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Activists Fight Plans For Prison On Mountaintop-Removal Site

June 19, 2016 Candace Bernd, www.truthout.org Resist! Environmental Justice, EPA, health, Prisons

By Candace Bernd for TruthOut. Activists from Kentucky and across the US met in Washington, DC, this week to highlight the intersections between environmental justice issues and the prison-industrial complex, and to protest plans for the construction of a new federal prison at a mountaintop-removal coal mining site that they say will impact the health of incarcerated people and endangered species. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) plans to allocate $444 million in federal money to construct a new maximum-security prison at a 700-acre site in Roxana, in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. The location is the site of a former mountaintop-removal coal mine and constitutes habitat for scores of endangered species. Mountaintop-removal mining involves exploding and flattening the tops of mountains to expose underlying coal seams, and has long polluted regional waterways.

EPA Wrong About Dangers Of Frack-Impacted Water In Pennsylvania

June 10, 2016 Sharon Kelly, www.desmogblog.com Educate! EPA, Fracking, Pennsylvania

By Sharon Kelly for Desmg Blog - Back in 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made a startling announcement, shaking up the battle over fracking in one of the nation's highest-profile cases where drillers were suspected to have caused water contamination. Water testing results were in for homeowners along Carter Road in Dimock, PA, where for years, homeowners reported their water had turned brown, became flammable, or started clogging their well with “black greasy feeling sediment” after Cabot Oil and Gas began drilling in the area.

EPA Official Covered Up Methane Leakage Problems

June 9, 2016 Jim Warren, www.fsm2016.org Educate! EPA, Gas, Methane, Whistleblowers

By Jim Warren for NC Warn - Durham, NC – A watchdog group today charged that a high-ranking federal official connected to the fossil fuel industry committed scientific fraud and possibly criminal misconduct in a case with sweeping ramifications for global climate change and the safety of workers and neighbors of natural gas sites across much of the United States. The group called for an expedited investigation due to the urgent climate and safety implications of the EPA’s failure to curb widespread methane emissions.

Glyphosate Report Raises Questions Over EPA’s Ties To Monsanto

May 11, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Educate! EPA, glyphosate, Monsanto

By Lorraine Chow for Eco Watch - The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is questioning why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted and then suddenly pulled its highly anticipated risk assessment of glyphosate, the main ingredient in weedkillers such as Monsanto’s flagship herbicide Roundup. On April 29, the EPA’s Cancer Assessment Review Committee published a report online about glyphosate concluding that the chemical is not likely carcinogenic to humans. However, even though it was marked “Final” and was signed by 13 members of CARC, the report disappeared from the website three days later.

Petition Demands EPA Revoke License Of Glyphosate

April 7, 2016 Lydia Wheeler, www.thehill.com Resist! EPA, Herbicides, Monsanto, Petitions

By Lydia Wheeler for The Hill - More than 14,000 people have signed a petition that asks the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke the license for glyphosate — the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup. “Recent tests have found glyphosate/Roundup in our water, urine, breast milk, food, beer and now, wine — even organic wine from vineyards which do not use Roundup,” Moms Across America wrote in the Care2 petition. Last April, the United Nations World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released a scientific assessment that found glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

Fracking Study Finds Toxins In Wyoming Town’s Groundwater

March 31, 2016 Neela Banerjee, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! EPA, Fracking, Wyoming

By Neela Banerjee for Inside Climate News - Hydraulic fracturing and other oil and gas operations contaminated the groundwater in Pavillion, Wyoming, according to a new study by Stanford University scientists. The findings raise concerns about possible water pollution in other heavily fracked and geologically similar communities in the U.S. West. Pavillion has long been a flashpoint in the national debate over the potential impact of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on drinking water.

Flint’s Best Hope For Justice? The Streets

March 23, 2016 Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.theguardian.com Resist! EPA, Flint, Lead Poisoning, Water

By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo for The Guardian - If there is to be justice for the people of Flint, it will not be found inside the halls of Congress. It will come from where it always does: the street. In Thursday’s hearings on the poisonings, residents sat in the audience of the hearing room looking to their coiffed representatives for answers, for redress of grievous harm. Amid all the decorum they did not see that they have more courage – and integrity – than those whose help they sought. A seasoned ear may have heard the nuance, the faint drift among the many accusations leveled during the recent hearings.

From Farm To Table: Protecting Farmworkers From Pesticides

February 22, 2016 Kari Birdseye, www.earthjustice.org Resist! EPA, Farmworkers, Mortgages, Pesticides

By Kari Birdseye for Earthjustice - At first, the sticky drops raining down were a welcome reprieve from a long, hot day spent uprooting weeds on a Minnesota farm. "I remember thinking, 'This is cool!' As in, 'This will cool me off,'" said Juan Fernando Rodriguez Tellez. As Tellez and his friends continued to pull at the huge weeds tangled within the cornstalks, they paid little attention to the crop duster flying overhead that was supposed to be dousing a neighboring field. Tellez wore long sleeves and pants for protection against the sun, but as he pulled weeds the drizzle leaked inside the glove on his right hand.

