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Obama Will Use Nixon-Era Law to Fight Climate Change
Environment  (tags: obama, government, politics, consumers, development criteria, CREDIT RATINGS, credit ratings, business, cover-up, dishonesty, usa, politics, news, government, ethics, abuse, americans, finance, money, society, climate-change, environment, ecosystems, green )

Cal
- 90 days ago - bloomberg.com
President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipelines to highways.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell President Obama: Amb. Susan Rice's Tar Sands Investments Are a Big Problem!
Environment  (tags: news, media, obama, politics, ENVIRONMENT, SUSAN RICE, Susan Rice, environment, government, corruption, abuse, environment, humans, government, green )

Cal
- 196 days ago - change.org
While Susan Rice is a highly accomplished professional with considerable foreign policy experience, her masssive financial holdings in tar sands extraction in Canada...expose her blatant disregard for protection of the environment or the need to shift ou
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Don't Let Oil Company Exploit Ecologically Rich Amazonian Land
Environment  (tags: business, abuse, environment, ecosystems, environment, destruction, world, protection, habitat )

Cal
- 241 days ago - forcechange.com
Help Kichwa villagers on Sani Isla stop the PetroAmazonas company from engaging in a seismic survey of their land
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE: A Real Hero in the Chesapeake Bay
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, corporate, abuse, environment, ethics, environment, destruction, protection, nature, activists, society, activism, environmental activism, safety, protection, habitat, environment, destruction, conservation, ecosystems, nature, healthcondition )

Cal
- 249 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Kathy Phillips is a real heroine. She's standing up to Perdue, a company responsible for a large percentage of the pollution pouring into the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waterways
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Fraud Hits California's Recycling Programs
Environment  (tags: Fraud, recycling, California, 104% recycling rate, abuse, unintended consequences )

Paula
- 251 days ago - nationalreview.com
California's generous recycling redemption program has led to rampant fraud.
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Ironic Conservation: APP Touts Tiger Relocation After Allegedly Destroying Tiger's Home
Environment  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, deforestation, corporate greenwashing, wicked publicity stunt, Greenpeace, environment, wildlife, wildanimals, abuse, death, protection, humans, ecosystems, destruction, environment, forests, humans, trees, world )

Cal
- 685 days ago - news.mongabay.com
APP allegedly destroys a tiger's habitat in Indonesia, and then relocates it in the name of helping to preserve a threatened species as a wicked and ironic publicity stunt, according to Greenpeace.
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DINGBATS! US House Republicans Propose to Eliminate Migratory Bird Conservation Act
Environment  (tags: politics, republicans, environment, abuse, ecosystems, environment, wildlife, politics, humans, animals, nature )

Cal
- 693 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The US House of Representatives has proposed an environmental spending bill that strips funds from many environmental agencies, including eliminating altogether the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act.
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TAKE ACTION!! Stop West Coast Coal Ports--Keep the Pacific Northwest Beautiful!
Environment  (tags: environment, activists, pollution, coal companies, overdevelopment, corporate pollution, protection, alternative energy, energy, humans, nature, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, corporate, abuse, environment, usa, economy, government, society, politic )

Cal
- 830 days ago - act.ran.org
Ambre Energy and Peabody Energy are leading the push for west coast export terminals that would open the floodgates for a new coal market in Asia. The coal ports would threaten both the awe-inspiring Columbia River and beautiful Bellingham Bay, as well
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ALASKA's Fish and Game Officials Sink to New Low With Bear Snaring
Environment  (tags: abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalcruelty, animalrights, animals, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, conservation, crime, cruelty, death, endangered, environment, ethics, extinction, habitat, humans, killed, killing, law, protection, sadness )

Wolfweeps
- 981 days ago - wolfsongnews.org
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has sunk to a new procedural and, I believe, ethical low in its bear snaring proposals for the upcoming special Board of Game meeting Oct. 8-12 in Anchorage. By attempting to classify black bears as "furbearers"
62 comments
EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust - News9.Com - Oklahoma City, OK
Environment  (tags: environment, government, EPA oversight, stupidity in government, abuse )

Barbara
- 1049 days ago - news9.com
MORE INSANITY IN GOVERNMENT: OKLAHOMA CITY -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations.
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Big Companies Are Planning to Build Huge 'Megadairies' in Lincolnshire. UK.
Environment  (tags: abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, animalcruelty, animalrights, cruelty, ethics, environment, protection, suffering, destruction, environment, habitatdestruction, nature, protection, Sustainabililty )

Mathew
- 1095 days ago - 38degrees.org.uk
These huge, US-style factory farms keep cows inside all year to get as much milk - and as much profit - as they can. The cows aren't even fed on grass. Please sign the petition to stop this.
177 comments
Mines Charged With Contaminating Waterways
Environment  (tags: pollution, protection, humans, corporate, abuse, habitatdestruction, environment, ecosystems, destruction )

Cal
- 1224 days ago - news.com.au
TWO northwest Queensland mines each face up to $832,500 in fines after the state government charged them with contaminating local waterways.
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TAKE ACTION---CHEVRON IN THE AMAZON: CLEAN IT UP!
Environment  (tags: abuse, corporate, environment, habitat, habitatdestruction, forests, world, protection, environment )

Cal
- 1229 days ago - secure.avaaz.org
Oil giant Chevron is facing defeat in a lawsuit by the people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, seeking redress for its dumping billions of gallons of poisonous waste in the rainforest. But the oil multinational has launched a last-ditch, dirty lobbying effort
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The Shark Truth Must Surface
Environment  (tags: abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animals, animalcruelty, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, environment, killing, protection, law, slaughter, suffering, wildlife, wildanimals, conservation, environment, oceans, water, endangered, ecosystems )

Georgienn
- 1285 days ago - itsyourocean.blogspot.com
Even as millions of sharks are being poached and finned, there is a group entrenched in the multi-billion dollar finning industry who are advocating shark killing and mutilation.
34 comments
Take Action: Stop Shell Oil's Human Rights and Environmental Abuses
Environment  (tags: Shell, oil, pollution, gas, flaring, environment, destruction, humans, habitat, nature, ecosystems, crime, abuse, humanrights, business, money, health, risks )

Tom
- 1503 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
Shell Oil is charged with serious human rights abuses, including conspiring with Nigeria's military dictatorship to execute Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow activists who led a mass movement against Shell's environmental devastation of the Niger Delta.
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