Tag: Featured News
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Netflix: Please Stream BIDDER 70
In 2008, climate activist Tim DeChristopher, disrupted a controversial a Bush-era Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction by successfully bidding on parcels totaling $1.7 million. DeChristopher’s bidding effectively safeguarded 22,000 acres of pristine Utah land. Even though the auction was later deemed illegal, DeChristopher’s heroic act of non-violent civil disobedience got him…
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Tell Gov. Brown and DOC: Ban Fracking in California
[caption id="attachment_313002" align="alignright" width="303"] Celebrities, including Hayden Panettiere, ask “What the Frack?”[/caption] From the Sacramento Valley to Los Angeles County, fracking is quickly expanding across California, polluting local air, threatening local waterways, accelerating climate change, eroding property values and creating tremendous amounts of toxic waste. The California Department of Conservation (DOC) is accepting public comments on its…
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ALEC Attacks EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standards at December Summit
By Aliya Haq This week, the polluter-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its annual meeting in D.C., and the obstruction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) progress to reduce carbon pollution is front and center on its Environment Task Force agenda. ALEC conferences create a space for corporations and conservative lawmakers to…
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U.S. Wildlife Services Kills 1.5 Million Animals Each Year With No Public Accountability
The Center for Biological Diversity and allies petitioned the Obama Administration today to reform the federal wildlife-killing agency known as “Wildlife Services,” which kills nearly 1.5 million coyotes, bears, otters, foxes, birds and other animals each year without any requirement to disclose its activities to the public. [caption id="attachment_314068" align="alignnone" width="500"] Under various names, Wildlife Services has…
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Breaking: 900,000 Dead, Thousands More Maimed
Will a death toll of 900,000 be the body count it takes for the public to finally say enough, already? Or will it also take another set of grisly photographs of maimed bodies, deformed skulls, misshapen mouths and twisted spines? The breaking news out of Wilmington, NC today has both. Unfortunately, this latest episode is…