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 Salmon Plan Fails to Address Effects of Dams, Global Warming

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 17, 2008  2:48 PM

CONTACT: American Rivers
Michael Garrity, 206-852-5583 (cell)
 
New Salmon Plan Fails to Address Effects of Dams, Global Warming
American Rivers Urges Judge Redden to Give New Administration a Chance to Get it Right
 
WASHINGTON, DC – June 17 – Today a coalition of environmental and fishing organizations, including American Rivers, sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over the 2008 Biological Opinion, or Salmon Plan, on the Columbia and Snake river dams. The new Salmon Plan is the third attempt by NMFS in eight years to submit a plan that passes legal muster.

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Brazil Biofuels Boom Leading to Slave-Labor

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Published on Monday, June 16, 2008 by The Los Angeles Times
Human Cost of Brazil’s Biofuels Boom by Patrick J. McDonnell

BOCAINA, BRAZIL – For as far as the eye can see, stalks of sugar cane march across the hillsides here like giant praying mantises. This is ground zero for ethanol production in Brazil — “the Saudi Arabia of biofuels,” as some have already labeled this vast South American country.

But even as Brazil’s booming economy is powered by fuel processed from the cane, labor officials are confronting what some call the country’s dirty little ethanol secret: the mostly primitive conditions endured by the multitudes of workers who cut the cane.

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Oil Companies Given Clearance to Harass, Annoy, Endanger Polar Bears

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Published on Sunday, June 15, 2008 by Associated Press
Oil Companies Get OK To Annoy Bears by Dina Cappiello
WASHINGTON – Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations last week providing legal protection to seven oil companies planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska if small numbers of polar bears or Pacific walruses are incidentally harmed by their activities over the next five years.

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