In what is being billed as the biggest act of climate change civil disobedience in history, a group of 70 environmental activists, including Bill McKibben and Dan Choi, are sitting-in near the White House and being arrested to protest the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline....
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Fantastic J. Malcolm Garcia piece at Guernica about the use of burn pits in Afghanistan. Essentially, the military burns everything they use in Afghanistan and Iraq. This includes everything from.
Greenpeace is launching a major new campaign against the tuna industry, built around the massive deaths to other species caused by the way albacore tuna is caught: Longlines are just.
The border fence is such a disaster. Here's yet another example: Flooding caused by a border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and without regard for the environment, critics say. Debris and water backed up at the fence...
Kudos are in order for David Wolman, whose High Country News piece on "accidental wilderness," militiarized landscapes that unintentionally become spaces that protect large numbers of wildlife, just won a.
At Alternet, Tara Lohan has a really interesting long interview with radical environmentalists Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay, who have published a new book where they call for.
The White House and the major automakers have come to a deal that would raise auto efficiency requirements to as high as 54 mpg by 2025. The automakers were not happy about this and tried a media blitz to counter it. I suspect they eventually...
Since writing at LGM, I’ve focused pretty heavily on labor issues over my other field of expertise—environmental issues. There’s a good reason for that and there's a less good reason..
I have an article at Global Comment on fracking, expanding on some of the themes I've discussed here over the past few weeks. Regarding Andrew Cuomo's appointment of leading environmentalists.
Again, I just have a really hard time understanding why we don't trust the energy industry to look out for our best interests? In 2007, Berry Energy Inc. of Clarksburg began drilling a conventional, vertical gas well in a section of the Fernow Experimental Forest,...
NPR had a fantastic story on Friday about the relationship between fracking and the cluster of earthquakes earlier this year in Arkansas. Many local residents blamed the gas companies for.
I have long had tremendous difficulty understanding the opposition of fossil fuel companies to new fuel technologies. For instance: The oil and gas industry gave astrophysicist Willie Soon more than.