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...
View ArticleOpen Meeting Scheduled to Consider Natural Gas ‘Fracking’ in Alabama National...
– 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...
View ArticleClimate 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...
View ArticleSenators 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...
View ArticlePresident 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...
View ArticleEPA 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...
View ArticleTar 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...
View ArticleSenate 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...
View ArticleExxon 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...
View ArticleFederal 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...
View ArticleCamping 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...
View Article‘Good Jobs, Green Jobs’ Conference to Bring Unions and Environmentalists...
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...
View ArticleAFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Joins Labor With Environmentalists in BlueGreen...
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...
View ArticleFracking in the Talladega National Forest is Not in the National, State or...
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...
View ArticleA Beach Hotel Conference Center is Not Coastal Restoration in Wake of BP Gulf...
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...
View ArticleSierra Club Asks U.S. Forest Service to Withdraw Oil and Gas Lease Sale in...
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...
View ArticleGulf Coast Restoration Council Releases Draft Report
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council released the a draft report with a plan for restoring the Gulf Coast’s ecosystem and economy this week, along with a draft environmental assessment now...
View ArticleRetail Giant Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty To Federal Environmental Crimes
Corporation to Pay More Than $81 Million in Civil Fines – By Glynn Wilson – The retail giant Wal-Mart pleaded guilty Tuesday in a California federal court to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act...
View ArticleEngulfed State Park: Enviro Presto Chango
By David Underhill – The dermatologist moonlighting as Alabama’s governor, Robert Bentley, has shown that neither of these pursuits is his true talent. He is actually a master prestidigitator. Only an...
View ArticleEPA Survey Says $384 Billion is Needed to Upgrade Water Treatment Plants and...
Unions Say the Money Would Generate High Paying Jobs and Boost the Economy – By Glynn Wilson – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released results of a survey this week showing that $384 billion...
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