Bridgeton, Flint Moms Join Forces Vs EPA

February 20, 2016 Staff, www.beyondnuclear.org Resist! EPA, Flint, Michigan

By Staff of Beyond Nuclear - As reported by Brian Kelly at CBS St. Louis, Just Moms STL from Bridgeton, Missouri and Water Warriors, including Water You Fight For in Flint, Michigan are standing in solidarity. They are demanding action from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, regarding, respectively: a leaking radioactive waste dump in the flood plain of the Missouri River, upstream of drinking water intakes for metro St. Louis, now at risk from an underground garbage dump fire burning less than 1,000 feet away

EPA’s Deliberate Poisoning Of Flint’s Children

February 12, 2016 Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! EPA, Flint, Lead Poisoning, Michigan

By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo for Black Agenda Report - Flint, Michigan, was declared a “sacrifice zone” because its majority Black and poor population’s “presence is no longer required and their lives are considered a hindrance to economic progress,” writes the author, who blew the whistle on EPA complicity in U.S. corporate poisoning of South African vanadium mine workers. The EPA is a serial criminal that has “utterly failed the Flint community and must be held accountable.” The first Congressional Hearing on the poisoning of predominately African-American and working class Flint, Michigan, residents took place Wednesday, February 3rd...

Navajo, Others Press EPA, Congress To Act On Uranium Mine Cleanup

February 4, 2016 Jessica Swarner, www.cronkitenews.azpbs.org Educate! Congress, EPA, Indigenous Peoples, Mine, Uranium

By Jessica Swarner for Cronkite News - WASHINGTON – Longtime Sanders resident Wayne Lynch was told in July that the water on his ranch contained dangerously high amounts of uranium, yet he is still using it. “There’s no other water source we have,” Lynch said this week. “There’s no other well that they could tap into.” Lynch said the problem extends to the Sanders community, including nearby schools, which have no choice but to use contaminated wells. “People are always getting cancer,” he said, naming his mother, an aunt and a grandmother among those who have been diagnosed with the disease.

FERC Should Review Indirect Impacts, GHG Emissions

January 25, 2016 Jeremiah Shelor, www.naturalgasintel.com Educate! Environment, EPA, FERC

By Jeremiah Shelor for BGI - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this week that FERC should require applicants seeking approval under the Natural Gas Act to provide more information on a project’s indirect impacts, including potential increases in gas production and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EPA submitted comments Tuesday on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Draft Guidance Manual for Environmental Report Preparation for Applications Filed Under the Natural Gas Act. FERC released a revised version of its guidance manual, which had not been updated since 2002, last month...

Enviros Demand EPA Shut Down Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Facility

January 17, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Environment, EPA, Gas

By John Zangas for DC Media Group. A gas leak from a faulty well was detected at the SoCalGas Aliso Canyon storage facility on October 23. Reports indicate that the risks of a total blowout of the well have increased with every attempt to contain it. The leaking gas is mostly methane, a potent greenhouse gas, but also contains carcinogenic gases such as benzene. The sulfur additives required to detect colorless and odorless methane are also toxic. More than 10,000 people living nearby have been forced to relocate because they were becoming sick from breathing the gases. The gas leak is emitting 4.5 million cars’ worth of pollution every day. Walker Foley, an organizer with the LA chapter of Food and Water Watch, said “What we need is a total shut down.”

Protesters Converge On All EPA Regional Offices Against Clean Power Plan

January 13, 2016 Leila Roberts, www.ourpowercampaign.org Resist! Clean Power Plan, Energy, EPA, Protests

By Leila Roberts for Our Power Campaign - Albuquerque, NM | 12 January 2016 — Environmental justice leaders from frontline communities hardest-hit by climate change and pollution will converge on 10 Environmental Protection Agency regional office headquarters Jan. 19, 2016, to mark the end of the final public comment period for the Obama Administration’s federal Clean Power Plan to reduce power plant carbon emissions 32% by 2030. These peaceful protests and press conferences will launch the “Our Power Plan,” the Climate Justice Alliance’s answer to the Clean Power Plan. Community leaders are also arranging private meetings with EPA Regional Administrators on that day.

EPA Bans Highly Toxic GMO Pesticide

November 29, 2015 Ocean Robbins, www.foodrevolution.org Resist! EPA, Food Safety, GMOs, Herbicides, Pesticides

By Ocean Robbins for the Food Revolution Network. In phenomenal and ground-breaking news, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just announced that it is revoking the registration of the controversial chemical Enlist Duo. This is a huge set-back for the GMO industry. Enlist Duo is the super-toxic herbicide (a combination of glyphosate and 2,4-D) that is designed to be sprayed on Dow Chemical’s genetically-engineered corn (and soy), widely referred to in the organic industry as Agent Orange Corn. The EPA recognized that the two active ingredients in Enlist Duo could result in greater toxicity to non-target plants, and issued a ruling that may effectively end the threat of Agent Orange Corn. But, at the very same time, Monsanto, Dow, and their special interest friends have unveiled a new, sneaky approach to hide information about GMOs. Recognizing that the “Deny Americans Right to Know (DARK)” act that they pushed through the U.S. Congress is likely dead in the Senate, they're offering a "compromise" piece of legislation. It would require GMO labels on food products, but ONLY if they're hidden in QR codes (which take a smart phone to decipher) on the back of a product.

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