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GPS-Fitted Marine Animals Help "Write" Atlas In Patagonian Sea

Mother Nature Network | Bryan Nelson | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Policy, Sea, Animals, Atlas, Animal Protection, Marine, Environmental Protection, Green News

In putting together an atlas for one of Earth's least understood marine ecosystems, the Patagonian Sea, scientists had a novel idea: What if it could ...

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Should Wilderness Society Strip US Rep. Nick Rahall of the Ansel Adams Award?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Nick Rahall, Mo Udall, House Natural Resources Committee, Wilderness Society, Flooding, Mountaintop Removal, Edward Abbey, Lisa Jackson, Jack Spadaro, Coal, Environmental Protection, Smcra, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Rahall has turned his back on the mountains and mountaineers while more than 3.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives have ripped across the wilderness of his state every day.

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One Way To Preserve The Last Great Places? Endow Research Stations

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Nature, Ecology, Rainforest, Biodiversity, Conservation, Science, Evolution, Wilderness, Animals, Savanna, Environmental Protection, Africa, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

$3 million to endow a research station in perpetuity, to secure the continued flow of knowledge and to rest easy that passionate people will be around to advocate for many voiceless species? That's the bargain of the century.

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No More Mountaintop Removal

Rob Perks | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Water Protection Act, Mountaintop Mining, Mountaintop Removal, Mtr, Coal, Coal Mining, Mountains, Energy, Cleaner Coal, Environmental Protection, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Mining, Clean Water Act, Green News
Rob Perks

This week, more than 150 activists from around the country walked the halls of Congress, urging their elected leaders to end mountaintop removal coal mining.

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Why TVA Coal Investigation Matters: Interview with Former MSHA Investigator

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Coal, Mining, Big Coal, Clean Water, Tennessee, Kentucky, Clean Energy, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, TVA Coal, Environmental Protection, Tony Oppegard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

When wildfires consume beautiful homes in California, it headlines the evening news. But when thousands of people go without water for weeks in Appalachia, it's not "newsworthy."

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Salazar at the Interior Department: So Much at Stake

Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Wildlands, Public Lands, Oil Drilling, Green Transition, Obama's Cabinet, Salazar, Blm, Bureau Land Management, Wilderness Protection, Cabinet Appointments, National Parks, Interior Deparment, Ken Salazar Secretary of the Interior, Cheney Energy Task Force, Nrdc, Roan Plateau, NRDC Action Fund, Obama Administration, Obama Administration Environmental Policy, Bush Environmental Policy, Interior Department Corruption, Environmental Protection, Colorado, Ken Salazar and Interior Department, Interior Department Scandal, Bush Administration, Bush Ending Environmental Protections, Land Protection, Tom Gnojek, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Green News
Frances Beinecke

As Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar has to send a powerful signal that the era of unethical behavior and unchecked industry influence is over.

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Why Raul Grijalva Matters at Interior: Black Mesa Nightmare Redux

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dirty Coal, Dine, Obama Cabinet, Coal, Raul Grijalva, Department of the Interior, Hopi, Environment, Environmental Protection, Big Coal, Native Americans, Navajo, Green, Strip Mining, Arizona, Barack Obama Transition, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

For the sake of a balanced approached to mining, indigenous rights, and environmental concerns, let's hope U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva takes the reins at the Department of the Interior.

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