TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
“For once in your life, listen to me and don’t play your political conniving games with the science to favor the registrants. For once do the right thing and don’t make decisions based on how it affects your bonus.” These words, penned in 2013 by former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientist Marion Copley, have an Read More…
A federal court has ruled that the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians have a right federal rights to groundwater in the Coachella Valley. California – On Tuesday a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling which found that the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla tribe had a stronger claim to groundwater in the Coachella Valley Read More…
Glyphosate is the main chemical active in several brands of agricultural and corporate farming herbicides used in the growing fields; in GMO seed crop cultures; and in what’s called “preharvest staging” [1]. That’s when the herbicide is sprayed several days [3 to 5 days] prior to crop harvest to “ensure” seed heads mature evenly. Some Read More…
Officials were warned twelve years in advance about potential safety hazards at the Oroville Dam in Butte County, California, which now faces the risk of flooding nearby residential areas as a result of a broken spillway and increased rainfall. Local outlet Mercury News reports: “Three environmental groups — the Friends of the River, the Sierra Read More…
Radiation inside one of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power facility has reached an “unimaginable” level according to experts. Because so much nuclear material from Fukushima escaped into the Pacific Ocean, there are many scientists that believe that it was the worst environmental disaster in human history, but most people in the general Read More…
President Donald Trump’s decision to move forward with the Keystone XL pipeline may ultimately backfire, as the State Department has estimated the pipeline will only create 35 permanent jobs after the one or two years’ worth of construction work has been completed. According to Census.gov, the current population of the United States is over 316 million. Congratulations Read More…