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Oil Spill Should Be A Wake-up Call

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 17 July 2011 in Earth Violators

We’re now two weeks into the cleanup of the ExxonMobil oil spill in the Yellowstone River near Billings, and while we still don’t have all the answers — among them, exactly why the spill strarted, how much oil it actually involved and how much more effort the cleanup will take — a few things have be...

Locals Survey The Yellowstone Oil Spill

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 17 July 2011 in Earth Violators

While ExxonMobil and government officials worked Saturday to clear a ruptured pipeline underneath the Yellowstone River of any residual oil, a small group of boaters began their own weeks-long survey of the river in an effort to document areas affected by the spill. Called the Oily River Rendezvous...

BP Oil Still Washing Ashore One Year After Spill

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 15 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Crude oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf of Mexico coast a year after BP Plc (BP/) stopped the flow from its damaged Macondo well, which caused the worst U.S. offshore spill, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. About 491 miles (790 kilometers) of coastline in Louisian...

Nike, Adidas, Puma 'using suppliers pouring toxic chemicals into China's rivers'

Posted by grant on Thursday, 14 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Some of the world's most famous clothing brands, including Nike, Adidas Puma, and H&M are using suppliers that pour toxic chemicals into China's rivers, the environmental pressure group Greenpeace has claimed. By Peter Foster, Beijing In a year-long investigation, undercover activists collecte...

Amazon Dammed

Posted by henryfool on Thursday, 14 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Sixty Minutes story on the damming of the Amazon Amazon dammed - Images by Cristina Mittermeier Reporter: Allison LangdonProducers: Stephen Rice, Julia Timms, Jo Townsend link to Sixty Minutes video There are few places on Earth quite as isolated or as spectacular as the Amazon. Venture deep i...

EPA Update on Yellowstone River Oil Spill

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 11 July 2011 in Earth Violators

On July 6th EPA issued ExxonMobil an administrative order instructing them to provide information on the circumstances of the spill, conduct appropriate recovery and remediation actions, and perform ongoing environmental sampling. The order also requires ExxonMobil to provide a work pla...

Is ocean garbage killing whales?

Posted by grant on Sunday, 10 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Body of a dead humpback whale is seen in Omonville-la-Rogue, north-west France, a rare species to the Channel. A French fishermen brought the whale back in his nets, saying that it was already dead when it was caught in the nets. Entanglement in plastic bags and fishing gear have long been identifie...

Oil Spilled Into Montana's Yellowstone River

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 in Earth Violators

LAUREL, Mont. — Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the ...

Fukushima is the greatest environmental disaster in human history

Posted by amir on Saturday, 25 June 2011 in Earth Violators

By way of comparison, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occured in 1986 in the Ukraine, Russia- heretofore the worst nuclear disaster on record- burned for 10 days and cumulatively killed an estimated 1 million people worldwide. The Fukushima, Japan nuclear disaster...

The FBI’s War against Green Activists

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 16 June 2011 in Earth Violators

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” -Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Ever wonder where your tax dollars go? I mean besides wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bailouts for Wall Street and tax cuts for the richest of the rich. How about our government’s rapidly expanding...

Thousands of Gallons of Oil Spilled into Emigrant Creek in Wyoming

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 16 June 2011 in Earth Violators

Malfunctioning equipment at an oil well site leaked thousands of gallons of oil into a creek south of Rawlins, federal regulators said Monday, although they weren’t sure of the exact total. The spill into Emigrant Creek, where cleanup operations are under way, totaled between 1,000 and 10,0...

Why Mattel Toy Packaging is Destroying The Rain Forest

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 in Earth Violators

Greenpeace has launched a global campaign against Mattel the world's largest toy company. This is part of a decades long campaign to force multi-national corporations to purge operations links to rain forest destruction. Mattel is accused of packing Barbie and other toys with paper made with hardwoo...

BP Oil Spill to Blame for Dolphin Deaths

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 01 June 2011 in Earth Violators

MOBILE, AL (WEAR/CNN) - Marine researchers say the BP oil spill may have played an indirect role in the unusual number of dolphin deaths along the Gulf Coast. The researchers said the dispersants used to clean the oil may have disrupted their food chain. "I used to say I had the best job in the wo...

China Power Rations

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 18 May 2011 in Earth Violators

State-owned power generating companies are dealing with high global energy prices that have cut their profits. China has also banned the export of diesel, to try to meet domestic demand. Power cuts occur every summer, but this year rising coal costs and a drop in hydropower output mean they...

Thousands rally in Japan against nuclear power

Posted by Aaron on Saturday, 07 May 2011 in Earth Violators

by Harumi Ozawa Thousands of people rallied in Japan Saturday to demand a shift away from nuclear power after an earthquake and tsunami sparked the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl a quarter-century ago. Braving spring drizzle, thousands of demonstrators gathered at a park in Tokyo's Sh...

The Triumph of Climate Politics

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 in Earth Violators

Got hope and change? Supply-sider David Stockman was full of it in 1981 when the Reagan Revolution swept the country. Stockman, a rising star in GOP politics, became Reagan’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget and quickly began looking for ways to curtail the dreaded “welfare state.”...

To Burn or To Bury, Garbage and its Future

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 in Earth Violators

Wisconsin, USA -- Europe burns heaps of garbage, getting lots of electricity and some heat. The United States does not. Proponents say incineration shrinks the waste and produces heat and electricity while reducing the need for landfills and the diesel-drinking trucks tasked with taking trash to o...

Japan winds change to blow over Pacific

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 in Earth Violators

Winds are set to blow low-level radiation from Japan's quake-crippled nuclear power plant out over the Pacific Ocean in coming hours, easing health worries after drifting toward Tokyo early on Tuesday, experts said. After the more serious 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Sovie...

Millions of Dead Fish Litter Redondo Beach Harbor

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 in Earth Violators

Millions of dead fish washed up in King Harbor in Redondo Beach, Calif., on Monday, and authorities brought in skimmers and bulldozers to remove them. The dead sardines, anchovies and mackerel were so abundant, they formed a 12- to 18-inch layer on the harbor floor. The dead fish clean-up has cost $...

Chevron Must Think We're Stupid

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 18 November 2010 in Earth Violators

Rainforest Action Network and the Yes Men have put together a great campaign focusing on Chevron’s efforts to green wash their poor environmental record: “Angry and frustrated that oil companies like Chevron think they can ignore their environmental and human rights abuses while cleaning up their im...