source: huffpost.com TOKYO — The star of “The Cove,” an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group. Instead, Ric O’Barry, the former dolphin-trainer for...
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Source: Center for Food Safety The Center for Food Safety announced last week that a Northern California District judge rescinded the approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered sugar beets: In September 2009, the Court had found that the USDA had violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by approving the Monsanto-engineered biotech crop without first...
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Source: prwatch.org Paula Kolmar and Tom Seslar, two “reporters” hired by BP, have been blogging from the Gulf and posting descriptions of cleanup operations on the company’s “Gulf of Mexico Response” PR Web site. One update by Kolmar, dated May 28 and titled “Ballet at Sea,” describes the laying of oil-absorbent boom amid the...
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: June 20, 2010 It was the last line of defense, the final barrier between the rushing volcanic fury of oil and gas and one of the worst environmental disasters in United States history. Its very name — the blind shear ram — suggested its blunt purpose. When all...
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Source: Jill Richardson’s Blog Apparently not. Shauna Ahern of the famous Gluten-Free Girl blog is paid to write a blog for the National Pork Board. She just wrote a piece about a factory hog farm she visited and how wonderful it was. Here’s an excerpt: The entire place felt warm. Even though there were...
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(Reuters) -Billionaire investor George Soros said on Wednesday he would guarantee $50 million to help slow deforestation and contain climate change, bolstering Norwegian plans for a partnership of rich and poor states to save forests. Soros announced the move a day before about 50 nations meet in Oslo to seal a deal on protecting...
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source: huffingtonpost.com Officials say it’s too soon to pinpoint the exact cause of the tragic explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia that took the lives of 29 miners, but we certainly know enough to identify the root cause. It’s the same cause that led to the 2007 Crandall Canyon mine...
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source: Green Inc The German industrial giant Ferrostaal will use solar technology from the California startup eSolar in power plants to be built in Europe, the Middle East and South Africa. The partnership, announced on Thursday, comes a month after eSolar, which is backed by Google and other investors, signed an agreement with a...
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source: independent.co.uk An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night. The attack against scientists supportive of the idea of man-made climate change has grown in ferocity since the leak of thousands of documents on the subject from the University...
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