EPA ‘environmental justice’ tour of Eastern Kentucky rankles coal industry and its allies Posted 22 August 2011, by Deloris Foxworth, The Rural Blog, irjci.blogspot.com Environmental Protection Agency officials met with leaders and other residents of four Eastern Kentucky communities last week to discuss the environmental impact of coal mining on their communities. Residents [...]
Archive for August 23rd, 2011
23 Aug
Monsanto and the Mortal Danger to Traditional Agriculture
Monsanto and the Mortal Danger to Traditional Agriculture Posted 21 August 2011, by Siv O’Neall, OpEdNews, opednews.com The greatest threat to the future of food production in the world is the introduction of genetically engineered foods from the bio-tech industry. Contrary to their mendacious propagandized promises of solving the problem of world [...]
23 Aug
Did Obama Order Tar Sands Protesters Jailed?
Did Obama Order Tar Sands Protesters Jailed? Posted 22 August 2011, by Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake, firedoglake.com Dan Choi, Bill McKibben and Scarecrow have now spent two nights in jail courtesy of the DC police for an offense that routinely equates to a parking ticket. According to Ted Glick over at Grist, the [...]
23 Aug
Tr-Ash Talk: State of Failure
Tr-Ash Talk: State of Failure Twelve states lack any regulation of coal ash toxic waste Posted 17 August 2011, by Raviya Ismail, EarthJustice, earthjustice.org Yes, we’re still waiting. And while we wait for comprehensive federal standards that regulate toxic coal ash, we have some more bad news about the state of states’ [...]
23 Aug
Veneta pays respect to indigenous grandmothers
Veneta pays respect to indigenous grandmothers Posted 20 August 2011, by Angela Brauer, KMTR TV News (Newport Television LLC ), kmtr.com VENETA, Ore. (KMTR) – Dozens paid tribute to the indigenous grandmothers Saturday at Still Point Farm’s second annual Mother Earth Festival. Vendors showed up with healing and massage services and also [...]
23 Aug
A New Kind of Law Beyond Entailing Law: The Ensemble Approach
A New Kind of Law Beyond Entailing Law: The Ensemble Approach Posted 22 August 2011, by Stuart Kauffman, National Public Radio (NPR), npr.org Two posts ago, in “The End Of A Physics Worldview: Heraclitus And The Watershed of Life,” I agued, I believe correctly, that no law entails the detailed evolution of the biosphere, [...]
23 Aug
Another 52 Americans Arrested to Ask Obama to Stand Up to Big Oil
Another 52 Americans Arrested to Ask Obama to Stand Up to Big Oil Posted 22 August 2011, by Staff (Tar Sands Action), Censored News, bsnorrell.blogapot.com www.tarsandsaction.org WASHINGTON, DC — Another 52 Americans were arrested at the White House this morning for taking part in an ongoing sit-in to push President Obama to stand up to [...]
