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Feds to Release Water for Klamath and Trinity Salmon; Farm Districts Protest

(Dan Brekke/KQED)August 22, 2014, blogs.kqed.org | “The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Friday that it will release water over the next several weeks to aid chinook salmon on the Klamath and Trinity rivers — a move that native tribes on the river have lobbied for to prevent a repeat of a catastrophic die-off that killed tens of thousands of fish headed upstream to spawn in 2002.”

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BUREAUCRAT STANDS UP FOR SALMON
A big shout out to David Murillo, Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director, for his openness to new information about the risk of a disastrous fish kill in the Klamath River, and his courage to reverse his earlier decision to withhold water, knowing that he would now be immediately challenged in court.
Given the choice between a massive fish kill vs. a bit more irrigation water for the Central Valley, he made the right call. Bureaucrats who stand up to big money need our support, so let’s give it to him! Call his office at 916-978-5000 during business hours, Monday-Friday.
Photo: BUREAUCRAT STANDS UP FOR SALMON A big shout out to David Murillo, Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director, for his openness to new information about the risk of a disastrous fish kill in the Klamath River, and his courage to reverse his earlier decision to withhold water, knowing that he would now be immediately challenged in court. Given the choice between a massive fish kill vs. a bit more irrigation water for the Central Valley, he made the right call. Bureaucrats who stand up to big money need our support, so let's give it to him! Call his office at 916-978-5000 during business hours, Monday-Friday.
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Filed under: Animals, Animals & Plants, Compassionate Actions, Earth Ceremonies, Endangered Species, Farms & Gardens, Fish, Native Peoples, Native Peoples, Land, Ocean Fish, Protection, Restoration, Rivers & Wetlands, Water

Why conservationists need a little hope: saving themselves from becoming the most depressing scientists on the planet

August 19, 2014, news.mongabay.com | “Here’s a challenge: take a conservationist out for a drink and ask them about their work. Nine times out of ten—or possibly more—you’ll walk away feeling frustrated, despondent, and utterly hopeless. You’ll hear about rainforests being chopped down for palm oil or chopsticks; or a just-discovered species that probably just went extinct; or a government that is worse than ambivalent: corrupt; or a shadowy corporation that’s doing some horrific thing to ecosystems and local people just to make greedy shareholders happy.”

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Here’s a great article about why to support the kind of cheerleading that we do at Good News for the Earth —
interviews with top conservation biologists
Why conservationists need a little hope
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the human brain is wired to try harder only when there is reason to believe that those efforts will make a difference. — The Sword of Damocles over our head is not the right image
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Filed under: Air, Cap and Trade, Climate, Forests, GMOs, International Policy, Lawsuits - Climate, Local Policy, National Policy, Ocean Pollution, Oceans, Plastic Bags, Pollution, Protection, Protests, Recycling, Trash cleanups, Water

California curbs injection of toxic fracking waste into aquifers needed in severe drought

July 22, 2014, rt.com | “California is shutting down 11 oil and gas wastewater injection sites and reviewing over 100 others in the state’s drought-ravaged Central Valley as officials fear companies have pumped toxic fracking fluids into needed drinking water aquifers.”

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CALIFORNIA HALTS AND REVIEWS FRACKING INJECTION OF TOXIC WASTE IN AQUIFERS IN LIGHT OF DROUGHT
California curbs injection of toxic fracking waste into aquifers needed in severe drought
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California is shutting down 11 oil and gas wastewater injection sites and reviewing over 100 others in the state’s…
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Filed under: Business Policy, Energy - Polluting, Fracking, Pollution, Water

Feds Okay $1-Billion Los Angeles River Project

May 28, 2014, www.kcet.org | “The jury is in and the Los Angeles River’s future seems to be bright. After more than six months of intense lobbying by the city, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) has announced that it will be recommending a more ambitious $1-billion plan to restore an 11-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River from downtown through Elysian Park.”

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Plans for revitalizing the LA RIVER move closer to reality! Anyone from LA? We need your signatures to show support…. http://www.lamyor.org/restore_the_la_river?recruiter_id=91995 ARTICLE HERE: http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/lariver/confluence/arbor-study/feds-okay-1-billion-los-angeles-river-project.html
Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
www.lamayor.org
Show your support for the full implementation of Alternative 20 to restore our Los Angeles River. The US Army Corps has recommended the $1.08 billion dollar plan. Now let’s bring it…
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Filed under: Pollution, Protection, Restoration, Rivers & Wetlands, Water

EPA protects Kauai water quality by compelling Tahiti Nui to close cesspools

May 27, 2014, yosemite.epa.gov | “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it has reached a settlement with Tahiti Nui Enterprises that includes a $69,000 penalty for its longstanding failure to close three large capacity cesspools at the Tahiti Nui Restaurant and Bar in Hanalei, Kauai.”

