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.

New Books: Talking with Kids about Climate Change, Earth Under Fire

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It would be interesting to review these book & see how they handles issues
surrounding Indigenous/POC, false solutions, capitalism, etc.

ASW

From: <ecoauthor@howweknowclimatechange.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:28 PM

Talking with Kids about Climate Change–A new book leads the way
with ideas on how parents and teachers can talk to kids about global
warming … Informative, engaging, non-scary and energizing.
Perfect recommendation for Holiday Books and Gifts.

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and
Kids Explore Global Warming, by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch… was
written especially for middle schoolers and their teachers.

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Lakota Win Standing in Cameco Nuclear Fight

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Subject: Lakota win standing in Cameco nuclear fight
From:    “wsdp” <wsdp@igc.org>
Date:    Sat, December 13, 2008 7:07 am
To:      wsdp@igc.org
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FYI – Good news.

From the article below: “This is about the Human Rights of my clients
and their future generations to have clean drinking water,” said Bruce
Ellison, attorney for White Plume and Owe Aku.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Lakota win standing in Cameco nuclear fight

At:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2008/12/lakota-win-standing-in-cameco-
nuclear.html

By Alex White Plume
http://www.unobserver.com <http://www.unobserver.com/>

Water Protectors and Human Rights Activists Granted Standing to Oppose
the World’s Largest Uranium Producer Transnational Corporation: Cameco,
Inc.

PINE RIDGE SD–An Atomic Licensing Board (ALB) judges’ panel of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ruled in favor of petitioners who
filed interventions in the 10-year license renewal of Cameco, Inc.’s In
Situ Leach (ISL) uranium mine near Crawford, Nebraska.

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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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