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Shared from the 2018-05-25 The Denver Post eEdition NEAR GREAT SAND DUNES Navajos, EPA don’t want land drilled By Bruce Finley The Denver Post

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 25 May 2018 in Ecotourism

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BLUE US SCREENING JUNE 6 Book Now

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 24 May 2018 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

https://us.demand.film/blue/ Book Now, To make sure the theater near you has enough movie goers to show BLUE https://us.demand.film/blue/ June 6 Major Ocean Film “BLUE: shows in over 500 Theatres in US, Click link to learn more, join the thousands attending to learn about our ocean...

Poaching Elephants for their SKIN

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 24 May 2018 in Wildlife Conservation

Poachers Are Killing Asian Elephants for Their Skin BY JUSTINE E. HAUSHEER MAY 21, 2018 Follow Justine Working elephants socialize in a logging camp in northern Myanmar. Photo © Justine E. Hausheer / The Nature Conservancy S...

Streamflow in the West

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 24 May 2018 in Water Conservation

Streamflow in the West By Robert Harris, Senior Staff Attorney | May 8th, 2018 The healthiest flowing rivers in the West have one thing in common: a robust streamflow sufficient to meet all of the diverse uses of rivers. Flowing rivers sustain wetlands, provid...

XCEL ENERGY SAYS CARBON EMISSIONS DOWN 35% SINCE ’05

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 24 May 2018 in Climate Change

Shared from the 2018-05-24 The Denver Post eEdition Xcel Energy has cut carbon emissions 35 percent since 2005 and expects to surpass 50 percent by 2022, largely by retiring aging coal plants and replacing them with renewable sources. The Minneapolis-based owner of Colorado’s largest utility appea...

People's Climate Movement - Global Climate Action Summit, September 8, JOIN

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 24 May 2018 in Climate Change

This September, leaders from around the world are heading to California for the Global Climate Action Summit to talk about climate change. Just days before, thousands will take action around the country demanding their elected officials make commitments at the summit that will protect our communitie...

Migrant Children Ripped from Parents, To be placed in camps on military bases

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 in Earth Violators

One of the most outrageous and upsetting stories reported on May 16th is that the Trump Administration is preparing to remove migrant children from their parents and also acting against children under 18 years arriving alone into this country and are preparing to warehouse them on military bases. Th...

Interior Department moves to reverse Obama-era rules on hunting bears, wolves in Alaska

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 in Animals

Nation May 21, 2018 7:01 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama-era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting brown bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother black bears and cubs hibernating in their dens. ...

Humans Account for Little Next to Plants and Bugs

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 in General Environment

WASHINGTON » When you weigh all life on Earth, billions of humans don’t amount to much compared to trees, earthworms or even viruses. But we really know how to throw what little weight we have around, according to a first-of-its-kind global census of the footprint of life on the planet. Humans only...

NASA: Humans are causing massive changes Redistribution of freshwater is occurring all across Earth

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 in Water Conservation

By Chris Mooney The Washington Post A grounded ship sits on the dry bed of the Aral Sea, which is about 62 miles from Aralsk, Kazakhstan. The Aral, the world’s fourth-largest freshwater sea, once covered an area the size of Ireland. But then it became part of the Soviet Union. The Communists div...

Pruitt Pressed for details on his new legal defense fund

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 in Earth Violators

By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press WASHINGTON» Four Senate Democrats asked Scott Pruitt on Monday for details about a new legal defense fund to help the Environmental Protection Agency administrator as he weathers a series of federal ethics investigations. Pruitt confirmed at a Senate...

PRUITT AMENDS SAFETY RULES** Earth Protect NOTE: New Plant Explosion Days Later

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 in Earth Violators

WASHINGTON » Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt moved Thursday to rescind a series of safety measures proposed for chemical plants nationwide after a deadly blast at a Texas fertilizer plant. Pruitt signed a significantly revised slate of rules from the Obama era on safety a...

Pruitt Amends Safety Rules for Chemical Plant as New Explosion Occurs

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 21 May 2018 in Earth Violators

Shared from the 2018-05-18 The Denver Post PRUITT AMENDS SAFETY RULES** Earth Protect NOTE: New Plant Explosion Days Later WASHINGTON » Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt moved Thursday to rescind a series of safety measures proposed for chemical plants nationwi...

BLUE FILM June 6 in Over 500 Theaters, Reserve Now

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 21 May 2018 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

https://us.demand.film/blue/ June 6 Major Ocean Film “BLUE: shows in over 500 Theaters in US, Click link to learn more, join the thousands attending to learn about our oceans, their beauty and how we can sustain them. Reserve NOW to attend.

Ozone Treaty Being Violated Earth at Risk

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 17 May 2018 in Air Quality

Shared from the 2018-05-17 The Denver Post eEdition ENVIRONMENT High-flying whodunit: Who’s cheating on the ozone treaty? Scientists have stumbled on to an atmospheric detective story: Someone in East Asia appears to be cheating on a three-decade-old global environmental treaty that banned ozone-...

The Case for Firing Scott Pruitt, Head of EPA

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 17 May 2018 in Climate Change

Destroying Public Confidence in the EPA Pruitt is “ruling” the EPA in a manner more befitting a potentate than a public servant—operating in secrecy, silencing employees, and spending lavishly on himself. While Pruitt calls for draconian cuts in environmental programs, he has been wasting taxpayer ...

Sunscreen harming coral reefs, We are loving them to death, We Must Make Changes

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

New research about sunscreen's damaging effects on coral reefs suggests that you might want to think twice before slathering it on. Reports about the harmful environmental effects of certain chemicals in the water have been circulated for years, but according to the authors of a new study released...

Coral Reefs at Risk in Caribbean

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many people in coastal communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean depend on the natural resources provided by reefs for their livelihoods. Ensuring proper management of the reefs is vital for the economic and environmental health of the region, but there ...

Reefs at Risk Executive Summary Report

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The World Resources Institute produced the report in close collaboration with the USAID-funded Coral Triangle Support Partnership (CTSP). Reefs at Risk Revisited in the Coral Triangle was adapted from WRI’s 2011 global analysis of threats to coral reefs, Reefs at Risk Revisited, and supplemented wit...

High Ethanol gas to be sold year round, increasing smog

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 11 May 2018 in Fossil Fuels

Shared from the 2018-05-09 The Denver Post eEdition Briefs HIGH-ETHANOL GAS TO BE SOLD YEAR-ROUND WASHINGTON » President Donald Trump will allow year-round sales of renewable fuel with blends of 15 percent ethanol as part of an emerging deal to make changes to the fede...

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