"Big Food is Spending Millions to Lobby for Less Transparency"
"From GMO labeling to pesticides to the source of the meat you buy, a handful of companies are spending heavily to keep information off your food labels."
Source: Civil Eats, 08/26/2015
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"Attorney Hounding Climate Scientists Covertly Funded By Coal Industry"
"Christopher Horner, an attorney who claims that the earth is cooling, is known within the scientific community for hounding climate change researchers with relentless investigations and public ridicule, often deriding scientists as 'communists' and frauds. ... New court documents reveal one source of Horner’s funding: big coal."
Source: The Intercept, 08/26/2015
"Rhino Horns for Sale in San Francisco's Chinatown Despite Crackdown"
"California legislators aiming to pass more stringent regulations on the sale and dissemination of ivory and rhinoceros horns received a boost last Friday when a San Francisco man pleaded guilty to selling an undercover federal agent two black rhinoceros horns for $55,000. The art dealer Lumsden Quan and Mill Valley man Edward Levine will face sentencing in December."
Source: Guardian, 08/25/2015
Black Markets in China Still Driving Tiniest Porpoise to Extinction
"Here’s a sobering update on efforts in Mexico, Hong Kong and mainland China to stave off the extinction of the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise inhabiting Mexican waters at the north end of the Gulf of California that is the world’s smallest, and rarest, cetacean."
Source: Dot Earth, 08/25/2015
"California Dam Lets Water Shared by Farms Flow to Salmon"
"With water scarce in Northern California’s Klamath Basin, a federal agency is again releasing water into the Klamath River to prevent a repeat of the 2002 fish kill that left tens of thousands of adult salmon dead."
Source: AP, 08/25/2015
"How California’s Pesticide Regulator Spun a Concerned Community"
California's Department of Pesticide Regulation gave Ventura County residents a misleading story about why it had allowed cancer-causing pesticide to be used by strawberry farmers near a local high school.
Source: Reveal (CIR), 08/25/2015
"Court Orders Russia To Pay Compensation for Greenpeace Ship Seizure"
"A court in the Netherlands has ordered Russia to pay compensation for seizing the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise during a protest against an offshore oil platform two years ago, a ruling which Moscow dismissed as lacking legal authority."
Source: Reuters, 08/25/2015
Trump Says Keystone XL Pipeline Would Have ‘No Impact’ On Environment
"No leaks, no spills, no impact on climate change. The Keystone XL pipeline would have 'no impact' on the environment if it were approved and built, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday. For that reason, the billionaire said he would approve the controversial project 'immediately' if elected president."
Source: Climate Progress, 08/25/2015
"Solar Power Crosses Threshold, Gets Cheaper Than Natural Gas"
"Several large solar power plants under construction in the United States have in the past few months promised to do something that none has done before: offer prices equal to or lesser than that of a natural gas-fired power plant, even as gas is abundant and cheap."
Source: EnergyWire, 08/25/2015
"Feinstein Asks Obama To Bypass Congress To Create 3 Desert Monuments"
"U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she has asked President Obama to bypass Congress and create three new national monuments in California, giving federal protection to more than 1 million acres of mountain ranges, sandy expanses and forests lying roughly between Palm Springs and the Nevada border."
Source: LA Times, 08/25/2015
