Environment At Risk From Anticipated Farm Bill Cuts

Monday, December 12, 2011 Environment At Risk From Anticipated Farm Bill Cuts On October 17, a massive dust storm hit Lubbock, Texas, adding to already significant agricultural and environmental devastation across the South this year. That same day, leaders of the U.S. House and Senate Agriculture Committees recommended cuts to the federal Farm Bill, including its conservation programs. Durban: Saving the Planet or Saving Face? Right-Wing Group Targets Obama Energy Loan Gas Drilling In Ohio Brings Jobs, But At What Cost? Finding Coal's Future Might Require A Look Back At The Past 208 New Species Discovered In Threatened Region Of Southeast Asia BLOG POSTS Steven Cohen: Understanding the Failure of the UN's Climate Talks The U.N climate talks have failed because the issue has become too important for the world's more powerful nations to assign negotiations to the U.N.'s deliberative bodies. Marc Bekoff: Empathic Rats: Rats Choose to Help Others Over Chocolate Some fascinating new results about empathy in laboratory rats caution against our tooting our "we're so special" horn too loudly or proudly. Robert Redford: Keystone XL and Jobs: Just More Pipe Dreams This week the GOP leadership, once again, has sided with Big Oil against the will of the American people. Carol Pierson Holding: Union Rats' New Focus: Asbestos By adding the sign "Asbestos Kills" around Scabbies' necks, the Asbestos, Lead and Hazardous Waste Laborer's Union 78 of NYC, Long Island and New Jersey is able to bring support for the Scabbies to their cause: only union labor is safe for asbestos removal. Marcia G. Yerman: Ordinary Citizens Fight Big Coal in The Last Mountain Featuring citizen activists fighting for clean air and water against entrenched interests and corporate dollars, the documentary combines backstory, statistics, and human interest to explain more fully the narrative of where our electricity comes from.

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