What’s happening at National Wildlife Federation this week? Government shutdown spells trouble for wildlife, but it also spells trouble for you! Coal is continuing to play dirty. Read about the … Read more
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The BP Trial-What’s at Stake for the Gulf in Phase 2?
If it seems like BP has aggressively shirked responsibility for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster since the day the rig exploded, it’s because the company has been doing just … Read more
UPDATED:Flood of `Biblical Proportions’ Leaves Behind Devastation, Pollution
There’s the devastation that we know has been unleashed by Colorado’s rains of “of biblical proportions”—eight people presumed dead; about 1,500 homes destroyed and more than 17,000 damaged; and numerous roads … Read more
Five Years is More than Enough Time to Reject a Polluting Pipeline
It’s been five years since the Keystone XL was proposed and the oil industry thinks that is somehow a justification to approve it. But bad ideas generally get worse with … Read more
Five Great Lakes Species Facing a New Threat from Big Oil
The Great Lakes are the world’s largest surface freshwater ecosystem and their waters and shoreline areas provide habitat for a breathtaking array of wildlife. But with a recent increase in … Read more
Fracking Bill could Take the ‘Public’ Out of Federal Lands
It’s about local control, say members of Congress who want the states, not the federal government, to regulate fracking on federal lands — those public lands that belong to all Americans. The House … Read more
New Report: Keystone XL Would Drain Cash from American Families
It turns out Canadian tar sands companies and American conservationists agree on something: The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would significantly raise America’s gas prices. A new report from Consumer … Read more
Scratch and Sniff Tar Sands
When I walked into the Oil Sands Discovery Centre a day after participating in the Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, the first thing I noticed was … Read more
You Can Help Heal the Tar Sands By Stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline
Last week, I was fortunate enough to join more than 500 people from the First Nations, Canada and the United States to walk 14 kilometers through Canada’s tar sands mining … Read more
