New America Media: Environment

President Obama to Oklahoma: Every Resource Is at Your Disposal

Indian Country, News Report, Posted: May 21, 2013

“In an instant, neighborhoods were decimated,” he said. “Among the victims were young children who tried to take shelter in the safest place they knew, their school.”

First Class Action Lawsuit Against BP in Mexico

Inter Press Service, News Report, Emilio Godoy, Posted: May 16, 2013

A group of Mexican citizens are preparing the first civil lawsuit in the Mexican courts against British oil company BP for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

How the Sierra Club Learned to Love Immigration

Colorlines, News Report, Posted: May 16, 2013

The Sierra Club, one of the largest and oldest environmental organizations in the nation, announced last month its support for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. It was a unanimous decision among the group’s board of directors and marks a definitive break with the group’s troubled history on immigration—a history that has also plagued the environmental movement broadly.

Navajo Families Help Create Five-Year Uranium Cleanup Plan

Navajo Times, News Report, Posted: May 15, 2013

Back in 2006, various tribal and federal agencies dealing with remediating uranium mining on the reservation got together to set goals. The first five-year plan ended in 2012 with only some of these goals met and now the agencies are meeting again, this time with Navajo families involved, to set goals for a second five-year plan.

In May Revise, Gov. Brown Raids Fund to Tackle Climate Change

New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: May 15, 2013

Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Tuesday to divert money from the state's cap-and-trade program, money intended for local communities, to the general fund.

EPA Deems Keystone Review 'Insufficient', Green Groups Hint at Lawsuit

Inside Climate News, News Report, John H. Cushman Jr. , Posted: Apr 25, 2013

Enviromentalists and the EPA take apart the State Dept's Keystone review, and momentum shifts yet again toward pipeline opponents.

Entering a Resource-Shock World

New America Media, News Report, Michael Klare, Posted: Apr 22, 2013

Shrinking resources and the onset of extreme climate change are on a collision course to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition, and conflict.

Exxon Oil Spill Leaves Arkansas Neighborhood In Shock

New America Media, News Report, Lisa Song, Posted: Apr 06, 2013

Nearly a week after a burst pipeline spilled tar sands crude through a neighborhood in Arkansas, residents are without answers and overwhelmed.

The Price of Sand: Wisconsin Today, Minnesota Tomorrow?

TC Daily Planet, News Report, Posted: Mar 25, 2013

You can farm the same land over and over but once you mine it, it's gone," a Wisconsin woman told filmmaker Jim Tittle. Born and raised on a farm that's been in her family for generations, she represents one of the positions explored in his documentary, The Price of Sand, which focuses on Wisconsin conflict over silica mines, small towns and money — a conflict now playing out in southeastern Minnesota and in the Minnesota legislature.