by Nelson Bailey | Feb 13, 2017 | Pipelines, Politics of energy
By Tom Jackman February 4 The protests of 2016, against pipelines and police shootings and a presidential candidate, have sparked lawmakers in eight states to consider bills boosting penalties for unlawful demonstrations. They include one that would protect drivers...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
By now, you’ve likely heard that there is a fracked gas pipeline under construction through the Southeast U.S. In the wake of effective opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their allies at the Missouri River crossing in...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 16, 2016 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy, Pollution - Other Sources
PORTLAND, Ore. — Communities throughout the Northwest are rejecting fossil-fuel infrastructures, and on Wednesday, Portland went a step further by approving a new zoning rule banning large, fossil-fuel terminals from coming to the city. Dan Serres, conservation...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 13, 2016 | Endangered Species, Health & Safety, Politics of energy
RANGER, Texas — The leaders of this former oil boom town never gave 2-year-old Adam Walton a chance to avoid the poison. It came in city water, delivered to his family’s tap through pipes nearly a century old. For almost a year, the little boy bathed in lead-tainted...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 11, 2016 | Conservation, Environmental Justice
The Japan Times SEATTLE – Washington on Thursday became the first U.S. state to sue the agrochemical giant Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades....
