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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with water

The Great Water Heist: VIDEO   video
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Water, Water Rights, freedoms, ethics, politics, news, government, environment, rights, oceans, constitution, ethics, crime, usa, corruption )

Kat
- 200 days ago - youtube.com
Senate Bill 787 will change federal jurisdiction over "navigable" water, to give the federal government control over all water everwhere, in municiple reservoirs, and on private lands, and in priva...
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Sign Petition, Watch Ashley Judd Video: End Mountaintop Removal
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: obama, government, epa, Ashley Judd, Sierra Club, Appalachia, mountains, strip mining, pollution, streams, forests, wildlife, floods, poison, water )

Tom
- 264 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
A new ruling will permit mining companies to conduct devastating mountaintop removal coal mining operations without acting to minimize stream destruction or conducting adequate environmental reviews. Tell the EPA to end coal mine destruction.
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Obama & Gore: Time To Deal With Climate Change
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, conservation, environment, energy, globalwarming, globalwarming, GoodNews, humans, nature, politics, pollution, suffering, wildlife, world, water, oceans, endangered, americans, congress, obama, u.s., government, de )

SirRobert
- 352 days ago - cnn.com
With former Vice President Al Gore at his side, President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday: "It's time the issue of Climate Change is dealt with in a serious manner". "The time for denial and delay are over." With this platform there could be hope!
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EarthJustice : Environmental Groups to Challenge Fed's Refusal to Limit Perchlorate in Drinking Water & Sue the EPA
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: water, contamination, perchlorate, highly soluble, toxin, rocket fuel, health, risks, EPA, refusal, federal standard, safety, action, lawsuit, sue, California Senator, Rep, legislation, White House )

Alba
- 417 days ago - earthjustice.org
Rocket fuel toxin has tainted drinking water in 26 states, pregnant women & newborns at greatest risk. Defense Dep & Pentagon contractors lobbied 6 yrs to avoid fed drinking-water standard for perchlorate. >10 million have rocket fuel in drinking H2O...
7 comments
Video : Two California Farm Labor Contractors Shut Down After Death of 17-Year-Old From Heat Stroke
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: California, Fresno, CA, OSHA, farm workers, safely, farm labor, contractors, laws, water, shade, inspectors, heat stroke, emergency, over an hour, get to hospital, investigators, protest, vineyards, West Coast Grape Farming )

Alba
- 527 days ago - abclocal.go.com
Strangely upbeat video to convince CA is on the case protecting farm workers: see efforts made to inform on ways to keep them safe? UFW site tells different story: Maria's untimely & avoidable death. Why did CA wait for another death to apply the law?
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Water Restoration Act Is Anything But.......
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: water )


- 594 days ago - opednews.com
The Water Restoration Act of 2007...gives the federal government complete control over every waterway, river, stream, lake, aquifer, creek, slew, swamp, underground spring and even the rain that runs off your roof.
4 comments
AP: Water Makes US Troops in Iraq Sick
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: water, safety, troops, americans, bushadministration, ethics, politics, usa, war, troops, healthcare, congress, abuse, crime, terrorism, environment, endangered, pollution, suffering, protection, climate-change, globalwarming, ecosystems, destruction )

Mari
- 628 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.
4 comments
Coca-Cola Asked to Shut Plant in India
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Privatization, free trade, water, corporations )


- 675 days ago - indiaresource.org
The report VALIDATES the concerns of the communities in India - that the Coca-Cola company is guilty of creating water shortages and polluting the water and land around its bottling plants.
4 comments
Q&A: "Where Has All the Water Gone?"
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: globalization, water )


- 708 days ago - ipsnews.net
Imagine a planet where nuclear-powered desalination plants ring the world's oceans; corporate nanotechnology cleans up sewage water so private utilities can sell it back to consumers in plastic bottles at huge profit; and the poor who lack access to clean
3 comments
Bush Vetoes $23-Billion Water Bill - Los Angeles Times
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: water, fires, wildlife, Sustainabililty, bush )

Jonathan
- 754 days ago - latimes.com
President Bush delivered his threatened veto of a $23-billion water bill Friday, but Congress is virtually certain to reverse it in the first override of a Bush veto. SEE COMMENTS
3 comments
Court Denies Indian Appeal on Regulation of Water Discharges
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: ethics, government, water, Native Americans )

Chakwaina
- 831 days ago - boston.com
"...the explicit language of the Settlement Acts establishes state authority that far exceeds what is normal for Indian tribes to which no such legislation applies," the 25-page decision said.
1 comment
Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: bush, privatization, water )

PamelaLyn
- 946 days ago - alternet.org
All across the United States, municipal water systems are being bought up by multinational corporations, turning one of our last remaining public commons and our most vital resource into a commodity
5 comments
   

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