Tag: Featured News
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Exxon Pressures Government to Lift Restrictions on Oil Exports
By Farron Cousins It wasn’t long ago that the dirty energy industry and their friends in Congress and the media were screaming that we needed to open up every corner of America to oil and gas drilling in order to lower energy costs and help protect our country from oil-rich countries who don’t like the U.S. [caption…
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Wolf Killing Contest Disguised as Holiday Family Fun in Idaho
By Alicia Graef This year while most people will be enjoying a holiday break and winding down after Christmas, a hunters’ rights group in Idaho has something special planned to bring people together: it will be hosting the first predator killing contest in decades to take out wolves and coyotes the weekend of Dec. 28-29. [caption id=”attachment_315890″…
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16 Arrested Blocking Tar Sands Megaload in Oregon
On Monday evening climate justice groups stopped the movement of a controversial shipment of equipment bound for the Alberta tar sands. Concerned citizens locked themselves to two disabled vehicles in front of the 901,000 lbs load, blocking it’s route along highway 26 outside of John Day, OR. Police responded and arrested 16 at the two…
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16 Arrested Blocking Tar Sands Megaload in Oregon
On Monday evening climate justice groups stopped the movement of a controversial shipment of equipment bound for the Alberta tar sands. Concerned citizens locked themselves to two disabled vehicles in front of the 901,000 lbs load, blocking it’s route along highway 26 outside of John Day, OR. Police responded and arrested 16 at the two…
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Dolphins Suffering From Lung Disease Due to BP Gulf Oil Spill
Bottlenose dolphins in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay have lung damage and adrenal hormone abnormalities not previously seen in other dolphin populations, according to a new peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The Deepwater Horizon spill heavily oiled Barataria Bay. The study was conducted in August 2011 as part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) by…