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Groups Rally To End Tongass Forest Timber Sales

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Tongass Forest, Tongass Logging, Tom Vilsack, Protest, Logging, Alaska, Deforestation, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Forests, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Nearly a dozen conservation groups are appealing to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to put a stop to two timber sales...

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Green News Report - October 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Green Building, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Plastic Bottles, Coal, Barbara Boxer, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Green News, Logging, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their pred...

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Putting the Keystone Back on Our Wildlands Legacy

Carl Pope | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Logging, National Forests, Tom Vilsack, Roadless Rule, Logging-Rules, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Deforestation, Forests, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News

Vilsack acknowledged for the first time that climate change and fragmentation are a serious threat to the health of our forests.

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WATCH: Obama Allows Logging in Largest US Rainforest - Think of All the Jobs!

Lee Camp | Posted 08.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Tongass Forest, Tongass Logging, Logging, Alaska, Alaska Logging, Comedy News

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Obama Administration Approves First Roadless Logging Contract In Alaska's Tongass National Forest

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Tongass Forest, Logging, Tongass Logging, Clearcutting, Video, National Forest Logging, Alaska, Tom Vilsack, Alaska Logging, Green News

This week, the Obama administration approved the sale of timber in a roadless national forest in Alaska. The Tongass National Forest is a 17 million a...

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Judge Overturns Bush Administration Logging Rule

AP | JEFF BARNARD | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Logging, Bush Administration, Logging Rules, Owls, Northern Spotted Owl, Green News

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration's change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from...

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Protests Over Amazon Escalate In Peru

AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Protests, Peru, Amazon, Land, Oil, Gas, Indians, Amazon Indians, Oil Drilling, Logging, Mining, Large-Scale Farming, Alan Garcia, Bagua, Green News

BAGUA, Peru — President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sen...

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Jayhawks, Cardinals Should Be On Obama's Mind, Group Says (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green

Read More: March Madness, Video, Obama Environment, Mining, Environment, Logging, Conservation, Pollution, Animals, Roadless Conservation, Green News

A new video asks President Obama to pay attention now to the jayhawks, cardinals, wildcats and wolverines -- but not the basketball ones -- and to uph...

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Bush Administration's Logging Rule Reinstated

Los Angeles Times | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Mark Rey, Forest Service, Bush Environment, Logging, Deforestation, Green News

Matt Kenna, an attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center, said he didn't think the portion of the opinion dealing with standing was broad eno...

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NJ Beach Town Settles Amazon Wood Court Fight

AP | Posted 03.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Logging, Amazon, Ipe, Ocean City, Green News

OCEAN CITY, N.J. — A two-year battle over a New Jersey beach town's plan to buy boardwalk wood from the Amazon rain forest is ending. Ocean Cit...

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Fourth Sumatran Tiger Killed In Illegal Logging Battle, Says WWF

AFP | Posted 03.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Sumatran Tiger, Wwf, Logging, Endangered Species, Animals, Illegal Logging, Deforestation, Green News

JAKARTA (AFP) -- Indonesian villagers have trapped and killed a fourth endangered Sumatran tiger amid a spate of tiger attacks blamed on illegal loggi...

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Will Recycled Fiber Toilet Paper Become the Next Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb?

Laurie David and Allen Hershkowitz, Ph.D | Posted 03.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Save Trees, Green Toilet Paper, Toilet Paper, Pulp and Paper Industry, Carcinogens, Cfl, Logging, Green Living, Pollution, Recovered Fibers, Fresh Water, Recycled Paper, Trees, Green News

Toilet paper may not be the sexiest environmental issue, but it really is one of the most important.

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60 Percent Of Congo Logging Contracts Canceled By Government

TreeHugger.com | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Drc, Logging, Congo Logging Contracts, Deforestation, Congo, Green News

In an effort to deal with rampant corruption and rising deforestation, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has reviewed and canceled so...

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When A Tree Falls Illegally In The Forest

Jonathan Lash | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Logging, Deforestation, Logging Industry, Carbon Emissions, Illegal Wood Imports, Greenhouse Gases, Deforestation Policy, Illegal Deforestation, The Lacey Act, Climate Change, Pollution, Illegal Logging, Bush Administration Environment, Greenhouse Effect, Green News

The amended Lacey Act makes the United States the first country in the world to place an outright ban on illegally harvested wood products.

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Darfur Conflict Ravages Environment

Reuters | Andrew Heavens | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: UNEP, Khartoum, Green News, U.N., Darfur, Environment, Logging, Kunduwa Forest, Sudan, Darfur Sudan, Forests, Deforestation, Green News

Sudan's Darfur conflict has devastated the environment in the region, stripping forests and destroying farmland, according to a U.N. report. People c...

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Environmentalists Accidently Protest Beavers In Poland

Austriantimes.at | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Poland, Beavers, Environment, Huff Fluff, Logging, Foreign Affairs, Animals, Europe, Green News

via Austrian Times Green campaigners called in police after discovering an illegal logging site in a nature reserve - and rounded up a gang of beave...

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Bush's 11th Hour Bonanza

Mike Papantonio | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, George Bush, Energy Meeting, War, Mining, Logging, Regulation, 11th Hour, Dick Cheney, Uranium, Politics News

Cheney made good on his promise to slow the global warming debate, ordering federal employees to delete federal reports establishing that global warming was potentially catastrophic.

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Amazon Logging : Mob Attacks Government

planetsave.com | Derek Markham | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Protests, Logging, Amazon Logging, Amazon, Brazilian Indian Conflict, Green News

Thousands of people rioted on Sunday in Paragominas, Brazil, protesting the government's crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. The pr...

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Politicians Save

Reuters | Deborah Zabarenko | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Environmental Policy, Natural Resources, S Renewable Energy, Mining, Boreal Forest, Environment, Green News, Oil, Conservation, Logging, Climate Change, Deforestation, Global Warming, Canada, Green News

Politicians actually listened when experts told them to protect Canada's boreal forest, a potent weapon against global warming, and the plan for this ...

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Serena: This Fall's Most Dangerous Novel

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Wall Street Crash, Appalachia, Environmental Movement, Wall Street Crisis, Great American Novel, Novels, American Literature, Logging, Green Living, Thomas Wolfe, Ron Rash, Sarah Palin, North Carolina, Timber, Fiction, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, Media News

As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.

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Where's My Orangutan? Why Biofuels Don't Kill Apes

Josh Tickell | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Orangutan, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Future of Fuel, Sugarcane, Logging, Conservation, Malaysia, Future Fuel, Ethanol, Deforestation, Biodiesel, Soy, Green News

The next time you eat a cookie off of your Mahogany table that was brought to you on diesel-fueled transportation, consider this: everything you touch, everything you buy and everything you eat comes at a price.

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