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Private Security Walks Off The Job in Protest; Coal Company Goes Too Far

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, West Virginia, Epa, Mountain Top Removal, James Hansen, Daryl Hannah, Climate Change, Coal Mining, Coal, Tree-Hugger, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Policy, Environment, Green News
Jerry Cope

Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks spent the past week tree-sitting 80 feet above the ground in an act of civil disobedience protesting Massey Energy's mountaintop removal site there.

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Poudre River Tanker Crash Is Second In As Many Weeks

The Fort Collins Coloradoan | Trevor Hughes | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Tanker Crash, Epa, Poudre River, Colorado Highway 14, Environmentalists, Asphalt, Tankers, Denver News

A second loaded tanker in as many weeks crashed into the Poudre River on Thursday morning, spilling an estimated 5,000 gallons of liquid asphalt and a...

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SIGG Should Apologize, Offer Refunds to Consumers

Ken Cook | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Sigg, Corporate Ethics, Bisphenol A, Children's Health and BPA, Environment, Water Bottles, Chemicals, Epa, Green News
Ken Cook

Nothing SIGG CEO Steve Wasik has said changed my view about their discredited efforts to mislead consumers and retailers about its products.

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Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Pits The EPA Against Farmers

wsj.com | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, California Farmers, Drought, Endangered Species, California Drought, California, Farmers, Green News

California has a new endangered species on its hands in the San Joaquin Valley - farmers. Thanks to environmental regulations designed to protect the ...

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Verizon Wireless Dumped Glenn Beck: Will It Dump Bizarre Big Coal Sponsorship?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Nrdc, Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Coal Sludge, Human Rights, Ted Nugent, President Barack Obama, Verizon Wireless, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Glenn Beck, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Glenn Beck's controversial track record pales in comparison to Massey Energy's mining operations in Appalachia, which have literally displaced American citizens from their native homes.

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Syngenta, Maker Of Weed-Killer Atrazine, Wants Lobbying Documents Excluded From Class-Action Lawsuit

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Lobbyists, Lobbying, Atrazine, Politics, Weed-Killer, Syngenta, Chemical Company, Illinois. Class-Action Lawsuit, Business, Drinking Water, Herbicide, Green News

Lawyers representing the maker of the herbicide atrazine are asking that documents related to the company's lobbying and trade association activities ...

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Sounds of Silence in Appalachia: MTR Blasting Temporarily Halted

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, Don Blankenship, West-Virginia-Department-of-Environmental-Protection, Mountaintop Removal, Epa, West Virginia, Obama Administration, Climate Change, Joe Manchin, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Green News
Jerry Cope

On any given day, 3.5 million pounds of explosives blast apart the oldest mountain range on the planet. But for the past week there have only been sounds of silence.

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Environmental, Racial Clash In Alabama Over Tennessee Coal Ash

nytimes.com | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Coal Ash, Alabama, Tennessee, Epa, Green News

Almost every day, a train pulls into a rail yard in rural Alabama, hauling 8,500 tons of a disaster that occurred 350 miles away to a final resting pl...

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Call Now: Verizon Wireless Sponsors Union-Busting Mountaintop Removal Rally?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Labor Day, United Mine Workers, Ted Nugent, Sean Hannity, President Barack Obama, Climate Change, Communication Workers of America, Verizon Wireless, Environmental Defense Fund, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, West Virginia, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Verizon and a British Lord are joining forces to deny climate change and fight unions.

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You're Not the King of Me: Midwest Gen Runs Afoul of the Clean Air Act

Henry Henderson | Posted 09.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Natural Resources Defense Council, Epa, Chicago, Midwest Generation, Department of Justice, Pollution, Air Pollution, Coal, Clean Air Act, Lisa Madigan, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

Filing a lawsuit against the folks responsible for filth-spewing, coal-burning relics in Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods.

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Why We Need to 'Sell' Environmentalism

Lisa P. Jackson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: The Fight for Clean Water, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa, Pollution and Respiratory Problems, Clean Water, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Green Living, Air Pollution, Selling Environmentalism, Environment, Hurricane Katrina, Green News
Lisa P. Jackson

To confront the urgent environmental challenges of the 21st century, we need to make sure that every community sees their stake in this movement.

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This Week In Green: Water Scandals, Whole Foods Anger, KFC's "Double Down" And More

Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Slidepoll, Green Stories, Epa Water, This Week in Green, Kfc Double Down, Sigg Waterbottles, Kfc, Sigg, Green News
Katherine Goldstein

We had another interesting week in green news: everything from several alarming stories about tap water (and water bottles), to perhaps the most outra...

