Tag: Featured News
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As Fracking Expands in California, Water Board Refuses to Regulate Toxic Waste Disposal
As fracking threatens to expand drilling in California, a coalition of environmental justice and community health groups sent a letter yesterday challenging the legality of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board’s plan to keep letting oil companies dump toxic drilling-mud waste throughout the valley with minimal safeguards. Citing state environmental laws, the letter urges…
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Ecuadorians Fight for Justice in Landmark Chevron Trial, Danny Glover Visits Contaminated Rainforest in Support
American actor and activist Danny Glover arrived in Ecuador yesterday to visit an area of the Amazon rainforest were the multinational oil giant Chevron operated decades ago, and was sentenced by a local court to pay a multibillion-dollar fine for a massive environmental contamination, according to a CSR Wire press release. The actor will visit the former oil field Aguarico…
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Coast Guard Proposes Policy to Transport Radioactive Fracking Wastewater by Barge
By Emily DeMarco The U.S. Coast Guard, which regulates the country’s waterways, will allow shale gas companies to ship fracking wastewater on the nation’s rivers and lakes under a proposed policy published Wednesday. [caption id="attachment_310892" align="alignnone" width="500"] Industry officials say barges are the safest, and cheapest, way to move fracking wastewater, but a spill would…
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President Obama Issues Executive Order to Prepare U.S. For Impacts of Climate Change
By Rob Moore On Friday President Obama issued an Executive Order on climate preparedness, directing federal agencies to begin identifying and removing barriers to actions that would, “increase the Nation’s resilience to climate change while ensuring continued protection of public health and the environment.” Agencies have been given nine months to identify those barriers and report…
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13 Arrested Blocking Highway at Site of Spectra Energy Pipeline
Thirteen people were arrested yesterday for blocking the West Side Highway adjacent to the site where Spectra Energy has completed a natural gas pipeline entering Manhattan, NY from New Jersey. Thanks to the Environment TV crew for capturing this direct action on video. According to the Sane Energy Project, the “New Jersey-New York Expansion Project”…