Environmental Protection

Secrets Revealed: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement

Ilana Solomon | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Environmental Protection, Trans-Pacific Partnership Tpp, Trans Pacific Partnership, Trade Environment, Trade Environment Tpp, Green News
Ilana Solomon

The Sierra Club is deeply concerned about the environmental implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, many parts of which could directly undermine efforts to strengthen environmental protection while also putting the U.S. economy and workers at risk.

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Why Arrest Paul Watson in the First Place?

Peter Jay Brown | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Environmentalism, Paul Watson Environment, Paul Watson Oceans, Paul Watson Japan, Environmental Protection, Green News
Peter Jay Brown

Maybe now is the time for those in power to strike back, and what better symbol than Paul Watson?

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What's In the Name 'Environmentalist'?

Joel Reynolds | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Salmon, Angloamerican, Riotinto, Biogems, Nrdc, Alaska, Environmentalist, Sanonofre, Gregory Canyon Landfill, Pebble Mine, Keystone XL, Natural Resources Defense Council, Toll Road, Environmental Protection, Green News
Joel Reynolds

I care less about what people call themselves than which side they're on. In fact, I spend much of my time these days working with people in Alaska who don't consider themselves environmentalists -- and have no aspirations to be.

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The Attack on the Environment Must Stop

Bob Deans | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Gop Environmental Record, Green Initiatives, Environmental Initiatives, House of Representatives, Environment, GOP Congress, Environmentalism, Gop Environmental Cuts, GOP House, Green Bill, Environmental Protection, Green News
Bob Deans

Since Republicans gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives following the 2010 elections, the body has waged the single worst legislative assault in history against the foundational safeguards we all depend on to protect our environment and health.

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Earth Day, Conspiracy and World Government

Seth Baum | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Earth Day 2012, Earth Day, Climate Change, Environmental Research, Earth Governance, Environmental Protection, Green News
Seth Baum

The behaviors we need to protect the environment are not particularly oppressive. Indeed, many are things we'd want to do anyways. But they're often a big change from what we're currently doing.

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An Homage to Heroes

Anthony Strano | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Trees Oxygen, Gandhi Environment, Forests Trees, Environmental Protection, Trees, Green News
Anthony Strano

This is just to say a great thank you, to express gratefulness to the green heroes of our planet, the trees who silently and gallantly do their duty. The heroes who are the lungs of Humanity, whose existence facilitates our own. I bow to their sacrifice.

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Conflicts Continue Over Resources in Panama -- Two More Indigenous People Killed

Veronique Pittman | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Land Rights, Central America, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Panama, Indigenous People, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Protection, World News
Veronique Pittman

Over the past three months there has been increased tension in the Wounaan communities of Eastern Panama due to illegal loggers invading their lands.

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Arise Honors Earth's Female Caretakers

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Arise, Environmentalism, Documentary, Darryl Hannah, Food Security, Arise Documentary, Environmental Issues, Environmental Documentaries, Environmental Protection, Video, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Arise is both a documentary and an ethnographic study of women from around the world who share a profound intellectual and spiritual understanding of what it takes to live in harmony with the environment.

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Don't Let the Lights Go Out on Environmental Journalism

Alex Formuzis | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Environmentalism, Environmental Policy, Environmental Journalism, Green Reporting, Green Journalism, Environmental Protection, Green News
Alex Formuzis

In the entire state of California, there is now only one AP reporter whose full time on the environment.

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Colombia To Ramp Up Sanctions Against Environmental Abusers

Reuters | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Colombia Environment, Colombia Industries, Video, Colombia, Colombia Oil, Colombia Economy, Colombia Ecosystems, Environmental Protection, Colombia Environmental Protection, Reuters, Green News

* Government wants to up fines for damaging environment * Colombia to clamp down on abuses by communities * Investors la...

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You're in Trouble!

Byron Kennard | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Public Health, Synthetic Chemicals, Green, Political Corruption, Corporate Lobbying, Food Contamination, Satire, Environmental Protection, Comedy News
Byron Kennard

So dangerous levels of BPA turned up in the urine of humans who consumed your soup?! So what?! That's no reason for you to go ballistic. If there are any liability issues here, PISS has you covered. Here's how.

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The Longevity Revolution: Time to Get Out and Change Things

Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Jane Fonda, New Year's Resolutions, Tedx, Gray Is Green, Longevity, Mary Catherine Bateson, Environmental Protection, Green News
Wendy Gordon

There are countless stories of women of all ages taking up the cause of a positive future. Tell us yours. And let's make 2012 the banner year for women's environmental activism.

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Some Lawmakers Claims Protected Wildlife Areas Are 'Highways For Criminals' Along Border

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Video, Environmental Protection US-Mexico, Environment Border, Environment, Environmental Protection Border, Border Security, US-Mexico Border, Environmental Protection, Green News

WASHINGTON — Federal agents trying to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border say they're hampered by laws that keep them from driving vehicles on huge sw...

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Spearing Sacred Cows

Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Politics News, Epa, Deregulation, Jobs, Unemployment, Safety Regulations, Health Regulations, Environmental Protection, Politics News
Rep. Keith Ellison

Last week, I was on MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes about jobs, the Occupy Wall Street movement and other issues. During the show I said that some regulations have created jobs.

