Steve Lohr, Forest Supervisor, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service – By Glynn Wilson – The Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club is formally asking the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw a plan to lease 43,000 acres for oil and…
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A Beach Hotel Conference Center is Not Coastal Restoration in Wake of BP Gulf Oil Disaster
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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s been about three years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. By the time engineers finally figured out how to cap the…
Fracking in the Talladega National Forest is Not in the National, State or Local Interest
Editors Note: The nightmares of natural gas fracking being documented all over America are coming soon to Alabama, brought to you by Halliburton and its real estate agent, the federal Bureau of Land Management — unless enough people get together…
AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Joins Labor With Environmentalists in BlueGreen Alliance
Watch the Video Key segments from the speech By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 17) — The head of the largest and most powerful coalition of unions in America voiced his unequivocal support for the growing alliance between organized…
‘Good Jobs, Green Jobs’ Conference to Bring Unions and Environmentalists Together
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Locust Fork News-Journal Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson is heading to Washington, D.C. this week for a “Good Jobs, Green Jobs” conference, and will be there for a pre-conference panel and strategy session Monday afternoon for the…
Camping With WiFi in the Talladega National Forest
Get Involved to Stop Fracking on Public Land – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CANE CREEK, Ala. — Sitting here by the creek listening to the water flow over the rocks and the birds sing in the…
Federal Judge Rules Against Fracking on Public Land in Monterey California
A view of a long leaf pine forest looking toward Mt. Cheaha from the Talladega Scenic Parkway in the proposed Alabama fracking zone – By Glynn Wilson – A federal judge has ruled that the federal Bureau of Land Management…
Exxon is Hiding the Truth About the Pipeline Spill in Mayflower, Arkansas
You Can Help by Signing the Petition Below – Imagine you are a proud new home owner, but just two hours after signing the papers, your realtor texts you saying that there is a massive oil spill. Toxic tar sands…
Senate Passes Open Carry Gun Law to Allow Lifetime Permit and Guns in Cars
Republicans in control of the Alabama Senate passed an open carry gun law this week that will allow for free, lifetime permits to carry pistols in cars and trucks and turn the state back in time to the wild West,…
Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Ruptures, Dumps 84,000 Gallons on Mayflower, Arkansas
By Glynn Wilson – Forty-five minutes. That’s how much time it took a ruptured pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas, on Friday to dump at least 84,000 gallons of tar sands crude into a residential neighborhood and force the evacuation of 22…
EPA Updates Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for New Power Plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued updates to pollution limits for new power plants under the mercury and air toxics standards on Friday, based on new information and analysis that became available to the agency after the rule was finalized.…
President Obama Nominates Tom Perez for Secretary of Labor
By Glynn Wilson – President Barack Obama nominated Tom Perez, a Hispanic who has served as the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights for the past four years, to join his cabinet on Monday as the new Secretary…
Senators Question Sally Jewell, Obama’s Choice for Secretary of the Interior
By Michael Brune – Sierra Club Executive Director – Watching the members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources question Sally Jewell, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, brought to mind John McPhee’s classic Encounters with…
Climate of Uncertainty: Planning for the Hoax Apocalypse
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Deniers and doubters of global warming, frequent bedfellows with haters of the government, have the government to thank for opportunities to make money off global warming. The accursed feds concluded years ago that…
Open Meeting Scheduled to Consider Natural Gas ‘Fracking’ in Alabama National Forests
– By Glynn Wilson – In what federal officials are calling an “open house,” the Southeastern field Office of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service have invited the public to “learn more” about the plan to…
Cynicism on the Potomac? State Department Signs Off On Keystone XL Pipeline
By Michael Brune – Sierra Club Executive Director – You know the news is going to be bad when they bury it at 4 p.m. on a Friday. We dealt with this for eight years during the Bush administration. I…
Obama Administration Partners With Industry in the War Against Cyber Threats, Hackers
By Glynn Wilson – The Obama administration is partnering with industry in the war against cyber threats and hackers, according to an address on Thursday by Robert S. Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to security professionals in…
Environmental Trial of the Century Begins in New Orleans: Will BP Pay the Ultimate Price?
By Glynn Wilson – The historic trial of BP for the horrific Gulf Oil Spill of 2010 began in New Orleans on Monday, and Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, liaison counsel for the Gulf States, made the case clear in…
If Congress Doesn’t Act by March 1, Automatic Budget Cuts Will Hurt the Economy
The Projected Impact of Cuts on Middle Class Families, the Economy and Jobs in Alabama – Unless Congress acts by March 1, a series of automatic cuts will take effect, threatening hundreds of thousands of middle class jobs. Referred to…
Gulf Coast Organizations Protest Obama Administration’s Settlement with BP
BP’s oil still pollutes Gulf Shores beaches – By Glynn Wilson – On the eve of a major portion of the trial against the oil and equipment companies responsible for the largest and worst environmental disaster in history in the…
Transocean Pleads Guilty in Gulf Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Sentenced to Pay $400 Million in Criminal Penalties, the Second-Largest Criminal Clean Water Act Fine in U.S. History – BP’s oil still pollutes Gulf Shores beaches – By Glynn Wilson – Transocean Deepwater Inc. pleaded guilty to a violation of…