Environment

Will damaged vessel put the freeze on Shell’s Arctic drilling?

July 14, 2015 By Blake Skylar

This incident offers further vindication for what environmentalists have been saying all along: that accidents are unavoidable in this ecologically sensitive region.

Apache Stronghold caravan seeks to save sacred site from mining giant

July 10, 2015 By Albert Bender

They say that Oak Flat will be "damaged" by the mine. "Damaged" is an understatement. A two mile wide, 1,000 foot deep crater will result from the mining.

Capitalism the culprit in the Sixth Extinction

July 8, 2015 By Patrick J. Foote

If life on earth is to survive then we must reorient the means by which we survive currently toward keeping a balance with nature.

Vigil held for explosion victims as criticism of oil trains broadens

July 7, 2015 By Blake Skylar

Held by 350.org and the Sierra Club, the event marked the two-year anniversary of the disaster, the Lac-Megantic, Quebec, oil train explosion that killed 47 people.

Rail workers, environmentalists to launch week of protests vs. oil trains

July 2, 2015 By PAI

They plan to note that oil-laden trains are so dangerous that transporting oil across the continent by train should be severely curtailed, if not ended.