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It's Sustainability Stupid

Marcelo Mena | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Chile, Chile Economy, Sustainability, Chile Sustainability, Chile Politics, Chile Protests, Chile Environmentalism, Chile Student Protests, Environmental Protection, Green News
Marcelo Mena

How did a country like Chile, that was on the path to development, all of a sudden start questioning the very basis of their economic model? The answer lies in sustainability.

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TVA Ash Spill Trial Underway

AP | By BILL POOVEY | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Tva Ash Spill, Tennessee Valley Authority Coal Ash Spill, Epa, Environment, Tva Coal Ash Spill, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tva, Environmental Protection, Green News

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A federal judge on Thursday began hearing from both sides in the legal battle over whether the Tennessee Valley Authority should p...

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Boob! Why Don't You Buck Like Thunder?

Susie Bright | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Marie Antoinette, Obama Jobs Speech, Congress, Middle Class, Newspapers Closing, Environmental Protection, Wealth Distribution, Libraries Closing, Politics News, Infrastructure, Plutocrats, Unemployment, Vaccination Shortage, Public Sacrifice, Iww, Banana Republic, Wobblies, Gilded Age, Class Warfare, Politics News
Susie Bright

If I were president, I would not be making a speech about jobs. This is Superman time: Lights, Camera, Shut-up, Action. I'd do something or die trying.

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Unfair Trade Policy: A Gift That Keeps on Giving

Cynthia Dill | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Paulmaine, Corporations, Corporate Greed, Corporate Social Responsibility, Landfill, Fair Trade, Lepage Maine Governor, Environmental Protection, Politics News
Cynthia Dill

What do you get when you mix bad trade policy, unregulated multinational corporations, economic insecurity and a hard-working Maine community desperate for jobs?

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The Political Power of Environmental Protection

Steven Cohen | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Love Canal, Local Politics, Hydraulic Fracking, Fracking, Politics of Environment, Epa, Environment, Green, Green Issues, Environmental Protection, Green News
Steven Cohen

The effort to paint environmental protection as an anti-business government boondoggle bumps up against the reality of environmental degradation. People can see and smell a foul environment.

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Yes Virginia, There Is a P in EPA: Lisa Jackson, American Super Hero

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Lisa Jackson, Green House Gases, Environment California, Global Warming, Coal, Environmental Working Group, Barack Obama, Environmental Protection, Epa, Carbon, The Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Virginia, Auto Emissions, Tuna, Climate Change, Environment, Mercury, BP Oil Spill, 112th Congress, Mountain Top Removal, John Boehner, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Every super hero has a nemesis, and the EPA's Jackson has the 112th Congress under the leadership of John Boehner doing everything it can to stop progress toward fuel efficiency and clean energy.

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Being Thankful for Clean Water: and the People and Laws that Protect it

Steve Fleischli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Water, EPA Budget, World Water Day, Environmental Protection, Clean Water Act, Sanitation, Green News
Steve Fleischli

Water is a human right. But without strong laws, dedicated resources and competent water and sanitation workers, so many of us in the U.S. would not have the relatively inexpensive and high quality water we do have.

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Budget Wars in Washington: The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Collective Bargaining, Family Planning, Fracking, Jetsons, Opec, Budget, Universal Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Coal, Environmental Protection, Conservative, Flintstones, Middle East, Mining, Liberal, Drilling, Oil, Natural Gas, Unions, Hanna-Barbera John Boehner, Politics News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Just as the futuristic Jetsons and the Stone Age Flintstones met up in the 1987 cartoon, "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones," two camps with wildly different mindsets are meeting on the floors of Congress.

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Travelers of the World Unite: Stop the Wars

Judie Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Passports, Leadership, Political Parties, Somalia, Pakistan, Laid Off, Peace, Gandhi, Politics, Muslim, Old, Travel Advice, Ireland, Portugal, Religious, Top Chefs, Libraries Closed, Tunisia, Luggage, Natonal Museum of the Marine Corps, Brazil, Mandela, Afghanistan War, Behind-the-Scenes, Business Owners, Sustainability, India, Teachers, War Machine, Egypt, Proteecting Animals, Outback, Patagonia, Norway, Iraq, Thailand, Countries, Culture, Restored Sites, Government, Off-the-Beatenpath, New Hotels, Vietnam, Values, Vietnam War, Travelers, Off-the-Beaten Trail, Greece, Italy, Customs, Young, Extreme Sports, Foreign Wars, War, Yemen, Habitats, Facebook, Environmental Protection, Actors, France, War in Afghanistan, Muslims, Wait Staff, Blog, Financiers, Museums, Sex, Non-Military Solutions, Communities, Secular, Iraq War, Afghanistan, Aboriginal, Travel News
Judie Fein

In short, we are opinion leaders, opinion makers, the vanguard of the modern wave of exploration.

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Obama Steps Onto Slippery Slope

Brian Czech | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Truth Teller in Chief, Steady State Economy, BP Oil Spill, White House, Barack Obama, Environment, Economic Growth, Gdp Growth, Wall Street Journal, Paradigm Shift, Job Creation, Monsanto, Environmental Protection, Politics News
Brian Czech

The trade-off between economic growth and environmental protection is the most inconvenient of all truths to acknowledge, but it's better than a slide down the slippery slope of green-growth rhetoric. That could be a legacy breaker.

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Never Retreat

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Policy, Administrator Jackson, Epa Administrator Jackson, Environmental Protection, Epa, Gop, Green News
Edward Flattau

Unlike its Republican critics, the EPA looks at both sides of the ledger and usually finds that the monetary value of its regulations' benefits far exceeds the costs.

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