The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black Hills of South Dakota, ancestral home to the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and groundwater. But this time, writes Ben Whitford, the Lakota are not alone ...
… Protect our sacred water! Ben Whitford | 3rd March 2014 News Mining Ecocide Indigenous Peoples USA Water Nuclear Power bh-protect-water.png The curse of Uranium has fallen once …
America's coal-fired power plants produce 140 million tons of ash a year, reports Ben Whitford, most of it dumped in open storage ponds that contaminate drinking water with arsenic and heavy metals. And now Presidential candidate Jeb Bush is promising to scrap 'new and costly' (actually feeble) EPA regulations before they have even been implemented.
… open storage ponds that contaminate drinking water with arsenic and heavy metals. And now … of coal-fired energy generation, mixed with water to make it easier to pour into an … of the crude pit and entering the local groundwater. That's especially problematic in rural …
You won’t catch Mad Men's Don Draper hugging trees - but experts say the ad man’s modern heirs on Madison Avenue could have a crucial role to play in bringing environmentalism firmly into mainstream consumerism. Ben Whitford reports.
… app that displays a virtual glass of water; if drivers accelerate and brake gently … firm that in 2011 created a series of water-conservation PSAs in partnership with … they run half-empty dishwashers or leave the water running while they brush their teeth. …
Personnel at the EPA have been heavily impacted by the ongoing shutdown, leading some commentators to question the necessity of the government agency post-shutdown. Ben Whitford reports....
… to dump pollutants into America's air, water and soil. Experts say that while … run, firms that vent filth into the air or water during the shutdown will likely never be … somewhere, some outbreak from dirty drinking water, or some contaminant getting into the …
A dynamic environmental activism movement pioneered by highly engaged youth from native communities is spreading across North America. Ben Whitford reports......
… the Keystone pipeline, the erosion of clean-water protections, or the use of reclaimed … centre. Issues such as conservation and clean-water protections serve as gateways, McAdam … "You don't have to be indigenous to drink water," McAdam notes. Environmental activism …
Few groups have done more to further the US conservative agenda - and harm progressive causes - than the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. But as Ben Whitford reports, civil society is fighting back.
… private companies control of key waste-water and drinking-water services; efforts to obstruct the …
As a growing number of chefs put bugs on the menu, Ben Whitford samples his first ‘entomophagic' meal and talks to the edible-insect entrepreneurs hoping to convert the rest of us to the environmental and nutritional benefits of eating insects....
… Insects also need negligible space and water, can eat waste that would otherwise be …
The US is busy negotiating two sprawling new trade deals, with the European Union and 11 Pacific Rim nations, and progressives are up in arms. Ben Whitford asks: Just how bad are the deals?
… TTIP could lead governments to preemptively water down environmental regulations rather …
It's the fossil fuel industry's latest stroke of genius - a coal substitute that's cheaper, dirtier and more toxic than coal itself, writes Ben Whitford. The waste product of refining heavy oil from Canada's tar sands, petcoke is stored in open mountains around Chicago's 'Slag Valley', sending plumes of sticky black dust over poor neighborhoods every time the wind blows.
… steel mills that crowded around the brown waters of the Calumet River for most of the …
Ben Whitford reports on an unlikely yet growing movement in the U.S. which embraces the Christian God but also preaches protection of, rather than dominion over, the natural world.
… the statement said. That declaration was a watershed moment for “creation care”, says its … of our forests, soils, wildlife, air, water, seas, and climate,” Orr wrote. “It is a …