Governor Mary Fallin singed the bill into law Friday, bringing an end to the state’s 5-decade ban on slaughtering horses.
Governor Mary Fallin singed the bill into law Friday, bringing an end to the state’s 5-decade ban on slaughtering horses.
Since losing a court case in 2010 to Center for Food Safety for the unlawful planting of GMO sugar beets, Monsanto and other biotech companies have been desperate to find a way around court mandated environmental impact statements required as a result of a U.S. district court’s ruling,” the group writes.
since stepping down as governor in 2011, Ed Rendell has worked as a paid consultant to a private equity firm with investments in the natural gas industry.
There are no exceptions for rape, incest, the health of the mother or if she would lose the pregnancy anyway as a result of a fetal abnormality.
When asked about the anti-Jordan Cove initiative that we will vote on next May, a Portland lawyer who worked for the failed Astoria LNG terminal pointed out the value of delay: “. . . if there's enough local opposition and they tie it up in court long enough these...
Just the other day, yet another ripple of excitement ran through the anti-LNG crowd. This ripple was about a news item announcing plans for a new, so-called Australian LNG export terminal in California. Folks, let's take a deep breath; there may be less to this than...
One of the many deficiencies in the draft EIS (environmental impact statement) raised during last night's FERC meeting regarding the Jordan Cove LNG proposal is that out of 5,048 pages there is no discussion about alternatives. Other locations for the proposed...
Hansen first rose to prominence in 1988 when his testimony at a highly publicized US Congressional hearing thrust the issue of man-made climate change onto the political agenda.
U.S. is exporting its polluting gases, particularly in the form of coal, like never before. Figures released in March by the official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show U.S. coal exports reached a record of more than 115 million tons in 2012, more than double the 2009 figure.
In the face of a government by and for the one percent, two medical doctors, Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers, left their careers behind to fight against a dysfunctional system and offer policy alternatives.
more than 3,200 people nationwide are serving life terms without parole for nonviolent offenses. Of those prisoners, 80 percent are behind bars for drug-related convictions
Filmmaker Michael Fountain produced this documentary, Bonecrusher, from the perspective of the men who work these mines in order to fuel America’s thirst for energy.
along the 35th parallel and another incident in Paducah, Kentucky was on the 36th parallel the same parallel as Jefferson Labs’ CEBAF facility. On a lark I looked for an accelerator in the neighborhood of the massive Paranagua, Brazil
Coos County’s progressive community has absolutely no representation on the county commission. Discussing the merits of participating in a class action lawsuit proposed by Linn County against the State of Oregon, the commissioners made it clear that nature only has...
It's no secret that the Coos County Board of Commissioners is no fan of Matt Rowe. Rowe was, until last Thursday, running unopposed for the county treasurer's position on a what he calls a transparency platform. Last week, Megan Simms, the newly hired finance...