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Chinese Ministry Newspaper: GM Soybeans Harm Health of China’s 1.3 Billion People

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April 30, 2014, sustainablepulse.com | “The Chinese ‘Science & Technology Abstracts Newspaper’ under the leadership of China’s State Science & Technology Ministry has published a paper that may deeply damage the Biotech industry worldwide.”

Kevin Village-Stone shared a link via The Organic & Non-GMO Report.
Chinese Ministry Newspaper: GM Soybeans Harm Health of China’s 1.3 Billion People
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Filed under: GMO Bans, GMO Labelling, GMO Lawsuits, GMO set backs, GMOs

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.”

Maryska Azzena shared a link via True Activist.
Yay For Dallas!
Dallas Ends Water Fluoridation, Saves $1 Million
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Filed under: Economics, Pollution, Water

Fossil Fuel Political Contributions Have Grown 11,761 Percent

April 29, 2014, gracelinks.org | “The fossil fuel industry may not know how to keep its pipes from leaking, trains from derailing or slurry from spilling, but boy do they know how to invest. A new report from the Sierra Club and Oil Change International found that the oil, natural gas and coal industries increased their political contributions by a jaw-dropping 11,761 percent from 2008 to 2012.”

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 Our Strength is Measured by How Much Our Opponents Spend Against Us.
Here are the trends the corporations are fighting:
— By nearly a 2-to-1 margin, voters think the country should be investing more in clean energy sources and energy efficiency rather than in fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. (Greenberg, Quinlan, and Rosner Research, January 2014)
— 72 percent of Western voters say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who wants to “promote more use of renewable energy – like wind and solar,” including 44 percent who say they would be “much more likely” to vote for such a candidate. (Colorado College, January, 2014)
— 67 percent of Americans want the government to invest more on “developing wind and solar power.” (Gallup, March 2014)
— 72 percent of small business owners support a national renewable energy standard that would require 20 percent of all our electricity from clean energy sources by 2020. (ASBC, June 2013)
Fossil Fuel Political Contributions Have Grown 11,761 Percent
A new report found that the oil, natural gas and coal industries increased their political contributions by a jaw-dropping 11,761 percent from 2008 to 2012.
gracelinks.org|By GRACE Communications Foundation
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Filed under: Business Policy, Economics, Energy - Polluting, Energy - Renewable, Oil, Pollution

Bluegrass pipeline project through Ohio and beyond is cancelled

Photo: Your protests - eminent domain + high cost = no pipeline. That's the formula used to stop the Bluegrass Pipeline, which was cancelled yesterday. http://bit.ly/1mdqKe9April 29, 2014, www.wksu.org | “The billion-dollar Bluegrass pipeline that was to be running across Ohio in 2015 will not be.  WKSU’s Tim Rudell reports on the decision of its builders to scrap the project. The plan was to send some production of the Utica and Marcellus shale from Ohio and Pennsylvania to distribution facilities on the Gulf Coast.  But in a written statement calling it a plan ahead of its time, project lead-partner, Williams Energy said there was ‘an insufficient level of firm customer commitment’  to go forward.”

Your protests – eminent domain + high cost = no pipeline.
That’s the formula used to stop the Bluegrass Pipeline, which was cancelled yesterday. http://bit.ly/1mdqKe9
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Filed under: Business Policy, Economics, Energy - Polluting, Oil

What’s Behind The Rising Opposition To Canada’s Big Oil Pipelines

April 29, 2014, www.huffingtonpost.ca | “High-stakes oil pipeline projects have taken a public lashing lately, whether in a plebiscite in British Columbia, more protests in Washington, D.C., or from a former U.S. president and several Nobel laureates coming out strongly against billion-dollar plans to move the diluted  bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands to international markets.”

Robert Brothers shared a link.
“In Kitimat, B.C., the coastal community that would serve as the endpoint of Northern Gateway, and the place where supertankers would fill up with Alberta bitumen, residents recently voted “No” to the project.”
Why There’s So Much Push-Back To Canada’s Pipelines
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Filed under: Economics, Energy - Polluting, Oil

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

April 29, 2014, ens-newswire.com | “The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the U.S. EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, a clean air standard that requires 28 states in the East, Midwest, and South to cut emissions of pollutants from coal-fired power plants that cross state lines and degrade air quality in downwind states.”

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“Millions of Americans will breathe easier, thanks to the decision today by the U.S. Supreme Court that will finally curtail second-hand smog – ozone smog and particle pollution blown across state borders far from their sources, threatening lives and health.” — The American Lung Association
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Cross-State Air Pollution Rule | Environment News Service
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Filed under: Air, Coal, Energy - Polluting, Pollution

Farmers report better animal health with non-GMO feed

Farmers report better animal health with non-GMO feed

April 28, 2014, www.non-gmoreport.com | “A growing number of farmers are reporting health problems with farm animals fed genetically modified feed and saying that animal health improves when feed is switched to non-GMO.”

Kevin Village-Stone shared a link via The Organic & Non-GMO Report.
Farmers report better animal health with non-GMO feed | The Organic & Non-GMO Report
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Filed under: Animals, Animals & Plants, Compassionate Actions, GMO set backs, GMOs

APP to “protect and restore” 1 million hectares of forests

Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra

April 28, 2014, greenpeaceblogs.org | “During the long campaign to break the deforestation habit of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), there have been some headlines I thought I would never get to write. But the above headline, like the news last year that APP would commit to ‘No Deforestation’, is definitely one of those.”

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“Woohoo!
APP to ‘protect and restore’ 1 million hectares of forests
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A huge step in forest conservation policy!”
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Filed under: Business Policy, Forests, Local Policy, National Policy, Protection, Protests, Restoration, Sustainable Forestry

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

Ag experts helping farmers switch to non-GMO, sustainable production

Ag experts helping farmers switch to non-GMO, sustainable productionApril 28,2014, www.non-gmoreport.com | “Kalmolvathin’s South Dakota-based company, Verity Farms, LLC is one of a growing number of businesses that are helping US farmers switch to non-GMO and more sustainable farming practices. Verity works with 300-400 farmers throughout the US to help them grow healthier plants, which will produce healthier foods for people and animals.”

Kevin Village-Stone shared a link via The Organic & Non-GMO Report.

Ag experts helping farmers switch to non-GMO, sustainable production | The Organic & Non-GMO Report

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Filed under: Education, Farms & Gardens, GMO set backs, GMOs, Organic Farming, People, Profiles