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Sandra Steingraber: Next 12 Steps to Stop Fracking in New York

2013-01-28 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: 1. I am writing you from an airport in Wisconsin. People here, and across the river in Minnesota, are trying desperately to halt the strip mining of their communities for frac-sand. Trucks are rolling. Silica dust is flying. Hill by hill, bluff by bluff--the land itself is shoveled into railcars and shipped off to the gas fields of America where grains of silica sand are shot into the cracks of fractured bedrock so methane can flow out of it. Whats left behind in Wisconsin and Minnesota are...

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Senate to probe failed Air Force software project as lawmakers call for stop to IT waste

2013-01-26 05:43:52| IT Services - Topix.net

The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to investigate what happened with a massive, failed U.S. Air Force ERP project, amid a rising tide of calls for action on Capitol Hill to reduce wasteful IT spending.

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Sierra Club Turns to Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone Pipeline

2013-01-25 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: Earlier this week, the Sierra Club announced that it is lifting its long-standing institutional prohibition on civil disobedience so that it can protest the development of the tar sands. The club's board of directors approved the change, which executive director Michael Brune made public on Tuesday. While staff and board members have previously participated in acts of civil disobedience in a personal capacity, this is the first time that the organization will take part. The group has been mum...

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How President Obama Can Stop Failing and Start Winning on Climate Change

2013-01-25 10:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: President Obama has promised action to confront climate change. To do that, he must end the detrimental "all of the above" energy policy of his first term. If you'd like to co-sign the open letter and urge the president to take bold action to confront climate change now, you can add your name here. Dear President Obama, It was with great relief and gratitude that we welcomed, at long last, a clarion call in your inaugural address to "respond to the threat of climate change" -- the greatest...

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Groups Initiate Federal Court Battle to Stop Illegal Coal Pollution

2013-01-24 20:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Last March 22 on world water day, Waterkeepers all over the world took action to fight for swimmable, fishable and drinkable waters. Each Waterkeeper chose the issues they felt were the greatest concern to the health of their local community and waterway. The French Broad Riverkeeper and the Western North Carolina Alliance decided to spend world water day gathering hundreds of community members together to call for an end to air and water pollution from the Progress Energy coal fired power plant...

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