Amidst worldwide protest and controversy, Canada’s shameful annual massacre of 300,000 baby harp seals began today. Mass killings are underway in the Saint Lawrence Gulf and will soon expand to Newfoundland. Canada’s seal hunt (if you can call bludgeoning defenseless baby animals to death “hunting”)...
Authorities in Florida shot and critically wounded one of the US's most wanted environmental crime fugitives, Larkin Baggett. Baggett pointed a gun at police. He is owner of Chemical Consultants Inc. and has been charged in federal court in Utah with dumping chemicals down drains, into paved alleys ...
Examples of Modern Mines that Damaged Rivers & Fisheries
(Compiled by Mara Bacsujlaky for the Bristol Bay Alliance)
The mines that are featured here are all mining operations whose main components were developed within the last 30 years, using “state-of-the-art”, modern hardrock mining technol...
Each year, millions if not billions of people are affected by an ever increasing onslaught of rapid environmental pollution brought about by gas fumes, weapons testing, factories, and wasteful energy use.
One year ago, www.SixWise.com put together a list of the ten top most polluted places in the w...
A Bush Administration ruling barring states and local governments from requiring more air-pollution monitoring is illegal according to a ruling by the US Court of Appeals District of Columbia. "We can't have strong enforcement of our clean air laws unless we know what polluters are putting into the ...
Source Associated Press-June 12 2008, Four Homebuilders Fined for Runoff
MDC Holdings Inc, Denver, CO; Centex Corp, Dallas, Texas, KB Home of Los Angeles, California and Pulte Homes Inc. of Broomfield Hills, Michigan have agreed to pay $4.3 million in fines for failing to control runoff at construc...
The St Louis Post-Dispatch article by Sarah Lohman (June 11, 08) was really frightening. She reports that scientists predict the biggest ever dead zone of 10,000 square miles!!!!!!
This is oxygen deprived water in which algae consumes oxygen forcing life to flee or die. The Midwestern corn grown fo...
