Congress is holding hearings on the use of carbon monoxide by retailers in meat. Continue reading “Congress Probes Widespread Use of Carbon Monoxide in Meat”
Category: Environment
An animal control company working for the government has been accused of a massacre of pets that included burning some alive or tossing live animals from a bridge for a 50 foot plunge. Continue reading “Alleged Animal Control Technique in Puerto Rico: Throwing Pets Off Bridge by the Dozens”
Corruption in Alaska has always been an open secret, particularly with continual allegations surrounding Sen. Ted Stevens and his family. Now, the federal government has released secret tapes showing how crude and open this corruption is in the state capitol. Continue reading “Former GOP Speaker of Alaskan House Said He Would “Sell Soul” to Make Oil Companies Happy”
A jury found Douglas Hoffman, a 60-year old Ariz. man, was found guilty of cutting down or poisoning 546 trees from October 2004 until his arrest in November 2005. Continue reading “Man Convicted of Cutting and Poisoning 500 Trees for View in Nevada”
The United States ranks near the bottom of industrialized nations in infant deaths with roughly seven babies died for every 1,000 live births dying before their first birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Continue reading “U.S. Ranks as One of Worst Industrialized Nations in Infant Deaths”
Environmentalists have long complained that ships cause serious environmental damage with diesel fuel that has over 2000 times the sulfur content of car diesel. Now, a U.S. study estimates that as many as 60,000 people die each year from the pollution, particularly in coastal areas. Continue reading “Ship Smoke Kills 60,000 People a Year, Study Finds”
Jose Antonio Mosqueda, 18, was sentenced to just 270 days in jail (with credit for 156 days already served and for good conduct) after he admitted to taking a pet tortoise from an autistic boy, slashing its legs and neck, stabbing it through the shell, and throwing it against a wall. Continue reading “Boy Who Brutally Tortured a Tortoise Gets Only 270 days”
One of my former students, Courtney Stark Vail, is an international environmental activist and sent this additional video of the dolphin massacre conducted each year in Japan. These videos are efforts to educate the world as to the sheer brutality and senselessness of this tradition. For the video, click here
Japan has long been the focus of international condemnation for its killling of whales and dolphins. Like seal killers, however, these practices were only recently captured on camera to show the brutality of the process. This video captures the annual trapping and killing of dolphin for their meat, which happens is high in mercury but sold regardless of health warnings. For the video, click here
The Supreme Court has grant cert to hear the Exxon Valdez cse and to agree whether Exxon Mobil should have to pay any punitive damages for the 1989 disaster that fouled 1,200 miles of pristine Alaskan shoreline. Continue reading “Supreme Court to Hear Exxon Valdez Case”
FEMA is still trying to recover from its almost criminal negligence during the Katrina disaster. Eager to court good news on its California efforts, however, FEMA showed equally bad judgment in staging a news conference in which staffers posed questions like reporters without revealing the deception to the public. Continue reading “FEMA Fakes News Conference Using Staff Members as Faux Reporters”
The UN Environment Program’s fourth Global Environmental Outlook is out and it is bleak. Continue reading “U.N. Commission Warns Global Warming and Over-Population Now Threat to Human Survival”
President Bush has only recently back off of his long opposition to the theory of global warming, once even rejected his own scientists support of the theory as “junk science.” Now, however, it has been disclosed that the White House cut out testimony to Congress that revealed the scope of the dangers of global warming to citizens. Continue reading “White House Barred Release of CDC Testimony on Global Warming to Congress”
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., has opposed a modest program to save turtles being wiped out along a highway in Michigan. Continue reading “Congressman Opposes Program to Save Protected Turtles and Calls for Using Money to Build More Highways”
Given the recent crack down on reporters in Arizona, the prior column from the Washington Post below on the grand jury secrecy may be of interest. Continue reading “Grand Jury Secrecy and the Rocky Flats Scandal”