In his 222-page encyclical, Pope Francis warned about (1) the polar plight, (2) sea level rise, (3) ocean-bound water pollution, (4) ocean acidification, (5) overfishing and (6) loss of marine biodiversity.

Emails Needed by Thursday, July 17 to Save the South Central Farm (Again) (tags)

The L.A. Planning Commission is again planning to put a sweatshop and warehouses on the South Central Farm site, and this time they're doing an end run around public comment.

Keystone XL: State Department tells the environment to drop dead (tags)

The U.S. State Department appears to be cooking the books in its studies of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Could this be a sign that the Obama administration is preparing to approve a project that potentially could be the tipping point for uncontrollable global warming?

10 Things Pres. Obama Can Do Right Now (tags)

The state has a social nature and cannot only be a power and security state. The time is right for alternative economics, reducing working hours, expanding the public sector, shrinking financial sector and community centers.

Obama's New Climate Plan (tags)

fraud

Lynne Stewart Denied Compassionate Release (tags)

police state

How Clean is the Air You’re Breathing? (tags)

Have you ever thought about the air quality in your home? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air quality can often be even worse than the air outside. In honor of National Care About Your Indoor Air Month this February, here are a few surprising facts to be aware of when it comes to your in-home air quality.

Clean Air, Healthy Communities Citizens Hearing (tags)

Health, science and academic experts and private citizens defend clean air

Chevron Fined Billions (tags)

After decades of pollution of the Amazon basin, the oil corporation Chevron was fined $8.6 billion, the greatest environmental penalty of all time. How many catastrophes will be necessary until the population of industrial states becomes interested in environmental protection?

BTL:Strict Environmental Regulations Have Cut Deaths Resulting from Coal Pollution (tags)

BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine

Oil Pollution and Organized Irresponsibility (tags)

The question of the responsibility of corporations is raised in principle in the historic environmental disaster at the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation leaves open many loopholes.

AIRNow--the eternal optimists (tags)

Air pollution reporting agency, AIRNow, consistently presents an excessively rosy air pollution levels forecast--one seldom, if ever, born out by actual contaminant levels on the ground.

Join CA Safe Schools @ 2009 Western U.S. Pollution Prevention Conference (tags)

California Safe Schools (CSS) www.calisafe.org is nationally & internationally recognized for spearheading the most stringent pesticide policy in nation at Los Angeles Unified School District . Today it has become an international model.

The Democrats Abandon the Environment (tags)

“As a banker, I also welcome the fact that the 'cap-and-trade' system is becoming the dominant methodology for [carbon dioxide] control.” -Simon Linnett, Executive Vice Chairman of Rothschild Bank. Can the looming environmental catastrophe be solved by environmentalists working side by side with Wall Street Bankers? Such a question doesn’t deserve a serious answer. The Democrats, however, are attempting to address the issue of global warming by developing a “partnership” between those who love the earth, and those who love only profits.

Obama's Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill - A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and Fr (tags)

plunder and pollution if passed

"Continuous Operations" and "Elimination of Unit Breaks" Exposes ILWU (tags)

The "Continuous Operations" and "Elimination of Unit Breaks" agreement signed by Ugles & Co. of ILWU Local 19 Seattle exposes union officers as hypocrites in the fight for clean air in our port communities.

Landfill Pollution Goes Unchecked In Home Of 9-1-1 (tags)

The city landfill in Haleyville, Alabama USA, birthplace of 9-1-1, goes unchecked as it pollutes water, air and soil. Government officials will do nothing, ignoring all outside media investigations.

Livermore Pro-Nukers Move to Kill More in San Francisco Area (tags)

Livermore Lab has continuously contaminated the region for decades. San Francisco residents are reporting the presence of cancer causing uranium in hair samples.

Follow Chavez's Lead; Nationalize US Oil (tags)

Chavez took the needed step of nationalizing Venezuela's petroleum reserves to prevent multinational corporations (ie., Exxon-Mobil)from theft of resources. Here in US, we would be wise to follow Chavez's example..

Plato's Vomitorium (tags)

don't read this. exhume deleuze. god is in the details, nietzche is dead. -- grandma

URGENT! QUALITY OF COMMUNITY IN DANGER, MORE (tags)

Reach out and help your community to survive and stop the pollution of the environment and air particles that may cause harm to humans living in the surrounding areas: URGENT WHEN: OCT 12, THURSDAY TODAY AT 7:00 P.M. TONIGHT MEETINGS OUR LADY OF TALPA AUDITORIUM 4TH STREET, BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND EUCLID STREET. ACROSS THE STREET FROM EVERGREEN PLAYGROUND. Meeting with leaders of the community, Jose Huizar Councilmen, and owners of the property on Euclid and 4th, planning to built a high density antennas in our back yards. Come and meet the person(s) that want to do this structure. The resident have several concerns AND MORE, do you have questions and concerns, come and ask and make elected or commission people accountable to insure the safety of our community.

Lt. Governor Candidate: No Tunnel, No Quarry (tags)

Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, is opposing two projects being planned for west Riverside County; a ten mile tunnel that will move traffic beneath the Cleveland National Forest and the Santa Ana Mountains, and a quarry that is being planned near the boarder of Riverside and San Diego County. Alexander says these two projects are the results of irresponsible planning that will cause long term damage to our environment and will have a negative impact on the lives of millions of Californians.

