November 2011
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URGENT! 24 HOURS LEFT: STOP THE SECRET FARM BILL... →
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For the past several weeks, rumors of a “Secret Farm Bill” being hatched behind closed doors in Washington between only a handful of legislators and industrial agriculture lobbyists have been leaking out of Congress. Last week those rumors hit panic mode.
According to multiple sources in DC, the most corporately entrenched Senators and Representatives of the Ag committees are...
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Occupy Earth | Chip Ward →
[When] there’s money to be made, both workers and the environment are expendable. Just as jobs migrate if labor can be had cheaper overseas, I know workers who were tossed aside when they became ill from the foul air or poisonous chemicals they encountered on the job.
The fact is: we won’t free ourselves from a dysfunctional and unfair economic order until we begin to see ourselves as...
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Monsanto UK Hacked →
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Reference No.: 2 Monsanto April 1998 **Confidential** **Internal Official Use Only** Reference Sheet On Pesticide Use * Of all insecticides used globally each year, the amount used on cotton: 25%. * Number of pesticides presently on the market that were registered before being tested to determine if they caused cancer, birth defects or wildlife toxicity: 400. * Amount of...
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Obama administration greenlights 500 oil drilling... →
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Drilling will commence summer 2012 in the Chuckchi Sea, where Alaska and Russia meet. Environmental groups fume. Shell pleased. Rare species at risk.
Here is a round up:
Approves former President Bush’s stalled plans to drill in Arctic
Earth Justice sues
Native Alaskans are pissed: “We have a right to life, to physical integrity, to security, and the right to enjoy the...
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“The Keystone XL pipeline doesn’t help. This pipeline would move dirty oil from...”
– Retired Brigadier General Steven Anderson, Tar sands pipeline will comfort our enemies - The Hill’s Congress Blog (via cwnl)
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Dimock, Pennsylvania Residents Will Stop Receiving... →
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Pennsylvania environmental regulators said Wednesday they have given permission to a natural-gas driller to stop delivering replacement water to residents whose drinking water wells were tainted with methane.
Residents expressed outrage and threatened to take the matter to court.
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has been delivering water to homes in the northeast village of Dimock...
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City in Wisconsin Seeks to Outlaw Bicyclists &... →
In what is not an alternative draft of the screenplay for Footloose but an actual news item, a town in Wisconsin has moved to solve its bicycle and pedestrian safety issues by making a simple law: No more walking and biking. It looks like the city of Hull may just become the least green city in the entire world.
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The Arctic Sea may be free of ice in ten years →
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The melting of the Arctic sea ice is progressing much faster and more dramatically than earlier estimated, according to new research by the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI).
This means that the Arctic Sea could be free of ice in the summer in ten years time, rather than the 50 to 100 years estimated earlier.
NPI mesurements made by moored sonars show a dramatic reduction...
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Republicans Propose Uranium Mining in Grand Canyon... →
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Republican lawmakers led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) proposed legislation today to open 1 million acres of public lands that form Grand Canyon National Park’s watershed to new uranium mining. The bill would overturn an existing moratorium on new mining and mining claims and block Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s proposal to extend those...
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“They tell you we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can...”
– Slavoj Zizek (via cultureofresistance)
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House Passes Incinerator Bill That The EPA Warns... →
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Less than an hour after passing the so-called Protect Life Act to guard the unborn, the House of Representatives passed a bill that the EPA warns will kill thousands of people prematurely.
House Republicans argued that the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 was a “timeout” from long-delayed regulations aimed at mercury that threatened to raise costs on boiler operators...
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According to the UN Environment Programme, the... →
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