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Facebook Bans Ad Criticizing Mark Zuckerberg’s Pro-Keystone XL Stance
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on May 1st, 2013
EcoWatch: Here’s a question for you. What have one of the world’s richest companies and one of the world’s richest men have in common?
The answer: They have both censored adverting criticizing their actions on climate-related issues.
So Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg joins Exxon in those accused of cynical censorship of free speech.
As we have pointed out, Exxon has repeatedly tried to ban adverting by Oil Change International and others.
But yesterday it emerged that Facebook has rejected an advertisement...
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Comments Off on Facebook Bans Ad Criticizing Mark Zuckerberg’s Pro-Keystone XL StanceImmediate Moratorium Needed on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining to Protect Human Health
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 26th, 2013
EcoWatch: This week the National Commission on the Health Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Mining, a group of independent physicians and scientists, released recommendations for actions necessary to ensure the health and safety of the residents of Appalachia who are impacted by mountaintop removal (MTR) mining.
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) commissioned the scientists to review a report prepared by CHEJ that analyzed the existing body of peer-reviewed, scientific studies on the impacts...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Immediate Moratorium Needed on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining to Protect Human HealthFort Collins Again Postpones Decision on Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 24th, 2013
EcoWatch: Last night the Fort Collins City Council voted unanimously to postpone their decision until their May 21 meeting about whether to terminate the moratorium on fracking. The city council passed a ban in March, but that ban allowed one drilling operation to continue fracking in North Fort Collins. However, three weeks later, the council passed an "agreement" allowing the drilling company to open up two new square miles of land for drilling and fracking.
The council`s postponement comes after it received...
Tim DeChristopher’s Peaceful Uprising
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 21st, 2013
EcoWatch: At a time when the debate over climate change is finally gaining post-election traction and hot topics such as fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline have captured public attention, the documentary Bidder 70 is poised to showcase a movement that has steadily gathered force, particularly among millenials, who harbor grave concerns for the increasingly perilous future. The feature-length documentary chronicles how renowned activist Tim DeChristopher’s civil disobedience blazed new opportunities for...
New York’s New Abolitionists: The Fight to Stop Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 19th, 2013
EcoWatch: “I blocked the entrance to the Inergy gas storage facility because I believe that the institutions ... [that should] protect the people and the environment from harm can no longer be relied to do so ... When the government fails to act in the public interest, the public must act on its own.” --Michael Dineen
“I’d rather have bread and water now than no bread and toxic water later as a result of this flawed Inergy project.” --Melissa Chipman
“My small, peaceful act of trespass was intended to...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on New York’s New Abolitionists: The Fight to Stop FrackingGroups Sue Interior Secretary to Protect California Public Lands From Fracking
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 18th, 2013
EcoWatch: In the wake of a landmark legal victory against fracking on public lands last week, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club filed a new lawsuit today challenging the Obama Administration’s auction of an additional 17,000 acres in Monterey, San Benito and Fresno counties for drilling and fracking. The suit against newly appointed Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and the Bureau of Land Management says the government did not fully consider the dangers fracking poses to watersheds, endangered...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Groups Sue Interior Secretary to Protect California Public Lands From FrackingAnti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber’s Pursuit of a Healthy Environment
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 18th, 2013
EcoWatch: Sandra Steingraber PhD, the acclaimed author and ecologist, is determined to stop natural gas companies from ever conducting hydraulic fracturing in her upstate New York community. She was raised in a family whose members did not close their eyes to the horrors around them. Steingraber, who was adopted as an infant, said part of the game plan of those who carry out atrocities is to make them seem unstoppable and inevitable. In her role as a public health biologist, she is witnessing atrocities being...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber’s Pursuit of a Healthy EnvironmentOpponents Rally Against Keystone XL Pipeline at State Department Hearing
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 18th, 2013
EcoWatch: Landowners, community leaders, experts and activists gathered in Grand Island, NE with a clear message to State Department on the Keystone XL pipeline: this pipeline is too risky for American families because of its threats to water, land and climate. The recent Arkansas tar sands spill highlights the risks of piping corrosive tar sands across the country on a route that crosses through the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the country’s largest sources of freshwater. The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Opponents Rally Against Keystone XL Pipeline at State Department HearingThree Arrested at Court Appearance for Protesting Fracking Infrastructure Storage Site
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 18th, 2013
EcoWatch: More than 150 people packed the Town of Reading Court in New York on April 17 to witness what they believe is a shocking miscarriage of justice.
Three members of a group dubbed the “Seneca Lake 12”--massage therapist Melissa Chapman of Schuyler County, farm owner Michael Dineen of Seneca County and Sandra Steingraber, PhD, author, biologist and distinguished scholar at Ithaca College--were sentenced to jail terms for their resistance to the heavy industrialization of the peaceful rural region...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Three Arrested at Court Appearance for Protesting Fracking Infrastructure Storage SiteAmerica’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2013
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 17th, 2013
EcoWatch: For thirty years, our America’s Most Endangered Rivers report has highlighted urgent threats to rivers and has spurred the public to take action. Through the report, we have helped sound the alarm on hundreds of rivers, saving them from threats like pollution and new dams.
The river at the top of the 2013 list, announced today, is the Colorado River--a river that is so dammed, diverted and drained that it dries to a trickle before reaching the sea.
Flowing for more than 1,400 miles across seven...