Death of Michael Hastings
“Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources. Note — There is specific tasker from the WH to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda - See more at: http://agonist.org/#sthash.Srl7bN1W.dpuf
Chomsky: The U.S. Behaves Nothing Like a Democracy, But You'll Never Hear About It in Our 'Free Press'
Putin warns Cameron about siding with cannibals in Syria
InsideClimate News
“Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources. Note — There is specific tasker from the WH to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda - See more at: http://agonist.org/#sthash.Srl7bN1W.dpuf
Chomsky: The U.S. Behaves Nothing Like a Democracy, But You'll Never Hear About It in Our 'Free Press'
Putin warns Cameron about siding with cannibals in Syria
5 Reasons Why This Week Was Historic for Ending America's War on Drugs and Cruel Incarceration Policies
Police Destroy Organic Farm in Massive SWAT Team Raid
4 Cases of the U.S. Sheltering Vicious Criminals that Reveal Total Hypocrisy on Snowden
Smashing State Surveillance: Group Breaks CCTV Cameras on the Street
2.7 Million Children Under the Age of 18 Have a Parent in Prison or Jail - We Need Criminal Justice Reform Now
California to Force-Feed Prisoners Who Are Waging Hunger Strike Against Cruel Treatment
“Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell
Want to see a public school system in its death throes? Look no further than Philadelphia. There, the school district is facing end times, with teachers, parents and students staring into the abyss created by a state intent on destroying public education.
Doctor: Pubic Hair Exists for a Reason -- Our Obsession With Hairless Genitals Must End!
Water, water everywhere; not a drop to drink or use
Environmentalists
say EPA is systematically disengaging from any research that could be
perceived as questioning the safety of oil and gas drilling. The latest
is EPA's decision to pull out of its Wyoming fracking study, which will
now funded by industry and carried out by the state.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130723/wyo-fracking-study-be-funded-industry-after-epa-pulls-out
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130723/wyo-fracking-study-be-funded-industry-after-epa-pulls-out
The Madness of Mandatory Minimums
In the exceptional documentary, The House I Live In, the absurdity of mandatory minimums and the countless failures of the war on drugs are framed within the context of their effects on otherwise ordinary people, from the incarcerated, to those working within the criminal justice system to individual family members affected by drugs and unfair sentencing laws. The tragic consequences of policies which disproportionately affect the poor and minorities and a ‘war’ which has been waged on the American public are made all-too real.
An open letter to the jane q. public i wrote those tickets to…
Plate Tectonics: The Ends (and Beginnings) of the Earth, Part 1
Butterflies
HT
The Sierra Club's online communities are undergoing some big changes.
The Activist Network community has been buzzing -- as new teams form to work on the issues members care most about. The hydrofracking team, for example, has become a hub for activists around the country who are working to get natural-gas drilling properly regulated.
A Boom With No Boundaries: How Drilling Threatens Theodore Roosevelt National Park
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23366256/canadian-tar-sands-crude-heads-bay-area-refineries
www.mercurynews.com
While politicians, environmentalists and Big Oil fight over the Keystone XL pipeline, Bay Area refineries quietly work to bring the cheaper, dirtier crude to its facilities.
It
has been three years since an oil pipeline owned by Enbridge Inc.
ruptured near Marshall, Mich. and spilled more than a million gallons of
Canadian tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River. InsideClimate News
recently visited Marshall to see the progress of the cleanup efforts,
and to talk with residents, scientists and officials.
What's
the condition of the Kalamazoo River, three years after a pipeline
ruptured and spilled a million gallons of Canadian crude into its
waters? In short: Once black with oil, the Kalamazoo River runs clear
now. But EPA orders dredging and says it will be years before the spill's long-term effects are known.
( Does that mean before the truth comes out ? )
The Dilbit Disaster 3 Years Later: Sunken Oil Is Looming Threat to Kalamazoo River
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130725/dilbit-disaster-3-years-later-sunken-oil-looming-threat-kalamazoo-river
The Dilbit Disaster 3 Years Later: Sunken Oil Is Looming Threat to Kalamazoo River
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130725/dilbit-disaster-3-years-later-sunken-oil-looming-threat-kalamazoo-river
Quebec's
Department of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks said
Monday about 5.7 million liters (1.5 million gallons) of oil were
released into the air, water and soil during the July 6 train derailment
in Lac-Mégantic. (For context, the dilbit disaster in Michigan was
about a million gallons.)
http://insideclimatenews.org/breaking-news/20130723/15-million-gallons-crude-oil-spilled-quebec-town
http://insideclimatenews.org/breaking-news/20130723/15-million-gallons-crude-oil-spilled-quebec-town
InsideClimate News shared a link.
http://transitionvoice.com/2013/07/the-economy-isnt-coming-back/
transitionvoice.com
Despite
happy talk about economic recovery from Washington and all over,
shortages of oil, water and land will prevent a return to economic
growth.
