Environment
Maine water activists celebrated an Election Day victory against Nestlé's attempts to gain control of water resources in the southern part of the state.
November 9, 2009 : Patrick Bond With a new international climate summit coming in December, the Obama White House is supporting legislation that will lock in catastrophe.
October 29, 2009 When residents in Denton, Texas, found out that natural gas drilling was going to begin in their neighborhood, they got organized.
October 16, 2009 : Joshua Frank The Hanford B nuclear reactor is historic in several ways. For starters, it’s the most polluted nuclear site on the planet.
September 21, 2009 : Chris Williams New climate legislation relies on free-market solutions to preserve the environment, but the only thing it will preserve are corporate profits.
July 2, 2009 : Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank The Democrats under Obama have unleashed a slew of anti-environmental policies that would have enraged conservationists during the Bush years.
June 5, 2009 There appears to be a certain culture of thinking in relation to water rights and allocation.
June 4, 2009 : Ted Nace An anti-coal movement activist explains what activists can do to start shutting down some of the 600 coal plants in the U.S.
May 8, 2009 : Nicole Colson Millions of people saw Barack Obama as the obvious choice on environmental issues, but there are already signs his administration won't take the kind of action that's needed.
April 28, 2009 The Holyoke Board of Health approved a waste transfer station that is harmful to the predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood it will be located in.
April 15, 2009 : Ronald Teska Both are occupied by U.S. energy corporations, and while it's oil in one case and coal in the other, the consequences are strikingly similar.
April 15, 2009 Citizens of a second town in Maine have voted to keep Nestle from exploiting its groundwater resources for profit.
March 18, 2009 The corporations and the rich have long thought of Maine as their playground, and the people who live and work there as quaint relics of the past.
March 10, 2009 : Jamilla El-Shafei Communities in Maine have been engaging in a struggle to protect their groundwater resources from the multinational giant Nestlé.
March 4, 2009 : Joshua Frank Barack Obama seems to be embracing an energy policy that has left Appalachia with fewer mountaintops every year.
February 18, 2009 : Andy Libson The owner of Peanut Corp. of America knowingly sold contaminated peanuts, leading to a deadly salmonella outbreak. But he probably won't spend a day in jail.
February 17, 2009 A devastating spill at a Tennessee coal-ash containment pond has exposed problems with lax environmental regulation and the fraud of "clean coal."
January 16, 2009 Some 50 people marched in Champaign, Ill., to call for the cleanup of toxic soil in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
December 11, 2008 The idea that higher oil prices create incentives to conserve that are necessary for a clean-energy revolution is wrong.
September 4, 2008 The U.S. government is continuing its campaign against the environmental movement with an attack on nonviolent protesters in Eugene, Ore.
July 30, 2008 A new book gathers snapshots of resistance taking place where the conventional wisdom says it's not supposed to--in the "red states."
July 10, 2008 : Nicole Colson Defenders of biofuels say they have the solution to the planet's environmental crisis. But scratch beneath the surface, and biofuels don't look so good.
July 10, 2008 Corporate America is celebrating the Supreme Court decision in the Exxon Valdez case that shields the world's most profitable company against its victims.
July 3, 2008 : Jeffrey St. Clair A new book documenting the war on the environment pulls no punches in its critiques of corporations and "institutionalized environmentalist" groups alike.
May 29, 2008 A new study has found that biological diversity has declined by 30 percent in just the last 35 years.
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