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05/27/2014: EPA protects Kauai water quality by compelling Tahiti Nui Restaurant to Close Cesspools
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See the right hand column of this link for more EPA accomplishments re clothes dryers, emergency planning, storm water discharge, and old diesel engines.
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Filed under: Business Policy, Ocean Pollution, Oceans, Pollution, Water

Groundwater extraction can be subject to Public Trust Doctrine

May 21, 2014, www.siskiyoudaily.com | “Judge Allen Sumner has issued a tentative ruling in the case Environmental Law Foundation v. State Water Resources Control Board, answering the question of whether the Public Trust Doctrine applies to groundwater extraction.”

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Thanks to the Environmental Law Foundation, groundwater extraction in the Scott River basin is now tentatively considered under the Public Trust Doctrine! Potentially a big step towards water accountability and dam removal!
Judge: Groundwater extraction can be subject to Public Trust Doctrine
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Judge Allen Sumner has issued a tentative ruling in the case Environmental Law Foundation v. State Water Resources…”
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Filed under: Pollution, Protection, Rivers & Wetlands, Water

Dallas Ends Water Fluoridation, Saves $1 Million

fountain-197334_640April 30, 2014, www.trueactivist.com | “After months of city council meetings with regular visits from citizens concerned about the fluoridated water supply, Dallas council members decided to take action. On the 23rd of April, the members officially chose to end fluoridating the water supply. This practice has gone on for five decades to prevent tooth decay, even though it has been proven to be inefficient and to cause more harm than good.”

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Yay For Dallas!
Dallas Ends Water Fluoridation, Saves $1 Million
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Two energy giants forced to clean up uranium mess

April 28, 2014, www.hcn.org | “Few companies have done more to poison the West than Kerr-McGee, the energy producer that once operated 50 uranium mines on the Navajo Nation – sickening thousands of miners and residents with lung cancer, pulmonary fibrosis and other illnesses related to radiation.”

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A government lawsuit forced Kerr-McGee and Anadarko to put billions into detoxing: $1 billion will clean up abandoned uranium mines around the Navajo Nation, and another $1.1 billion will go toward detoxing the Lake Mead site.
Two energy giants forced to clean up uranium in Navajo Lands.
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Filed under: Business Policy, Climate, Energy - Polluting, Local Policy, Nuclear, Pollution, Protection, Restoration, Rivers & Wetlands, Trash cleanups, Water

Largest Cleanup in EPA History Proposed

April 14, 2014, www.enn.com | “In an historic action that will protect people’s health and the environment, and benefit riverfront communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to remove 4.3 million cubic yards of highly contaminated sediment from the lower eight miles of the Passaic River in New Jersey. The sediment in the Passaic River is severely contaminated with dioxin, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants from more than a century of industrial activity. Ninety percent of the volume of contaminated sediments in the lower Passaic are in the lower eight miles of the river.”

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Largest Cleanup in EPA History Proposed for the from the lower eight miles, Passaic River, N.J.
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Filed under: Plastic Bags, Pollution, Recycling, Recycling & Plastics, Trash cleanups, Water

Annual ‘Blessing Mount Ashland’ ceremony follows canceled ski season

April 9, 2014, www.mailtribune.com | “Bare trees, bright sun and wet snow greeted about 75 people of different spiritual walks who gathered Tuesday afternoon for the eighth annual “Blessing Mount Ashland” ceremony.”

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REGIONAL NEWSPAPER HEADLINES A SPIRITUAL CEREMONY FOR THE EARTH!
When has this happened before? May it now happen more and more!This shows that we need no longer be shy about our feelings for the Earth.
Whenever you do a ceremony, don’t forget to tell the media.

More and more, people are realizing that things are different now than they have ever been, so they’ll be wanting to pay more attention to our larger home.

Here’s a link to the article. Photos and a video are linked to from here:
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20140409%2FNEWS%2F404090308

HEADLINE! “TO HONOR THE MOUNTAIN” – BLESSING MOUNT ASHLAND
Big thanks to Medford Mail Tribune Editor Bob Hunter for putting this powerful headline across the top of the front page! Big thanks to writer Nick Morgan and photographer Julia Moore for their excellent coverage.
And big thanks to the hundreds of people who have worked hard over the last 30 years to increase the environmental awareness of thousands of people in the Rogue Valley, so that now it has become a natural, common sense thing to Honor the Mountain, to Honor the Earth.Photo: HEADLINE! "TO HONOR THE MOUNTAIN" - BLESSING MOUNT ASHLAND<br /> Big thanks to Medford Mail Tribune Editor Bob Hunter for putting this powerful headline across the top of the front page! Big thanks to writer Nick Morgan and photographer Julia Moore for their excellent coverage.<br /> And big thanks to the hundreds of people who have worked hard over the last 30 years to increase the environmental awareness of thousands of people in the Rogue Valley, so that now it has become a natural, common sense thing to Honor the Mountain, to Honor the Earth.

 

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Filed under: Earth Ceremonies, Water