The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has put the ecosystems, water resources, and residents of California at urgent risk, expert critics are warning, by accepting a failed scientific review of the dangers of fracking in the state as a basis to begin issuing permits for the controversial gas drilling technique as soon as next year. Read more about Feds Set to Open Fracking Floodgates in California Based on One Flawed Study[…]

After spending over 30 years behind bars, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown— two African-American half brothers who faced the death penalty and life in prison respectively — were set free on Wednesday after a DNA test proved that the men had no connection to the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl for which Read more about Proving Failure of Justice, Brothers Exonerated After 30 Years Behind Bars[…]

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President Obama’s top military adviser, told members of Congress on Thursday that the U.S. is actively considering deploying a limited number of U.S. combat troops to fight alongside Iraqi soldiers moving to retake Mosul and other areas under the control of Islamic State Read more about Chairman of Joint Chiefs: We Are 'Certainly Considering' US Combat Troops for Iraq[…]

A day after President Obama told the American public he was preparing to bomb targets inside the sovereign state of Syria and that he did not need congressional approval to do so, critics are lashing out against what Bruce Ackerman, a professor of law and political science at Yale University, described as “imperial hubris” on Read more about Obama Charged with 'Imperial Hubris' Unmatched Even by Bush[…]

No doubt emboldened by the Scottish campaign to break away from the UK, Catalan politicians are expected to approve a law on Friday that would allow for a vote on independence from Spain this November. The referendum would be non-binding and will pose two questions: 1) Do you want Catalonia to be a state? 2) Read more about Scottish Campaign Boosts Catalan Quest for Independence[…]

Opponents of tar sands got some good news this week. Oil and gas company Statoil announced Thursday that it was shelving its Corner tar sands project in Alberta. Click Here: All Blacks Rugby Jersey The Norwegian firm’s decision to postpone the project “for a minimum of three years” is due to economic costs of labor Read more about It Was a Good Week in the Fight to Stop Tar Sands[…]

Leaders of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong on Wednesday used China’s National Holiday to announce their determination to escalate tactics against what they see as unjust rule by the pro-Beijing government that now controls seven million people who live in the former British colony. Though the Wall Street Journal reports that Hong Kong’s chief Read more about As China Plays Waiting Game, 'Umbrella Revolution' Vows Escalation[…]

A class of widely used pesticides called neonicotinoids poses a bigger ecological threat than DDT, an environmental watchdog has warned. Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Gord Miller issued the cautionary words Tuesday while speaking to press about his just-released annual report, which includes a section on the “Plight of Pollinators.” Explaining the problems with neonicotinoids, also Read more about Widely Used Pesticides Pose Bigger Threat Than DDT: Watchdog[…]

Fed up with the lack of action by Florida lawmakers to protect the state’s communities from rising seas and other climate change-related risks, officials in the city of South Miami have passed an ambitious resolution calling for the state to be split in two—allowing for the southern half of the state to take climate action Read more about 'Not Political… Survival': Faced With Rising Climate Risks, South Florida City Votes for Secession[…]

The UK’s announcement this week that it would not support search and rescue operations to save migrants in the Mediterranean Sea is “appalling” and an affront to human dignity, a United Nations human rights expert has said. The UK’s declaration came out earlier this month in a statement to Parliament but was widely reported on Read more about UK's Plan to Use 'Death as Deterrence Appalling': UN Human Rights Expert[…]