AltWeeklies Wire
Nearly 5,000 Chickens Rescued from Factory Farmnew
But activists, including many from the East Bay, weren't able to save 45,000 hens at an abandoned cage farm.
East Bay Express |
Alastair Bland |
03-15-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Factory Farms
Living Plastic-Freenew
Oakland's Beth Terry is almost doing it.
East Bay Express |
Nate Seltenrich |
03-09-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Living Plastic-Free
Valmont Butte's Got a Dam Problemnew
Suspect actions on the part of the EPA and State of Colorado in their testing and analysis of potential pathways to human exposure from Allied Chemical's Valmont Butte Mill site.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller |
03-02-2012 |
Environment
Placenta Shampoos, BPA, and Monsanto's Genetic Empirenew
We are experimental people. By that, I don't mean we like to tinker. Though tinker we certainly do.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-29-2012 |
Environment
Funeral home offers green alternatives to modern burialsnew
A woman stared into the empty pine coffin, eyeing the rough-hewn shroud inside with apprehension. “Well, it’s got burlap, and that makes me itch,” she said. She immediately realized what an odd thing it was to say about a wrapping for a lifeless body, but she repeated it anyway. "It does. It makes me itch."
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
02-27-2012 |
Environment
Tags: green burial
Laying Wastenew
With 'loads' of mud and chemicals soon to come, Ultra Resources looks to landfills.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
02-27-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Ultra Resources
Retired Industry Expert Joins Gas Refinery Fight in the Los Angeles South Baynew
After spending more than three decades working in the oil industry, Connie Rutter is the perfect citizen advocate to advance the community’s effort to shut the dangerous Rancho LPG tank facility.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
02-23-2012 |
Environment
Ronald Reagan and the Largest EPA Scandal in Historynew
President Ronald Reagan's controversial environmental policies may explain why Valmont Butte is still contaminated.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
02-17-2012 |
Environment
Idaho's Gasland Rules Debatednew
As the state clears the path for industry to frack for natural gas, new rules neglect to specify restrictions on carcinogenic material used in fracking and now, lawmakers are proposing to strip local authority of permitting controls.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
02-09-2012 |
Environment
The Dirty Dance: Idaho in the Middle of a New Coal Rushnew
Plans to bring coal trains across the Northwest raise big questions.
Boise Weekly |
Zach Hagadone |
02-01-2012 |
Environment
Nuclear Waste Dump Push Will Put Texas Back in Federal Sightsnew
Nuclear energy may be on the ropes post Fukushima's explosive meltdowns, but 70 years of U.S. bomb and power plant waste doesn't dissipate so easily.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-01-2012 |
Environment
The Ghosts of Valmont Buttenew
Ever since the city of Boulder purchased its Valmont Butte property, city taxpayers have been picking up the tab to pay for the environmental sins committed by more than a century’s worth of long-departed users at the site. And that tab may be getting bigger as more ghosts from the property’s past continue to reveal themselves.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller |
01-26-2012 |
Environment
What's Shakin'?new
Many fracking companies send leftovers deep into the earth. But it might be causing a side-effect that's gotten fewer headlines: earthquakes.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
01-26-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Earthquakes, Fracking
The CO2 Trapnew
California scientists develop material that captures carbon dioxide.
East Bay Express |
Susanne Rust |
01-23-2012 |
Environment
Indiana's Environmental Gains, Lossesnew
The Mitch Daniels administration can count a number of conservation gains to its credit. Several judges, however, still must way in on the environmental legacy of I-69.
NUVO |
Rebecca Townsend |
01-21-2012 |
Environment
