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For Some in Congress, It's Easier To Censor Than Hear Americans
“They are blowing up my homeland,” said West Virginia coalfield resident Maria Gunnoe on Monday morning, in her sworn testimony on the impacts of mountaintop removal mining before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. I feel the vibrations of the core driller in the floors of my home; and the impacts…
Read MoreFriday Finds: Worried About Herbicides? Eat More Broccoli!
Monsanto’s new broccoli designed to fight company’s own environmental pollution Perhaps dismayed by the public’s outcry to genetically engineered (GE) crops and their environmental effects, last October America’s favorite biotech company, Monsanto, released a non-GE product that combines two different types of broccoli to create a sort of super broccoli that’s chock-full of nutrients, reports Grist.…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: TVA Corporate Culture Unjustified
The TVA Kingston trial has gotten off to a interesting, yet unsettling start. The trial consists of five cases, representing 250 plaintiffs who are suing TVA over the 2008 coal ash disaster that occurred in Knoxville, TN. Testimony began last week, and proceedings are expected to continue anywhere from the next few weeks to the…
Read MorePreparing To Stop Shell's Latest Arctic Scheme
The Palmyra Atoll is a tropical coral reef island in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. It’s warm, tiny and far from the vast, frigid Arctic. And yet these distant, disparate places are as alike in one sense as any two places on Earth. Each is an early victim of humankind’s addiction to fossil fuels…
Read MoreFriday Finds: Bacon Grease Blues
Chinese food regulations go down the gutter Some restaurants in China are taking Mom’s sage advice to reuse the bacon grease to a new, hazardous level, reports Time magazine. Recently, Chinese authorities announced a crackdown on so-called “gutter oil,” the resale of used cooking oil that’s been snagged from sewers or complacent restaurant owners. In…
Read MoreElwha Dam Removal Brings Hope To Northwest Salmon
This week, workers began tearing down two massive dams on Washington’s Elwha River. Together, the 108-foot high Elwha Dam and the nearby 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam have stood for nearly a century — as barriers between seven distinct native salmon runs and their natal streams in the Olympic National Park. The removal and restoration, hailed as…
Read MoreHouse Passes TRAIN Act/Wreck
We all deserve to breathe clean air, but the House of Representatives today acted as if our air doesn’t need to be quite so clean. Guided by Rep. Eric Cantor’s toxic dirty-air agenda and a host of political paybacks to dirty-industry campaign contributors, the House passed a bill to block the Environmental Protection Agency from…
Read MoreUnplugged: Why Won’t Target Follow the Law?
Target has made headlines lately for its customer service debacle involving the launch of a designer line, but, unfortunately, the company’s woes with customers seem only to get worse. Today, Earthjustice filed a citizen complaint with the Federal Trade Commission because the company has withheld from its customers important energy information on appliances. Congress has…
Read MoreAmerica's Best Idea Is Gasping For Air
Our National Park system—the first in the world—has been dubbed “America’s best idea.” But that great idea, which offers millions a respite from our industrialized life, is now beseiged more than ever by a symptom of that life—smog. The National Parks Conservation Association published a report last week showing that the number of bad ozone…
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