Residents of the Birmingham metropolitan area can rest assured that a controversial political agenda to eliminate area drinking water protections has been defeated at the close of the 2013 Alabama Legislative Session due to the efforts of student advocates from…
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The Overview Effect: Looking at Earth from Space Creates a ‘Cognitive Shift’ in Perception
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Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – Few of us will ever venture past the 60-mile boundary that separates Earth and outer space. If you do, though, you’re likely to experience something known as “the overview effect” — a cognitive…
Sierra Club Asks U.S. Forest Service to Withdraw Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Talladega National Forest
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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…
The Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide Reaches Another Dangerous Benchmark
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The level of the most significant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, passed a long-feared benchmark this week, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for three million years, scientists reported Friday. Carbon dioxide gauges atop Mauna Loa,…
Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy
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By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – In a surprise move, the eight Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday blocked a floor vote on President Obama’s nominee, Gina McCarthy, as U.S. EPA Administrator. In doing so…
Coal Giant Kinder Morgan Drops Coal Export Terminal Plans at Oregon Port
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Coal giant Kinder Morgan has announced its decision to walk away from plans to build a coal export terminal near Clatskanie, Oregon along the Columbia River. The announcement is sending shockwaves across the Northwest, where coal export companies have faced…
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…
New Report on Honey Bee Health Cites Pesticides in Declining Populations
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a comprehensive scientific report on honey bee health on Thursday pointing to multiple factors in the decline of honey bee colony declines in recent years,…
The Sun Is Rising in the West on Alternative Energy
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Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a few weeks ago that his city would be off coal power entirely by 2025, it was both exciting and, as Al Gore put it, “a…
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: But There Will Be Video
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“…I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know … that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m…
Fracking Leases Proposed for National Forests White Washed at ‘Public Meeting’
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Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management on the Hot Seat – Steve Lohr, Forest Supervisor, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A so-called “public meeting” on oil and gas leases proposed for…
A Path to the Future on Immigration Policy
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Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – In 1849, an eleven-year-old boy moved with his family to the United States. More than four decades later, that boy co-founded the Sierra Club and served as its president for the next 22…
Celebrate Earth Day at Noccalula Falls
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Residents of the area around Gadsden, Alabama, will celebrate Earth Day Sunday, April 27 at Noccalula Falls Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970, and it is now celebrated around the world,”…
Celebrate Earth Day On Mobile Bay
On Saturday, April 27, thousands of people in South Alabama will head to the Fairhope Pier to celebrate the state’s largest Earth Day festival. Earth Day Mobile Bay will be observing the three-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster and…
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…
Union Leaders, Environmentalists Discuss Building a National Dialogue on Climate Change, Good Jobs and Reclaiming Democracy
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some of the most powerful union leaders and environmentalists in the country came together in the nation’s capital this week to find common ground on the critical question of how to create jobs…
‘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…
Public Concern About Global Warming is On the Rise Again
A Majority in the U.S. Believe Global Warming is Happening Already – By Glynn Wilson – Apparently all the recent attention in the media about global warming and climate change is having an effect on public opinion. Public concern about…