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If it`s Important to Oregonians...

Bureaucrats at the State Board of Forestry, academics at the OSU School of Forestry and Oregon media and politicians were AWOL.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Today, PBS Newshour on OPB aired an interesting investigative report on the spraying of dangerous herbicides on Oregon clear cuts in private land owned and exploited by the $13B industry’s lumber barons.

Specifically called out were Weyerhauser, Roseburg Resources and Seneca Jones.

EU Bites the Hand that Feeds It: Gazprom Will Bite Back

The EU has tried numerous tactics to loosen the Gazprom grip...

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - Gazprom has Europe's natural gas market in a stranglehold and Europe is attempting to fight back, first with a raid last year on the Russian giant's offices and then with a probe launched earlier this week against its allegedly illicit efforts to control the EU's natural gas supplies.

The bottom line is that the same natural gas revolution in the US, which was enabled by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), is now threatening the EU.

`Zero Extinction` Seven Wonders Campaign Announced

Public Asked to Vote for the 7 Endangered Wonders of the World

(WASHINGTON DC) - A new initiative was announced earlier today by the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) at the World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea. AZE's 7 Wonders campaign asks voters to help select seven sites from around the globe to highlight the plight of species on the brink.

GMO? No Joking Matter!

From Agent Orange Zone, A site for Agent Orange victims and their families.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Americans are not the only people dialing in to the dangers presented by Dow Chemical and its decades-long assault on the American and world populace.

It isn't just Agent Orange; the chemical defoliant sprayed by the millions of gallon over the jungles of Vietnam; this is the 'company' that was criminally convicted as far back as the early 1970's

An Integrated Strategy to Fight for Human Survival

Have you read any good news lately?

(BLACKBURN, Victoria, Aust) - In a recent article - ‘The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class’ - the authors identify the global power elite and explain the ways in which this elite acts to maximise their own private gains at the expense of the 99%.

Moreover, they demonstrate how the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire operates in service of this transnational corporate elite.

Study Links Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka`s Farm Belt to Agrochemicals

Researchers involved in each study acknowledged that the issues raised by the other were significant.

(COLOMBO IPS) - A new report links the high prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka’s main agricultural production regions with the presence of heavy metals in the water, caused by fertiliser and pesticide use.

Over the past two decades, dozens of studies have been conducted on the large number of kidney patients in Sri Lanka’s agro-rich north-central region.

Bandana: Part III in a 3 Part Series

BANDANA: Build Absolutely No Desalination Anywhere Near Anything….or Anyone

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - Every focused poll taken by disinterested 3^rd parties in the last 12 years of my watch reflects a 90+% willingness by OC residents to pay more to procure safe, healthy potable and irrigation water.

These polls by professionals in the field reflect eagerness, an obviously increasing awareness that our general water availability is in jeopardy.

Chevron`s Richmond Refinery Fire: Another Case of Environmental and Community Destruction

Chevron was the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2009.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Chevron's Richmond Refinery -- the company's second largest refinery -- recently spewed toxic smoke over Richmond and San Pablo, California.

It sent more than 14,000 people in the East Bay to medical facilities with smoke-related complaints.

Ocean Power Technologies Awarded FERC License For Oregon Wave Power Station

License is the first to be issued ever in the U.S.

(PENNINGTON, NJ) - The Reedsport OPT Wave Park has received approval from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build its planned 1.5 megawatt, grid-connected wave power station off Reedsport, Oregon.

This is the first FERC license for a wave power station issued in the U.S. It provides an important regulatory approval to develop ten OPT devices generating enough electricity for approximately 1,000 homes.

Making Scotland the Green Energy Capital of Europe - Interview with Alex Salmond

Nuclear power will also leave a legacy of waste and vast decommissioning costs for the next generation of Scots

(LONDON) - Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond discusses a broad range of topics from Scotland’s ambitious renewable energy targets and North Sea oil & gas to Scottish independence and Donald Trump.

Alex Salmond is a champion of green energy and has a vision to transform Scotland into a renewable energy powerhouse whilst aggressively reducing the country’s carbon emissions.