Monday, November 25, 2024

Modest wins for minimum wage, huge gains for marijuana legalization amid shock G.O.P. wave

It was an otherwise bright spot for left-leaning voters, on a night punctuated by shocking Republican gains.

EPA approval of Monsanto’s dicamba will ‘massively increase use of toxic pesticides’ on GMO...

The Center for Biological Diversity said the new EPA decision will open the door for dicamba use to jump from less than 1 million pounds to more than 25 million annually.

Bank backing pipeline launches own investigation into treatment of Standing Rock Sioux

$460 million in credit is at stake for the Dakota Access and Bakken pipeline as Norway’s largest bank announces its own “fact-based” evaluation of indigenous rights abuses.
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BREAKING: Dakota Access Pipeline nearly completed

Will Energy Transfer Partners obey the Department of Justice and Army Corps of Engineers orders?
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President Obama admits ‘legitimate concerns’ in GMO debate

“If it turns out that some of these genetically modified foods aren’t healthier, aren’t more productive and use more pesticides then we should follow the science.”

Susan Sarandon wants you to change banks to protest the DAPL

Sarandon is asking for activists to pull their money out of the banks which are invested in the Dakota Access pipeline. #WaterIsLife

Drinking water in Indian Country: More violations, less EPA

Analysis shows more health violations but much less federal enforcement at tribal water treatment plants, suggesting “regulatory neglect.”

How a company with ties to a Dakota Access Pipeline owner flew over protests...

Why was a private company allowed into this airspace when no one else was? What is the background on this company?

Pipeline blast that killed one under investigation by national safety board

House Democrats called for an investigation this week citing their concerns that this was the “third major incident on Colonial’s system in just over a year and the seventh in less than five years.”

USDA approves 2 new varieties of GMO potatoes

It's hardly an exaggeration to say that over the past two decades, the agriculture industry in the U.S. has wholeheartedly embraced GMO crops with gusto