[posted by Steven Mufson on The Washington Post, February 14, 2017] The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes on Tuesday submitted a new filing in a District of Columbia federal court in another last-ditch effort to stop completion of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. The filing calls the actions of the Army Corps of Engineers in issuing a final easement for the oil pipeline — as well as the agency’s environmental...

[posted by Mary Jo Dilonardo on Mother nature network, February 7, 2017]  It’s not over, but he’s won the first round in 16-year pollution case. On the eve of the Lunar New Year in 2001, Farmer Wang Enlin was socializing with his neighbors when the house they were in was flooded by wastewater from a nearby factory, reports the Daily Mail. The toxic wastewater also flooded some of the farmland in the village of Yushutun in...

[posted by Entitle collective and Stefania Barca on Entitle Blog, January 31, 2017] In the first post of the Ecology after capitalism series, Stefania Barca argues that degrowth has potential to facilitate the discussion and practice of an emancipatory ecological class-consciousness, provided it engages with the centrality of work and class in the transition to a post-carbon and post-capitalist paradigm. Ecological economist Giorgos...

[posted on The Democracy Center] PUBLIC STATEMENT – TO CEASE THE JUDICIAL PERSECUTION AGAINST MILLER DUSSÁN AND ELSA ARDILA AND IN SUPPORT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THE QUIMBO DAM PROJECT (ASOQUIMBO), IN COLOMBIA. Background: Miller Dussán is a Colombian university professor and President of the Association of Those Affected by the Quimbo dam (ASOQUIMBO). El Quimbo is a mega-dam built by the Italian corporate energy...

[posted by Nina Lakhani on The Guardian, 18 January 2017] Goldman prize winner Isidro Baldenegro López, who was known for his activism against illegal logging, was shot dead months after Berta Cáceres was murdered. An indigenous Mexican activist who received the prestigious Goldman environmental prize for his crusade against illegal logging has been shot dead, the second award-winner to have been murdered in less than 12 months....

[posted on ToxicLeaks, 19 January 2017] Domestic media reported that a red-mud reservoir at Sanmenxia in Mianchi County failed at approximately half past six in the afternoon of December 15th. The reservoir, operated by East Hope Sanmenxia Aluminum Co., Ltd. reportedly flooded the area with toxic tailings, leading to the immediate death of at least two individuals. Local emergency-management officials, including representatives from...