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Tell Senator Wyden: Step up and be a Leader on Climate and Energy Policy

Wyden recently signaled a willingness to compromise with Senate Republicans.

(EUGENE, OR) - Friends and family, season’s greetings from the proposed NW coal export corridor.

Oregon's own Senator Wyden is uniquely positioned to chart a different course for Oregon and the rest of the country.

A Walk On The River And the Gulf`s New Tourist Mecca

International issue: hands across the toxins...

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - If Jesus could be beamed down to earth, it would not require any divine circumvention as to viscosity, hydraulic principles or gravity.

On the other hand, if He were to attempt to replicate the loaves-and-fishes routine, He just might have a problem. Because the Dead Sea was never like this.

Exporting Fracked Shale Gas/Health Risks: 107 Doctors Urge White House to Go Slow on LNG Export Terminals

First, Do No Harm: Get the Health Facts Now Is the Message From Petitioners to Obama

(WASHINGTON DC) - Experts say moving ahead rapidly with plans to approve several new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals would require “a rapid increase in fracking in the United States without credible science”.

Oil Prices Could Drop Substantially: An Interview with Michael Levi

The oil and gas industry is heading towards transformation.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - There's been plenty of talk about potentially radical US foreign policy changes as a result of the shale boom.

While one shouldn't expect any dramatic US foreign policy move away from the Middle East, factors are influencing a greater focus on Asia.

Pledge to Defeat the Planet-Killing Trade Deal

We've taken on the Canadian government before, and won...

(WASHINGTON DC) - Right now, the tar sands, a toxic oil reserve almost the size of Saudi Arabia's but over 3 times as dangerous for climate change, sits landlocked in Northern Canada.

People power has twice blocked new pipelines into this poison, but now we have a bigger challenge.

SPECIAL REPORT: Agent Orange: A Toxic Disaster

Authorities estimate that 4.8 million were exposed to Agent Orange dioxin in Vietnam, with more than 3 million victims, including children of the second and third generations.

(DaNang, Viet Nam ANN) - The boy is five, but he looks like he's only two years old. "Ta, ta, ta!", cries the boy as he rolls over onto his mother's lap, and points to a cup of water.

A Young Death, Gas Wells, and Unanswered Questions

We have an unequivocal obligation to protect children from chemicals and the harm they cause, to the degree possible.

(LEXINGTON, MA) - On Thanksgiving day a 19 year old boy died in upstate New York of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Diagnosed with ALL when he was 9, his disease returned with a vengeance when he was 17.*

He is the only child of a divorced mother who participated in Cure, a support group for families of children with cancer.

Recycling

Despite the hypocritical lip service, recycling is not a capitalist value.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - The health of the economy depends on citizens consuming—buying more and more of what they need less and less of. When there is high unemployment or a depressed economy, consumer confidence is polled and policy makers try to find ways to kick-start the economy which means, fundamentally, how to get more money into people’s hands and encourage them to spend it.

Clean Water Now! Coalition: `Adios y muchisimas gracias!`

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - The CWN!C which I co-founded and for whom I have proudly served as its only Executive Director is saying "Sayonara".

CalDesal 1st Annual Desalination Conference in Irvine CA

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.” Winston Churchill

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - I’ve intuitionally felt for quite some time the resonance of Churchill’s quote in regards to desalination in general:

We’ve drained our streams, our lakes and aquifers dry, that damned desalination is the last tool in the water supply pouch...