I’d like to share my environmental readings of the day. It is quite disturbing to see the toll that has been and continues to be taken on our environment. We still have so much more to learn and even more to do. Enjoy your reading.
1. Scientists convinced of tie between earthquakes and drilling
2. How Radioactive Is the Pacific, Really?
3. Tanning Salons Play Down Hazards, Lawsuits Claim
The authorities said two chains in New York, Portofino Spas, above,
and Total Tan, had engaged in deceptive business practices.
Credit Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
4. A round-the-world scientific expedition will use drones to study plastic pollution
Scientists circumnavigating the globe on a spartan racing catamaran will
spend the coming year deploying drones to collect better data on plastic pollution
1. Relief at a Stiff Price III: Going the Way of Chocolate
Courtesy Blisstree.com
Maca powder flour in glass bowl with macs
2. 7 Ways to Reduce Food Waste This Holiday Season
USDA
When you prepare to welcome family and friends this holiday season, good planning can help avoid wasting food and save you money.
3. Duwamish River Advocates Hopeful EPA’s Plan Will Be Effective
Courtesy duwamishcleanup.org
EPA’s new plan could be the answer Duwamish River advocates are hoping for.
4. Where’s the Senate Torture Report on All the Violence Done to Natives?
5. Obama Declares Bristol Bay Off Limits to New Oil and Gas Drilling Leases
via the White House
A victory in the fight to preserve the vast, pristine watershed region known as Bristol Bay in Alaska.
6. Native Fashion Superstar Bethany Yellowtail Launches Official Site
Looks by Bethany Yellowtail, currently featured on her new official site byellowtail.com.
7. Oglala Lakota Fighter Gets First UFC Win
Twitter
David Michaud, left, throws a punch.
8. Gimmicks and Governing are Old School’s Last Act; Painful Austerity Ahead
Non-Defense Discretionary Spending Falling to Historic Lows
9. ‘Real Life Indian’ Photo Project Geared to Defeat All Those Stereotypes
10. Did You Hear A Tribe Called Red in Trailer for ‘The Gambler’?
11. Environmental Win: Gov. Andrew Cuomo Bans Fracking in New York State
12. Native American Natural Foods (Tanka Bar) President Mark Tilsen
1. Nevada and Southern California Tribes Net $10.4 Million in Grants From EPA
2. Eastern Cherokee Band Forbids Fracking on Its Sovereign Lands
3. Naked Faux Savages and Neo-Racism in Berlin
4. Juliette Lewis Offers Words, Poetry, and Music in Memory of Misty Upham
5. Horse Lovers Share Vision to Develop Native Bronc Riders
6. American Indian Motion Picture Awards, Coming to a Television Near You
7. 1964 Centennial Indian Princesses Gather for Anniversary Reception
8. Thompson Brothers Sign With Nike
9. Hector Vazquez Top Chef for Twin Arrows Navajo Casino
10. Inside the Dirty-Tricks Playbook of Jack Abramoff
11. Cultural Tourism to Be Introduced at AFN Annual Convention
12. Native Cooking: Mixing Up Something New With Cranberries
13. Voters Could Stop Keystone XL Pipeline through South Dakota Senate Race
14. Vote ‘I’ for Indian: Big Tax Break for Natives
15. Time for the Tribal National Park to Properly Honor Native Culture
1. Waste from Ebola poses challenge to hospitals.
2. Overwhelmed U.S. port inspectors unable to keep up with illegal wildlife trade.
3. Measure 92: Labeling genetically engineered foods in Oregon.
4. Bloomberg to back soda tax in Berkeley.
5. BLM prejudged merits of seasonal drilling in petroleum reserve — greens.
6. EPA announces proposed settlement with Niagara Mohawk.
7. EPA starts MCHM air testing, but lacks adequate data.
8. Frack check.
9. ‘We are trying to prepare for the worst’: president of the Haida Nation.
10. Threats to Americans, ranked (by actual threat instead of media hype).
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11. Steyer deploys ark to show menace of climate change in Florida.
12. These maps of water use show why the Western US is in trouble.
13. Climate campaigners ramp up pressure on fossil fuel industry.
14. Florida politicians battle rhetoric as rising seas drive worries over climate change.
15. Indian schools face decayed buildings, poverty.
16. Fukushima radiation nearing West Coast.
17. Asbestos toll rises from factory of death as fallout continues.
18. China tests outright logging ban in state forests.
19. Health scare in Texas also sends political ripples.
20. Amid assurances on Ebola, Obama is said to seethe.
21. In conspicuous success, Senegal is declared Ebola-free.
22. Here’s what you need to know about the deep-sea gold rush.
23. The Dutch boy mopping up a sea of plastic.
24. Loaded with lead: How gun ranges poison workers and shooters.
1. Study examines cancer risk from 1st atom-bomb test
2. Congress pushes nuclear expansion despite accidents at weapons lab
Weapons watchdog says government’s position ‘increasingly hypocritical’ as US prepares to increase production of warheads in spite of safety and environmental concerns
3. Invasive apple snail threatens Florida Everglades clean up
4. Frac Sand Rush Threatens American Towns, Advocates Warn
5. North Bay residents up in arms over TransCanada plan to switch crude oil for gas in local pipeline
6. EPA chief Gina McCarthy asks water professionals to back new wetland rules
7. Greens take 2014 fight to states
8. How a fishery that was once ‘a marvel of the world’ died
9. Auditors fault EPA for lax chemical safeguards
10. Personal air monitors less useful than hoped
11. Judge says no to Detroit water shutoff moratorium
12. Air near chemical plant remains polluted long after it closed
13. Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF
Species across land, rivers and seas decimated as humans kill for food in unsustainable numbers and destroy habitats
14. CSIS seeks to limit scope of energy activists’ complaint probe
Canadian spy agency is pushing back against a civil liberties group’s complaint for being “overly broad” regarding concerns of national energy policy.
15. The Curious Case of the Chinese Chicken Import-Export Business
16. Early, frequent antibiotic use linked to childhood obesity
17. Water contaminant linked to children’s low IQs
1. Indian National Rodeo Finals Launches Health Campaign; Declares Diabetes
2. Are Second-Round Payments for Cobell Coming Soon?
3. Treaties, Ceded Lands, and Recognition
4. Photos: The Akwesasne International Powwow in Cornwall Island, Ontario, Canada
5. Video: People’s Climate March Lays Out the Science, Dovetailing With
6. Salmon Homecoming Dedicated to Life and Memory of Billy Frank Jr.
7. EPA Climate Justice Blog: Opening Immigrants’ Eyes to Environmental Health in
8. Raza-Blue sky
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