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Normal 0 Unabomber? Lake Oswego? What the Fuck?   All this plus the soccer mums in their SUV's.   If you still believe we need to import natural gas from foreign shores at great expense, tremendous risk and environmental catastrophe.  Get this:  A proposed $3 billion nat... Read more

Normal 0 How long will it take to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation once and for all?  We have received rosy predictions up until now   A new study  of nuclear sites across the country shows there is THREE-times more plutonium in southeast Washington than the fed... Read more

Normal 0 American Muslim travelers these days face denial of ‘forced exile’, no due process and pressure to become informants – just for the unintentional crime of travel.   The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today issued a travel advisory to American Musl... Read more

Normal 0  It's a 'Get Up, Stand Up' Day... In Washington D.C. activists are occupying the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) risking arrest  in order to get the message across:  Massey Mining is wagging the dog and Mountaintop Removal Mining is th... Read more

Normal 0 In Washington State, the Department of Natural Resources has got something up its sleeve – a chainsaw, actually.  Just off I-5 near Woodlawn an old-growth  timber sale is underway and under the radar.  But residents are watching and even calling their community... Read more

Normal 0 Pipedream to Pipe-mare for Big Gas:  Yesterday the Palomar Pipeline Company submitted a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission indicating that the pipeline in its entirety is on indefinite delay. The company cites the bankruptcy of Bradwood LNG as a... Read more

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Normal 0 Normal 0 Yesterday the American Civil Liberties Union has challenged the government's no-fly list in a federal lawsuit filed here  behalf of 10 people.   The complaint alleges that the list has illegally kept innocent citizens or legal residents from... Read more

Normal 0 Neighbors for Clean Air  {www.whatsinourair.org}has organized a rally today at Pioneer Courthouse Square.  Here are the details:  811 SW 6th Ave Portland, Oregon 97296 Wednesday, June 30th 4:00PM We talked with Ray Ring Senior Editor with High Country News about... Read more

Normal 0 Toronto prrotesters are spending the day in court...which is better that spending it in jail.  And since one's own home is no longer a safe haven, that option may be off the table, too.  At least one Toronto resident awoke to the barrel of a gun in the face.  A... Read more