Invasive species introduced and spread via ballast water discharge are already wreaking havoc on the Great Lakes and other U.S. waters. A litany of non-native invaders—including zebra mussels, quagga mussels, spiny water fleas…
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Arsenic in Organic Foods Reveals a Wider Problem for All Food Production
Organic Trade Association
02-22-2012
Arsenic is a natural element that can contaminate soil, as well as groundwater used for drinking and irrigation. Legacy residues from decades of routine use of arsenic-based herbicides and insecticides pose…
New York Supreme Court Justice Phillip Rumsey ruled today in favor of the right of Dryden, New York, to adopt zoning that prohibits natural gas drilling within its borders in Tomkins County…
Polar bears—like other Arctic species including beluga whales, narwhals and walruses—are already under severe pressure in the Arctic from climate change. In just 30 years, the Arctic has lost 75 percent of its sea ice, and temperatures in the Arctic are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth…
Groups Challenge EPA’s Air Pollution Discharge Permits for Shell’s Arctic Drillships
Earthjustice
02-21-2012
“The EPA approved these permits without ensuring that all air quality standards are met, and as such our only option is to challenge them in court. Although the Clean Air Act requires modern pollution controls that…
Food isn’t just good business for Walmart—it’s the cornerstone of the company’s public relations offensive. The report analyzes Walmart’s ambitious campaign to convince skeptical local governments and communities that…
ACTION: Encourage the USDA to Stand Up for Consumer Interests, Not Cave to Pesticide Lobby
Environmental Working Group
02-21-2012
Your tax dollars paid for the government’s pesticide tests. Stand with EWG today to make sure the USDA tells us the whole truth about pesticides on our food. Last year, we launched an investigation into the Alliance for Food…
Methyl iodide causes late term miscarriages, contaminates groundwater, and is so reliably carcinogenic that it’s used to create cancer cells in laboratories. It is on California’s official list of known carcinogenic chemicals and has…
Potomac Riverkeeper Appeals Quarry Permit that Threatens Drinking Water
Potomac Riverkeeper
02-21-2012
A coalition of organizations representing environmental, historical and community interests filed an appeal Feb. 21 in Berkeley County Circuit Court challenging a permit to allow quarrying on North Mountain…
The property, known as the Osceola Plantation, features one of the largest natural lakes in the coastal region. The tract’s unique and diverse habitat features coastal prairie, river bottom forests, freshwater wetland and open water…
Smart Green Infrastructure Takes Center Stage at Malaysia Tiger Forum
World Wildlife Fund Global
02-21-2012
The pressures on the pockets of habitat where tigers are still holding on will only increase as the growth boom in Asia continues push outward, reaching formerly pristine tiger and wildlife habitat. As wildlife and park authorities…
Babies born in warm months were more likely to have higher levels, which, when coupled with the methymercury findings, suggest that fish consumption is the culprit. Mercury can easily pass from a mother…
EXCLUSIVE: As Fracking Boom Hits Ohio, Deceptive Industry Practices Squeeze Landowners
Erika Eichelberger
02-20-2012
Kasich says environmental protections and regulations are important to him, but the free-for-all so far has meant people and the environment have suffered. Not only has the process has been linked to earthquakes and water contamination in the state, but the industry’s deceptive leasing practices are increasingly causing alarm among Ohioans…
Japanese Whaler’s Injunction Against Sea Shepherd Denied in U.S. District Court
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
02-20-2012
The court also expressed displeasure with the Japanese whalers for filing an injunction against Sea Shepherd while appearing to be themselves in violation of an injunction issued by the Australian Federal Court. This injunction prohibits the whalers from hunting whales in the Australian Whale Sanctuary…
As the human population has climbed past seven billion, and the consumption per person of everything from burgers to blue jeans has risen inexorably, the finiteness of Earth’s freshwater is becoming ever more apparent….
‘Shadowlands’ Photographs Highlight Human Cost of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Greenpeace International
02-20-2012
Greenpeace launched ‘Shadowlands’ on Feb. 20, a presentation of haunting photographs depicting the impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the plight of people displaced by the crisis, and a warning to others that…
Rather than “thinking about what has happened” the Institute is now trying to gag websites from using the information. It has sent legal notices to numerous Web sites, blogs and publications asking them to take down documents…
The Clean Water Act has done more to restore the health of our rivers and streams than all other laws combined. So why are many or our rivers and streams in decline? Well, the problem has three parts…
There are now thought to be less than 10 spotted owls in the wild in British Columbia (BC). Both the BC and federal governments have pledged to bring the Canadian population of spotted owls back from the brink of elimination…
How Will Obama’s EPA Budget Proposal Affect Water Quality Programs?
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
02-20-2012
President Obama’s FY2013 EPA budget proposal targets nutrient pollution, sedimentation and loss of shoreline vegetation as major water quality concerns, with a focus on agriculture as a major contributor to water…
Government of the United Kingdom Holds Emergency Water Summit as Region Faces Drought
Friends of the Earth United Kingdom
02-20-2012
The green campaigning charity says that the drought crisis has been a long-time coming, as successive Governments have consistently allowed the over-abstraction of water from several English rivers and ignored the problem of…
In Puerto Rico, activists are set to march this weekend against the government’s plan to build a natural gas pipeline that would intersect the island…
Protesters to Keystone XL Pipeline: Don’t Mess With Texas
Natural Resources Defense Council
02-19-2012
The raucous protest included an unusual mix of tea party supporters, independents, Democrats, Republicans and even Occupy Dallas protesters. They were all there to support Crawford’s eminent domain court fight with TransCanada, which wants to run the Keystone XL pipeline through her property…
The funding issue is a scam. Even the most generous revenue estimates from this reckless expansion of drilling will not be enough to fund proposed transportation projects in the bill. In addition, what small amounts of…
Tea Party and Environmental Groups Tell Transcanada ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ over Eminent Domain Claims
Sierra Club
02-17-2012
“This is a private company taking land for private use and foreign profit. They are cloaking themselves in common carrier regalia and exercising eminent domain against Texas citizens but there is no evidence that…
Environmental Leaders React to President Obama’s $3.8 Trillion Budget
Ohio Environmental Council
02-17-2012
Ohio Environmental Council Air Quality The Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) is proposed to get $15 …
Two years into the implementation of the state’s clean energy law, which sets standards for both renewable energy and energy efficiency, Ohio saved enough electricity each year to power 82,000 homes, among other significant benefits…
EPA Releases Major Report on Health Effects of Dioxin
Center for Health, Environment & Justice
02-17-2012
EPA has been under enormous pressure by environmental health, environmental justice, labor, health-impacted, and Vietnam Veterans organizations to release the non-cancer health assessment in recent weeks…
Despite what oil executives want us to believe, the industry doesn’t have the technology to recover spilled oil in the Arctic. They don’t have the scientific data to understand the ecosystem in the Arctic Ocean…
On this side of the Atlantic, shale gas has the potential to become an economical lifesaver. On the other hand, it could prove to be an ecological calamity—hence the banning of shale gas extraction in France and Bulgaria…