CARS HAVE NO FUTURE (tags)

two wheels = the only solution

Green syndicalist response to CA water board decision (tags)

The usually deaf (hard of hearing) official characters of the CA water board are directly responsible for the increased militarization of labor and ecoactivists in the pesticide soaked central valley..

US-Arroyo Regime’s Sell-Out of People’s Resources to Foreign Mining Corporations Most Desp (tags)

Pesante-USA supports the stand of a growing number of Filipinos and the Catholic Church which has been crusading against opening the country to foreign mining companies. They are correct in saying that mining would only lead to the further destruction of the environment, the exploitation of indigenous people and communities, and eventually the massive loss of other sources of livelihood in the surrounding areas.

Where are all the Frogs? (tags)

It could be that we should be more worried about vanishing amphibians than about George W’s “nookular” wet dreams about Iran.

California Artist Fights For Noise Control (tags)

California artist and anti-noise advocate offers noise-free event.

Environmental and Public Interest Groups "Exxpose" Exxon (tags)

Landmark Campaign to Expose ExxonMobil’s Dangerous Environmental Policies

Hearing Set on Proposed Air Pollution Permit (tags)

AQMD lists Falcon Foam as the 58th largest source of VOC emissions in the South Coast Air Basin for 1997, the most recent ranking of facilities made publicly available. AQMD is responsible for more than 25,000 air pollution permits.

The weather. (tags)

We affect the weather.

Chemtrail crisis: an overview and update (tags)

From the April 2001 Idaho Observer:

ENERGY SUCKS (tags)

While Californians suck up energy, power plants on Mexican border spew!

Greenhouse gas 'plan B' gaining support (tags)

While the Contraction & Convergence model seems anathema to countries like the US, which would have to buy large numbers of pollution credits in the early years. But it does meet most of the criticisms made by the Bush administration of the Kyoto protocol.

Lawmakers block labeling food with Country of Origin (tags)

(In a massive sell-0ut) "Bargainers tying down the last details of a mammoth $390 billion spending bill agreed to block labels identifying which country food products come from for the next two years, lawmakers and aides said Saturday. "

CLEAR LIES PART 2: King Coal: The Sell Out of America's Skies (tags)

The Clear Skies Initiative is a litany of lies concocted to justify the infamous Bush-Cheney Energy Plan. The cornerstone of this disastrous anti-human health, anti-environmental scheme: COAL.

CLEAR LIES PART: King Coal -- the Sellout of America's Skies (tags)

Assuming that Americans will be focused, open-mouthed and drooling over the mainstream media coverage of the Bush UK tour, the GOP goons in Congress are ramming through the Bush-Cheney energy bill -- the BIGGEST CORPORATE GIVEAWAY IN US HISTORY

CLEAR LIES: The Dirty, Deadly Truth about Bush's Clear Skies Initiative (tags)

The Clear Skies Initiative is a litany of lies concocted to justify the infamous Bush-Cheney Energy Plan. In this Five-Part Series, CLEAR LIES: The Deadly, Dirty Truth about Bush's Clear Skies Initiative and Catastrophic Energy Plan," the lies, manipulations and false promises laid out in Bush's Clear Skies speech are ripped away to reveal to ugly truth beneath.

California Attorney General rips EPA on Clean Air Act (tags)

Lockyer called the EPA's logic absurd and said its decision will contribute to "additional pollution of the planet, pollution of California and harmful health effects to people and the other species with which we cohabitate."

Filtering The Smog (tags)

Clinton's EPA filed suits and brought against dozens of industrial plants, including ExxonMobil and Southern Company. But Bush's EPA re-writes the rules and permits companies to keep secret information about their deadly emissions.

Protecting California's Clean Water (tags)

According to a 2000 report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency two thirds of California lakes tested so polluted they cannot support aquatic life.

From Bad to Worse: The EPA after Whitman (tags)

Both President Bush and Administrator Whitman disavowed a government report (authored by their own scientists) acknowledging humans' role in causing global warming -- we fear for the future.

Libertarians says Smog Danger is a lot of Hot Air (tags)

Free Market analysts claim that the the American Lung Association 2003 "State of the Air" report is designed to generate alarming headlines and encourage charitable donations, but not to provide the media and the public with accurate information on air pollution.

stop the dirty air war at home, 300 Sept 11s is enough (tags)

Public pressure needed to stop energy companies from killing thousands more people.

BP faces record fine for spoiling Los Angeles air (tags)

BP is facing a record $320m (£200m) pollution fine and allegations that the oil company submitted false documentation to air quality control regulators in the United States.

Green or Mean Returns - Investing In The Environment (tags)

The environment can provide green investments or mean investments, depending on which end of the spectrum your on. The fishing industry off the coast of Spain is going to suffer, ship builders are going to benefit.

Trouble Erupts In California Pollution Trading Market (tags)

News Analysis: Trouble Erupts In California Pollution Credit Market Just As President Proposes “Clear Skies” Market For Power Plants

Ski Resort Cleanup (tags)

Southern California Skiers/Boarders Will Breathe Easier Under Diesel Exhaust Cleanup Plan

California Environmental Programs (tags)

California Environmental Programs Face Major Cuts In Midst Of Budget Debacle

Monsanto and Environmental Justice (tags)

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