• All I Want for Christmas is a Union That Fights Climate Change

  

  by Gary Engler / rabble.ca For those of us in the labor movement, tis the season to ponder what good our unions can do in the upcoming year and to renew our... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Megaload Stalled Again as Indigenous Ceremony Honors Tradition of Resistance

  

  In which weather stops the megaload and Indigenous ceremonies reign Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Chicago Rising Tide ‘Elves’ Protest Fracking on Governor’s Lawn

  

  10-foot oil drill, made of PVC pipe and painted black Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Tree Sitters Don’t Buy Logging Designed To Mimic Nature

  

  from OPBLast year, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs to a private company called Roseburg Forest... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Massive Protests Rock Mexico as Oil Industry “Opened Up” to Heavy Extraction

  

  Privatization of Mexico's oil industry reverses revolutionary constitutional reforms and opens up tar sands-like exploitation Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Alberta Transitions Environmental Regulation to Industry-Backed Group

  

  "This is just another step going down this road — we now have a regulator whose prime mandate in legislation is to promote economic development, and it is now... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Rest in Peace, Avalon

  

  My friend, fellow activist and codefendant William C. Rodgers, known to those who loved him, as Avalon took his life on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2005. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Grand Jury Resistor Jerry Koch Bids for Freedom

  

  An anarchist jailed since May on civil contempt for refusing to answer grand jury questions has asked a federal judge to free him, arguing that he has proved... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Whitehouse Weighs Seismic Exploration in the Atlantic

  

  Obama Administration is weighing a decision expected to be announced in the next three months on whether to take an important early step: to allow seismic... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Earth First! Winter Solstice Newsletter Now Available!

  

  Earth First! News #13: Yule 2013 compiles three months of news from the front lines of ecological resistance. Download the free pdf, or view online. As always,... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT

• Salmon Residents Receive Death Threats Over Wolf-Hunting Contest

  

  Several in the town of 3,000 say they've received threatening e-mails and Facebook messages from all over the world. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 ENVIRONMENT