InsideClimate News
A
relatively unknown tar sands pipeline that's nearly as big as Keystone
XL, and that will be built by Enbridge, is likely to sail through the
regulatory process and beat TransCanada's controversial project to the
Gulf. The full story: Little-Known Pipeline Nearly as Big as Keystone Could Win Race to Gulf http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130804/map-little-known-pipeline-nearly-big-keystone-could-win-race-gulf
The map showing both lines:
The map showing both lines:
InsideClimate News shared a link.
The
Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of has
won another major journalism award. Have you read it yet? It's just one
click away and only 99 cents! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008EKH5F6
The
World Bank on Tuesday agreed to a new energy strategy that will
restrict financing of coal-fired power plants to "rare circumstances,"
as it seeks to address the impact of climate change, Reuters reports: http://insideclimatenews.org/breaking-news/20130717/world-bank-dramatically-limit-financing-coal-plants
Scientists
agree that climate change was one of the triggers for the Yarnell Hill
wildfire in Arizona that killed 19 firefighters. But the local media has
largely ignored global warming in its coverage.
After Wildfire Tragedy, Talk of Global Warming's Contribution Is a Delicate Matter ow.ly/n6fXs
After Wildfire Tragedy, Talk of Global Warming's Contribution Is a Delicate Matter ow.ly/n6fXs
InsideClimate News shared a link.
Linda
Lynch, resident of Mayflower, Ark., the site of ExxonMobil’s ruptured
pipeline: "I think the problem we've got is people think because we're
such a small town, we're just a bunch of hicks who don't have any
God-given sense. ... There's a lot of
people who moved here in the last 10 or 15 years who retired like I
have, and moved here to get into a smaller community, because I've got
family who had been here for years. We're not country hicks. We're smart
people. We're educated."
InsideClimate News shared a link.
"There
was a real good sense of community in Mayflower before all this
happened. And now it's like everybody picked a side. A lot of people,
unless somebody drops dead and a doctor said, 'The oil spill is what
caused it,' they're not going to believe it. They think a lot of us are
just troublemakers, and that's just not the case."
Part 2 in a two-part series:
Part 2 in a two-part series:
InsideClimate News shared a link.
"Having
a crack or flaw in a pipeline is a whammy," said Patrick Pizzo, a
professor emeritus in materials engineering at San Jose State
University. "But having a crack embedded in brittle material, such as
the heat-affected zones of the pipeline seams—that's a double whammy."
When
Exxon's Pegasus pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Ark. volunteer
firefighters and public works employees used dump trucks and backhoes to
dam a sudden river of crude oil flowing toward the town's treasured
Lake Conway, known for its bounty of catfish, crappie, bluegill and bass. Did oil seep through anyway?
Sediment Tests To Show If Mayflower Residents Saved Their Treasured Lake from Oil Spill http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130814/sediment-tests-show-if-mayflower-residents-saved-their-treasured-lake-oil-spill
Sediment Tests To Show If Mayflower Residents Saved Their Treasured Lake from Oil Spill http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130814/sediment-tests-show-if-mayflower-residents-saved-their-treasured-lake-oil-spill
The
nation's pipeline regulator, PHMSA, has finally released ExxonMobil's
spill response plan for the ruptured Pegasus pipeline (the result of an
InsideClimate News FOIA request). And nearly all of the crucial elements
that would help make sense of the Arkansas spill have been completely redacted.
Burst Pipeline's Spill Plan Is None of Your Business, Suggests Regulator http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130820/burst-pipelines-spill-plan-none-your-business-suggests-regulator
(Image: redacted map showing route of the Pegasus pipeline from Exxon's spill plan)
Burst Pipeline's Spill Plan Is None of Your Business, Suggests Regulator http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130820/burst-pipelines-spill-plan-none-your-business-suggests-regulator
(Image: redacted map showing route of the Pegasus pipeline from Exxon's spill plan)
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