Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Bush Publishes Changes to Mountaintop Removal Rule

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies against buffer zone changes at congressional hearing

by Ken Ward Jr.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Bush administration today will publish its final rule to revoke key water quality protections, a move that critics say helps to protect mountaintop removal coal mining from tougher restrictions.

The changes approved by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement are scheduled for publication in today’s Federal Register.

Last week, the White House and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency paved the way for the OSM to finalize its more than five-year effort to rewrite the 1983 stream “buffer zone” rule.

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Climate, Precipitation, & Water Issues in the West

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Mass migration on the horizon. Expect lots of
cheap real estate, emptied highways.
Lance

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“The Las Vegas Valley gets 90 percent of its
drinking water from the river, which also
supplies tens of millions of people in Arizona,
California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and
Wyoming.

“The UNLV study is further evidence that climate
change has been affecting the river for some time.

“Its findings come on the heels of dire
predictions for the future of the Colorado.”
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Dec. 11, 2008

CLIMATE CHANGE: Study tracks river’s course
UNLV researchers: More rain, less snow

By HENRY BREAN

You don’t need a crystal ball to predict the
potential impacts of climate change on the

Colorado River. According to UNLV researchers,

what could happen to the river is happening

already.

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Activist Groups Challenge UN Definition of Forests

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For Immediate Release 11 December, 2008

Groups unite to challenge the definition of forests under UNFCCC/REDD

Poznan, Poland (UN Climate Conference)–Global Forest Coalition, The
Wilderness Society, World Rainforest Movement, Global Justice Ecology
Project, Via Campesina, the International Youth Delegation and the STOP GE
Trees Campaign united today to challenge the UN/REDD definition of forests.

Currently the UN considers industrial tree plantations as forests. This is,
simply put, an egregious error. Plantations are not forests. Forests are
diverse ecosystems and plantations are void of biodiversity. The UN
definition endangers Indigenous Peoples, forest dependent people, peasants,
small farmers, biodiversity and exacerbates climate change.

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