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10/5/2013
Yesterday, organizations and citizens from across Michigan came together for a day of action in opposition to the bi-annual auction of publicly-owned mineral rights to oil and natural gas companies for
fracking.
Last October, the ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
1/5/2013
After serving 10 days of her 15-day sentence for trespassing during a
protest against
fracking, activist Sandra Steingraber was released from the Schuyler County jail last week in Watkins Glen, N.Y. The day before she was imprisoned, she talked ...
26/4/2013
Josh Fox`s 2010 documentary Gasland alerted legions of people to the dangers of
fracking and helped grow the movement against the drilling technique, which has created a natural-gas bonanza in many parts of the U.S. Now Fox is back with a sequel, ...
25/4/2013
Even the heads of fossil fuel companies read the polls. They know the majority of Americans see global warming as an imminent threat and a clear sign that the way we use energy must change. But instead of offering the solar and wind choices ...
22/4/2013
It's Earth Day 2013, and it's a good time to step back and see how we've been doing since the first one 1970. That's when 20 million people took to the streets to
protest rivers on fire, DDT-poisoned birds, sewage on beaches and a devastating oil ...
22/4/2013
Spain pushed back against European shale with a local vote in the northern region of Cantabria mounted a vote against the practice of hydraulic
fracking amid mounting concerns about its environmental impact.
While the vote is only a ...
21/4/2013
At a time when the debate over climate change is finally gaining post-election traction and hot topics such as
fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline have captured public attention, the documentary Bidder 70 is poised to showcase a movement that ...
19/4/2013
“I blocked the entrance to the Inergy gas storage facility because I believe that the institutions ... [that should] protect the people and the environment from harm can no longer be relied to do so ... When the government fails to act in the ...
12/4/2013
One icy morning in February, a train pulled into Washington DC. It was loaded with environmentalists planning to handcuff themselves to the gates of the White House, in
protest at the building of a 3,500km oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of ...
4/4/2013
Thousands of Romanians across the country
protested on Thursday against Chevron's plans to explore for shale gas, demanding the country's leftist government withdraw concessions and ban drilling of the U.S. company's first test ...
8/3/2013
Peter "Pete" Seeger is a 93-year old U.S. folk legend who resides near Wappingers Falls in southern New York. He can be spotted occasionally on the traffic-heavy Route 9, flanked by world peace signs and armed with a banjo.
Activists ...
7/3/2013
After years of clashing over the drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," the oil industry and environmentalists have achieved something extraordinary in Illinois: They sat down together to draft regulations both sides could ...
6/3/2013
Citizens from across the state converged on the Ohio Statehouse today to lobby for legislator support of proposed legislation that would protect Ohioans from the effects of hydraulic fracturing or
fracking.
Organized as part of ...
25/2/2013
The test of President Obama’s seriousness about addressing climate change is not his pending decision on the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline. It’s whether he effectively consigns coal-fired power plants — one of the biggest sources of carbon ...
21/2/2013
[Author’s note: On Sunday, Feb. 17, I marched with the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) at the Forward on Climate rally in Washington, DC. At one point, our banner, “Cook Organic Not the Planet,” caught the eye of a dairy farmer. He ...
20/2/2013
Canada`s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal.
The RCMP, the national police force, and Canada`s spy agency CSIS ...
20/2/2013
Gifford Pinchot, from Orange County, NY, is staging a tree sit on a suspended platform to prevent clearcutting for construction of the Northeast Upgrade Project of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) between Foster Hill and Cummins Hill roads in ...
20/2/2013
Editor's Note: As many as 40,000
protesters from 30 states participated in rallies Sunday in Washington, D.C., urging President Obama to curb pollution from fossil fuels, including tar sands; nix the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would bring ...
19/2/2013
In front of the White House early Sunday afternoon, a young man deftly scaled a small leafless tree, to the shock and dismay of the older activists around him. One police officer suggested that he come down, which he eventually did - only to be ...
18/2/2013
Is there room for more than one approach to pursuing energy and climate progress? I`d like to think so.
On various choices related to America`s, and the world`s, energy and climate future, I have a different view from those of many good ...
11/2/2013
New Yorkers
protest outside the NY Department of Environmental Conservation office encouraging employees to blow the whistle on wrongdoing during the NY
fracking process.
New Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) documents indicate that ...
4/2/2013
A war of words has broken out between environmentalists and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection over the cancellation of a meeting on the state`s testing of water from water wells near natural-gas drilling sites.
A ...
27/1/2013
1. I am writing you from an airport in Wisconsin.
People here, and across the river in Minnesota, are trying desperately to halt the strip mining of their communities for frac-sand. Trucks are rolling. Silica dust is flying. Hill by ...
27/1/2013
Residents of Western Pennsylvania and friends of Lawrence County farmer Maggie Henry locked themselves to a giant paper-mache pig today in the entrance to a Shell natural gas well site in order to
protest the company’s threat to local agriculture ...