Tag: Featured News
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U.S. to Allow Seismic Airgun Testing for Offshore Drilling Exploration, Will Threaten Marine Life
Yesterday, the U.S. government released a final proposal to allow the use of controversial seismic airguns to look for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean floor in an area twice the size of California, stretching from Delaware to Florida. According to the Department of the Interior (DOI), these dynamite-like blasts are expected to injure and possibly kill large…
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California Farmers Demand Fracking Moratorium
California farmers, grappling with a record drought that’s parching their fields and livelihoods, call on Gov. Brown (D-CA) to place a moratorium on the water-intensive extreme oil and gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Yesterday afternoon, Shafter almond farmer Tom Frantz, California State Grange President Bob McFarland and Monterey County vintner Paula…
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4 Arrested at Cumberland Courthouse in Protest of Cove Point Fracked Gas Export Plan
A local Unitarian minister and three western Maryland residents were arrested just before Noon today outside the Allegany County Courthouse in Cumberland for peacefully protesting Virginia-based Dominion Resources’ plan to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point in southern Maryland. [caption id="attachment_323617" align="alignnone" width="500"] Cove Point protest in Cumberland. All participants expressed…
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Inspector General Clears State Department of Conflict-of-Interest in Keystone XL Report
Yesterday, the inspector general concluded that the U.S. State Department did not violate conflict-of-interest rules with the selection of Environmental Resources Management (ERM) to conduct environmental assessments of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, according to the L.A. Times. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told the L.A. Times that the inspector general “found that our processes not only…
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Organic Farmer Taken to Court for Refusing to Spray Pesticides
The French agriculture ministry is prosecuting Emmanuel Giboulot, an organic winemaker, for failing to apply insecticide to his vines. The ministry wants insecticide to be sprayed to control the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus—believed to be responsible for the spread of the grapevine disease—but Giboulot believes the pesticide is ineffective and damaging to pollinating insects such as bees,…