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New Report Finds Fracking Poses Health Risks to Pregnant Women and Children

The report, Toxic and Dirty Secrets: The Truth about Fracking and Your Family’s Health, shows how chemicals related to the oil and gas industry when conducting fracking operations can pollute the air and water in communities around fracking sites and …

June 13, 2013
TransCanada Caught Training Police to Treat Nonviolent Keystone XL Protesters as Terrorists

“If TransCanada officials cannot be trusted to tell the truth about the peaceful nature of Keystone XL protestors, why should we believe they’ve told the truth about the integrity of their pipeline and the real threats it poses to the hundreds of rivers and creeks that it crosses?”

June 12, 2013
Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef

As the global demand for animal protein grew more than fivefold over the second half of the twentieth century, humans began to press against the productivity constraints of the world’s rangelands and oceans. Annual beef production climbed …

June 12, 2013
Study Reveals Disturbing Effects of GMO Feed on Pigs

Currently, no GE safety testing is required in the U.S. The long-term study revealed that pigs fed a GE diet suffered higher rates of severe stomach inflammation and had on average heavier uteri …

June 12, 2013
Worldwide Honey Bee Collapse: A Lesson in Ecology

We know what is killing the bees. Worldwide Bee Colony Collapse is not as big a mystery as the chemical companies claim. The systemic nature of the problem makes it complex, but not impenetrable. Scientists know that bees are dying from …

June 11, 2013