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Environmental Disaster

Animal Abuse, Oil Leaks, and the Freedom of the Press

Lisa Wade | Posted 04.09.2013 | Media
Read More: Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights Activists, Freedom of the Press, Animal Rights, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Environmentalism, Environmental Disaster, Oil Companies, Journalism, Media News
Lisa Wade

Corporations, and governments too, have an incentive to limit the freedom of the press. These are powerful entities, often in cahoots, that can and will ignore the First Amendment when they can get away with it.

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Massive Stretches Of Oil Spotted In Gulf Of Mexico

Nola.com | Matthew Hinton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, Massive Stretches of Oil, Gulf Oil, BP Oil, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Gulf Oil Spill Damage, Environmental Disaster, Green News

Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf ...

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Franketienne: Haiti's First Nobel Laureate - Hopefully

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Marcel Duret, French, Voodoo, Unesco, Mario Benjamin, Emmelie Prophete, The Trap, Environmental Disaster, Literature, Sado-Masochism, Andre Breton, Gran Makout, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia, Memoire D'encrier, Jim Luce, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, CUNY Graduate Center, Chaos Theory, Haitian-Americans, Abstract Work, Tragic Clown, Thought Leader, Apocalypse, Baron Samedi, Artist for Peace, Surrealism, Carlton University, Rachel Douglas, Japan, Papa Doc, Cultural Area Studies, Vodou Pantheon, Nobel Prize, Noble Laureate, Ile en Ile, Thomas Spear, Brooklyn Public Library, University of Liverpool, Earthquake, Poetry, Kaiama L. Glover, Intellectual, Giulietta Masina, Kabuki, Creole, Galaxie Chaos-Babel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, City College of New York, Author, Seanna Sumalee Oakle, Stewardship Report, Evens Anozine, Jlsr, Marie Coron, Port-Au-Prince, Vodou Priest, University of Nebraska, Baby Doc, Luce Index, Emmanuel Duogene, Duvalier Regime, University of Maryland, Alvina Ruprecht, Stanford L. Luce, Lewdness, Beatrice Coron, Artist, Death, Alessandra Benedicty, Haiti, New York City, France, Columbia University, Caribbean, Franck Etienne, Playwright, Painter, Global Citizen, Flowers of Insomnia, Mary Cobb Wittrock, January 12, Musician, Guede, Franketienne, Melovivi, Wordplay, Scatologu, Arts News
Jim Luce

As a cultural area studies graduate, seldom do I feel over my head culturally. Standing in the home of possibly the next Nobel Prize recipient for Li...

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Energy Fuels Has Money For New Uranium Mill, But Not A Cleanup

Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Colorado Mining, San Miguel, Uranium Mill, Montrose, Pinon Ridge Mill, Energy-Fuels-Inc, Paradox Valley, Uranium Mine, Environmental Disaster, Cleanup, Denver News

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Books On The Oil Spill Start To Surface

New York Times | Julie Bosman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Book Publishing, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Books, Environmentalism, Deepwater Horizon, BP Oil Spill, Reading, Environmental Disaster, Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Books News

Any readers clamoring to relive the oil-darkened spring of 2010 will have plenty of opportunity. Publishers have bought at least six books relating to...

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New Photos Show Oil-Soaked Dolphins Struggling in Barataria Bay, Louisiana

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Billy Nungesser, Benzene, Media Blackout, Bp, Oiled Dolphins, Dolphins, Admiral Thad Allen, Coast Guard, Gulf of Mexico, Lousiana, Obama, Toluene Lori DeAngelis, Barataria Bay, Environmental Disaster, British Petroleum, Toxic-Chemicals, Corexit, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

There are no published photos or videos that we've been able to find, no stories that describe the oil-encrusted dorsal fins and odd behavior that suggest an under-reported environmental catastrophe.

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An Environmental Disaster We CAN Avoid: Canadian Mining in Guatemala

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Mining Disaster, Paula Todd, Stephen Harper, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Gold Mining, Ctv, Canada, Environmental Disaster, Water Contamination, Poison, Human Rights, Water Pollution, Goldcorp, Mining, Water, Environment, Guatemala, Green News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

The disaster of BP should be a lesson to the world: stop environmental abuses before they escalate to unmanageable levels. In other industries, the same inevitable environmental destruction must be avoided.

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Gulf Oil Spill Reporting: Cue The Hyperbole

Craig Medred | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Alaska, Media, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill Reporting, Tony Hayward, Dust Bowl, Big Oil, Environmental Disaster, Media News
Craig Medred

Are reporters in this country really this historically ignorant, or is this all just about hyping the story of the moment? The "nation's worst environmental disaster"? Who decided that?

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Why America Suffers From One Catastrophe After Another and Why It Will Keep Happening

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: War Crimes, 2000 Election, Arizona Immigration Law, Terrorism, Disasters, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, BP Oil Spill, Rule of Law, Disaster Management, Barack Obama, Torture, Gulf Oil Spill, Environmental Disaster, Immigration, Sb 1070, Politics News
Anis Shivani

9/11. Enron. Katrina. Wall Street. The BP spill. There seems no end to it, and the reactions are always parallel. Obama is no different in how h...

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ExxonMobil to Launch Takeover Bid for BP So as Not to Fall Into Second Place for Pollution

Bill Allen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Exxon-Valdez, Bp, Oil Spill, Humor, Gulf of Mexico, Environment, Takeover, Environmental Disaster, Gulf Coast, Comedy News
Bill Allen

According to ExxonMobil's CEO: "It is our duty as Americans to recapture this important record for the Red, White and Blue. No one should foul our beaches and destroy the lives of the people of the Gulf Coast except an American company."

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Quebec Fires Cast an Eerie Haze Over New England's Memorial Day

Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Smoke, Soldiers, San Francisco Gate, Environmental Disaster, Quebec, Quebec Forest Fires, Hurricane Katrina, Haze, World War II, Haiti, Mayor Thatcher Kezer, Green News
Susan Deily-Swearingen

As I gave thanks for the soldiers and veterans on Memorial Day, I thought too about how we as citizen soldiers in the fight against environmental catastrophe should try to emulate their valor.

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Earth Day Atonement: 10 Environmental Disasters to Remember

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, Bhopal, Dirty Coal, Buffalo Creek Disaster, Species, Extinction, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Uranium, Love Canal, Donora Smog, Mountaintop Removal, Black Mesa, Coal, Environmental Disaster, Exxonmobil, Native People, Earth Day, Climate Change, Global Warming, Earth Day 2009, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Ten tragic lessons in our nation's environmental history that should never be forgotten. And one climate destabilization tragedy in the making that needs our urgent help.

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The New Survivalism

New York Times | Alex Williams | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: The End of the World, Environmental Crisis, How to Survive an Apocalypse, Apocalypse, How to Survive a Hurricane, How to Survive an Environmental Disaster, How to Survive an Earthquake, Apocalypse Now, Survivalism, How to Survive, Housing Crisis, How to Survice the Apocalypse, Duck and Cover, How to Survive Nuclear Attack, Environmental Disaster, Emergency Preparedness, Healthy Living News

THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned g...

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