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.

US Fish and Wildlife Service Releases Flawed New Wilderness Policy for Wildlife Refuge System

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 14, 2008  1:39 PM

CONTACT: The Wilderness Society
Maribeth Oakes, 202-429-2674, Maribeth_Oakes@tws.org
Kathy Westra, 202-429-2642, Kathy_Westra@tws.org

US Fish and Wildlife Service Releases Flawed New Wilderness Policy for Wildlife Refuge System
Policy Ignores Global Warming, Exempts Alaska Refuges from Wilderness Review Process

WASHINGTON-November 14. The Wilderness Society (TWS) today criticized the Bush Administration for its hasty release of a flawed new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wilderness stewardship policy for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Major deficiencies of the new policy, issued yesterday, are that it fails to take into account the issue of climate change in managing the 21 million acres of designated Wilderness within the nation’s 540 wildlife refuges, and that it exempts all refuge lands in Alaska from requirements for wilderness reviews. In addition, the policy was released without any opportunity for public comment-a serious problem given the document’s other shortcomings.

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Natural-Gas Drilling Endangers Groundwater Supplies

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“Halliburton (HAL) and other gas-service giants
are fighting to keep secret the potentially
hazardous chemicals they use …”

“Halliburton threatened to cease natural-gas
operations in Colorado if regulators there
persisted in demanding the chemical recipe …”

” … regulators have only lately sought to learn more …”
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Business Week
November 11, 2008

Does Natural-Gas Drilling Endanger Water Supplies?
A debate is heating up over whether the
fracturing technique used in natural-gas drilling
could result in chemicals contaminating drinking
water

By Abrahm Lustgarten

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New Report Highlights Need to Act Now to Protect Wildlife From Global Warming

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 2008 5:26 PM

CONTACT: Defenders of Wildlife-Erin McCallum, (202)772-3217

New Report Highlights Need to Act Now to Protect Wildlife From Global Warming
Defenders of Wildlife releases “Beyond Cutting Emissions: Protecting Wildlife and Ecosystems in a Warming World.”

WASHINGTON – November 13 – The new administration of President-elect Barack Obama heralds a new era for U.S. action to address the threat of global warming, and the effects that climate change is already having on America’s wildlife and natural places. A report released today by Defenders of Wildlife provides a roadmap for how the next administration can help America’s wildlife and ecosystems survive the impacts of global warming.

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Study: Earth May Freeze Worse Than Ice Age

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Read this article carefully. Periodic oscillations in Eareth’s orbit have been ongoing throughout Earth’s history-resulting in dramatic climate shifts that include ice ages. This article states that Earth may head into a cold, icy more circular orbit from its current warmer more elliptical orbit over the course of the coming millenia. The article warns that this is not an excuse to deflect efforts at stopping global heating-and it also warns that politicos and industry denialists may try to utilize this study for exactly that. Watch for this!

ASW

Study: Earth May Freeze Worse Than Ice Age

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4AB6YG20081112

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