Environmentalism

Will Happer, Princeton’s Galileo William Happer EPW Testimony February 25, 2009, Update on the Latest Global Warming Science, Testimony of William Happer, Professor of Physics, Princeton University Is CO2 a pollutant?

A New Generation of Nuclear Reactors, the logical “Solution” for the Climate Scare Stephen Tindale The “Switchers” and assorted prominent pro-nuclear climate activists: George Monbiot – columnist with The Guardian newspaper in the UK, and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning. “Atomic energy has just been subjected to one of the harshest […]

RT | November 11, 2014 As the US Navy conducts war games off the coasts of California and Hawaii over the next four years, environmentalists are fighting back with legal action over concerns that hundreds, if not thousands, of marine animals will be injured or killed. The Conservation Council for Hawaii has recently asked a […]

By JOHN LAFORGE | CounterPunch | November 6, 2014 On October 31, a new United Nations General Assembly First Committee resolution on depleted uranium (DU) weapons passed overwhelmingly. There were 143 states in favor, four against, and 26 abstentions. The measure calls for UN member states to provide assistance to countries contaminated by the weapons. […]

RT | November 5, 2014 The first of four sets of spent nuclear fuel rods has been removed from a damaged reactor building at Japan’s Fukushima power plant, scoring a major success in an effort to dismantle the quake and tsunami-wrecked facility. The 1,331 spent fuel rod assemblies weighting some 400 tons have been recovered […]

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | Statement to the UN First Committee | October 28, 2014 Nuclear disarmament has for too long been about waiting. Waiting for nuclear-armed states to fulfill their obligations. Waiting for the so-called “conditions” to be right for disarmament. While we wait, we do not get closer to the elimination […]

GRAIN | November 4, 2014 “Listening to farmers and addressing their specific needs. We talk to farmers about the crops they want to grow and eat, as well as the unique challenges they face. We partner with organizations that understand and are equipped to address these challenges, and we invest in research to identify relevant […]

By JOHN LaFORGE | CounterPunch | October 31, 2014 Weakening radiation standards; a cap on accident liability; reactor propaganda vs improvements; old units running past expiration dates; revving the engines beyond design specs …. You’d think we were itching for a meltdown. The Environmental Protection Agency has recommended increased radiation exposure limits following major releases. […]

RT | October 28, 2014 A local council has voted to re-open the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant on the outermost western coast of Japan, despite local opposition and meteorologists’ warnings, following tremors in a nearby volcano. Nineteen out of 26 members of the city council of Satsumasendai approved the reopening that is scheduled to take […]

By Z.C. Dutka | Venezuelanalysis | October 15, 2014 On Monday, in celebration of the nationally acclaimed Day of Indigenous Resistance, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro established a presidential council for indigenous peoples, handed over collective land titles to 14 original communities, lowered the threshold age for indigenous pensioners, and announced the creation of an institute […]