Tag: Featured News
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Water Samples Show Disturbing Levels of Heavy Metals from Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill
[This is the third article in a three-part series. Read part one, read part two.] Today Waterkeeper Alliance and Yadkin Riverkeeper issued the results of water sampling from the Dan River in the wake of the third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history. A certified laboratory analysis of Waterkeeper’s samples, completed today, reveals that the water…
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Iceland Violates Global Trade Ban on Whale Products, U.S. Considering Sanctions
Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell issued a formal declaration that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora’s (CITES) and its prohibition on international commercial trade in whale products. Conservation and animal welfare groups commend Jewell’s declaration and urge President Obama to act with…
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Senior Officials Accused of Skewing Science to Benefit Keystone XL Pipeline
Managers within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) overrode their scientific experts to adopt an inaccurate map based upon a flawed model that significantly shrank the range of an endangered species, according to agency investigative reports released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The managers not only retaliated against scientists who voiced…
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Another Victory Strengthens Local GE and Pesticide Bans in Hawaii
Center for Food Safety (CFS) yesterday welcomed the committee defeat of SB 110, a bill that would have circumvented the legislative process for the so-called “Right to Farm” Act in Hawai’i. SB 110 would have stripped local control over agriculture and replaced it with a “one size fits all” policy dictated by the state. “This is…
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Exclusive: Duke Energy Ongoing Coal Ash Spill Into Dan River
In the wake of what may be the third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, Waterkeeper Alliance deployed a disaster response team to assess the damage and monitor remediation efforts by Duke Energy and the of North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The team, which included staff from Waterkeeper Alliance, Yadkin Riverkeeper…