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.

Politics Overrules Biologists’ Views in Wolverine Decision

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This is particularly critical to climate and ecosystem relations. I got to know the wolverine fairly well-so to speak-during the Idaho forest-defense efforts in the 1990s. As with grizzly bears and tigers, wolverines are a wide-ranging, low-density species that require large tracts of pristine undeveloped wilderness for individuals to roam around in. As the article states-wolverines face threats from lessening snow-packs wrought by anthropogenic global heating-as well as from fragmentation of habitat by “development” of ANY kind. So listing the wolverine as endangered would not only help the species directly-but would ensure the protection of vast tracks of pristine undeveloped wilderness-which is critical to mitigating climate change and stabilizing the climate regime. The Bushies hate the ESA…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 30, 2008 3:01 PM

CONTACT: Earthjustice
David Gaillard, Defenders of Wildlife, (406) 586-3970
Tim Preso, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699
Joe Scott, Conservation Northwest, (360) 671-9950, ext.11
Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 484-7495
Politics Overrules Biologists’ Views in Wolverine Decision
Conservation groups act to save imperiled species

MISSOULA, Mont. – September 30 – A recent federal decision refusing to protect wolverines in the western United States is a case of political considerations winning out over scientific findings by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service experts, according to a coalition of 10 conservation groups that filed suit today in U.S. district court. The groups are challenging the agency’s decision to deny wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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First Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid Shot in Wild

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Hybrid bear shot dead in Canada – first grizzly-polar hybrid found in the wild:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4766217.stm

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Grand Canyon No Place for Uranium Mining

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Grand Canyon no place for uranium mining:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/260077

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Bottled Water at Issue in Great Lakes; Conservation and Commerce Clash

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Published on Monday, September 29, 2008 by The Washington Post
Bottled Water at Issue in Great Lakes; Conservation and Commerce Clash

by Kari Lydersen

CHICAGO – Even as a 10-year campaign to block wholesale export of Great Lakes water came to a successful conclusion in Congress last week, some legislators and environmentalists vowed to continue their fight to close a “bottled-water loophole,” a campaign that taps into a national debate over sales of H2O in disposable containers.

[Water from aquifers that feed Huron and the other Great Lakes is exempted from export regulations when it’s in containers of less than 5.7 gallons. (By John L. Russell — Associated Press)]Water from aquifers that feed Huron and the other Great Lakes is exempted from export regulations when it’s in containers of less than 5.7 gallons. (By John L. Russell — Associated Press)
A provision of the Great Lakes Compact allows water to be diverted from the basin if it is in containers holding less than 5.7 gallons. The question is whether bottling water from the aquifers that feed the lakes, the largest repository of fresh water on Earth, should be seen as ordinary human consumption, commercial production, or export of a treasured natural resource.
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