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Now is the Time, Al Gore: Coalfield Uprising and Heroes Need National Defense, Green Jobs

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Dirty Coal, Made in America Tour, Civil Disobedience, Green Jobs, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Blue Green Alliance, Coal, Van Jones, Epa, Appalachia, Protests, Mountaintop Removal, Repower America, Disney World, Climate Change, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Martha's Vineyard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Now is the time for all good greens, rednecks, social entrepreneurs, hellraisers, Repower America and Al Gore to come to the aid of their fellow citizens in the Appalachian coalfields.

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EPA Sues Power Company Over Six Illinois Coal-Burning Plants

Chicago Tribune | Michael Hawthorne | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Stopping Coal Power Plants, Dirty Coal, Midwest Generation, Coal, Lisa Madigan, Epa, Chicago News

From the outside, the power plant that towers above Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood looks like a sooty relic from the early part of the last century....

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Water Utilities Lack Proper Filters For Weed-Killer

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Iowa, Herbicide, Indiana, Epa, Ohio, Utilities, Filtration, Lawsuit, Syngenta, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Atrazine, Filter, Kansas, Weed-Killer, Tillery, Water, Missouri, Illinois, Drinking Water, Green News

Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer f...

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Outed! Will Obama Meet the Real FACES of Coal or Exposed Big Coal Front?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Faces, Nancy Sutley, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Ceq, Coal, DeSmog Blog, Fake Coalfield Faces, Coalfield Faces Stock Photos, Green News
Jeff Biggers

From forged letters to fake rallies, the revelations over Big Coal's public relations machinations continue. Today's candidate for the "bogus coal front of the week" is FACES, the Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security.

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Water Contamination In Wyoming Could Be From Natural Gas Drilling

ProPublica | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Water Contamination, Water, Epa, Natural Gas Contamination, Natural Gas Drilling, Contaminated Drinking Water, Drinking Water, Natural Gas, Green News

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination [1] near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three...

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Canadian Tar Sands or US Biofuel -- Guess Which One the US Government Prefers

Bob Dinneen | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Epa, Oil, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ethanol, Petroleum, Tar Sands Oil, Canada Pipeline, Renewable Energy, Canada Tar Sands Oil, Green News
Bob Dinneen

Just when we thought policymakers were serious about climate change, the State Department approves construction of a new petroleum pipeline with the sole purpose of importing tar sands oil to the U.S.

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Fearless Tree-Sit in Coal Blasting Area Calls Out Failed Regulations

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Tree, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Blasting, Nancy Sutley, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Ken Salazar, Ceq, Forests, Coal, Osmre, Green News
Jeff Biggers

In a stunning blow to mountaintop removal blasting operations in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia this morning, two fearless protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners.

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Danielle Ivory Discusses The EPA's Failure To Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water On "Democracy Now" (VIDEO)

Huffingtion Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Atrazine, Green News

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund recently published an article revealing that the EPA had failed to inform customers about the presence of a wid...

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EPA Fails To Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water (VIDEO)

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Atrazine, Weed-Killer in Drinking Water, Weed-Killer, Epa, EPA Atrazine, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Green News

One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water in four states, but water customers h...

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Actualities: Weed Killers in Your Water

Dan Agin | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Epa, Atrazine, Weed Killers, Fetal Development, Environmental Pollution, Green News
Dan Agin

The basic question for toxicologists and pediatricians (and for the EPA) is whether there is indeed such a thing as a "safe" concentration of a toxic substance for an embryo or fetus. My own view is no.

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The Clock has Started Ticking on Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits

Bruce Nilles | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountain-Top-Removal-Obama-Epa-Coal-Mining-Environment, Mountain-Top-Removal, Mining Appalachia, Epa, Green News
Bruce Nilles

We've just learned that the clock has started ticking on more than 80 new mountaintop removal coal mining permits in Appalachia. The EPA may start approving these permits within the next month.

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If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read About It, Right?

Paul Armentano | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: White House, Norml, Marijuana, Obama, Pot, California, Epa, Cannabis, Lung Cancer, Ucla, Alcohol, Brown University, Thc, Cancer, Legalization, Tashkin, Armentano, Living News
Paul Armentano

Investigators from Brown University reported that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a "significantly reduced risk" of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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When It Comes to Land Use Change -- Look at Oil

Bob Dinneen | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Oil, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Epa, Environmentla Protection Agency, Green News
Bob Dinneen

While the indirect, ripple impacts of our dependence on petroleum fuels are often well hidden, to ignore them altogether is irresponsible policy and questionable science.

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