EcoWatch: More than 150 people packed the Town of Reading Court in New York on April 17 to witness what they believe is a shocking miscarriage of justice.
Three members of a group dubbed the Seneca Lake 12--massage therapist Melissa Chapman of Schuyler County, farm owner Michael Dineen of Seneca County and Sandra Steingraber, PhD, author, biologist and distinguished scholar at Ithaca College--were sentenced to jail terms for their resistance to the heavy industrialization of the peaceful rural region...