By Jake Anderson Becoming the seventh city to sue Monsanto over contaminated waterways, Portland passed a resolution last week authorizing city attorney Tracy Reeve to take the biotech company to federal court over its decades-long dispersal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The city has spent more…
By Jason Erickson The plight of the pollinator continues to be documented in an increasing number of studies that have linked neonicotinoid pesticides to a range of negative effects upon bees and their colonies. Neonicotinoids have been implicated in tens of millions of bees instantly…
By Jim Erickson Monitoring of U.S. drinking water supplies for chemical and microbial contaminants should be increased, especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant women, infants and young children, according to the final report from a panel of scientists and engineers that advises President Obama….
By Makia Freeman, guest Natural Blaze Standing Rock 2017 will continue to be an issue. The fight of the Native American Indian tribes, environmentalists and the water protectors (protestors) is not over. Although the Army Corps of Engineers announced on Sunday December 4th, 2016, that…
According to many surveys and studies, driving is actually one of the things that pollute the environment the most. Yet, millions of people are practicing this activity on a daily basis. Of course, many of them know that driving is not something that brings positive…
By Vandita … Because the rain belongs to the overbearing government, because corporate greed claims water is not a human right, and because Americans are not entitled to do what they please on their private property… Remember the Oregon ‘Rain Man’ or Gary Harrington — who…
By Amanda Froelich Tiny exfoliating beads found in face washes, body soaps, and toothpaste might feel good against one’s skin as they lather and repeat, but the plastic particles have actually been found to wreak havoc on the environment, as well as to be potentially harmful to human…
By Derrick Broze Flint, MI — On Tuesday, state prosecutors charged four former government employees with conspiring to violate safety rules for their roles in Flint’s water crisis. As a result of an April 2014 decision by one of the controversial unelected, state-appointed emergency managers, Flint…
By Melissa Dykes There’s a good question for you. It’s being reported that just days before Thanksgiving in Stow Creek Township, New Jersey, 200 dead red-winged blackbirds began “raining” from the sky. And it isn’t the first time in recent weeks this has happened in…
By Whitney Webb A British Petroleum pipeline in Colorado ruptured last week for still “unknown” reasons, spilling similarly unknown quantities of methane-contaminated wastewater into a tributary of the Los Pinos river. British Petroleum (BP), the company behind the devastating “Deepwater Horizon” oil spill in the…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, special guest to Natural Blaze Duty to Warn: Highlighting Enbridge Energy’s 2010 Kalamazoo River Pipeline Spill Also see a major Wall Street Journal article on this important topic: “This investigation identified a complete breakdown of safety at Enbridge. Their employees performed…
By Philip A. Farruggio Wednesday’s USA Today Main Section had an extensive investigative piece on lead in the drinking water supply of many rural communities. They found: About 100,000 people get their drinking water from utilities that discovered high lead but failed to treat the water or remove the…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, special guest to Natural Blaze Duty to Warn: Northern Minnesota and the PolyMet Project: PolyMet’s Tailings “Pond” Could Someday Create a Dead St. Louis River and a Dying Lake Superior – Is That an Acceptable Risk to Take? “ALL tailings “ponds” are a…
By Whitney Webb Researchers at the University of Bristol have managed to transform radioactive graphite waste into efficient diamond batteries with a lifespan of over 5,000 years. Thanks to the work of UK scientists, diamonds may soon become much more than a luxury good. A…
By Alex Pietrowski Water is life, unless said water has been poisoned and is toxic, then water kills life. As the Standing Rock movement enters the next phase of their struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the world has for once mustered en masse for…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, special guest to Natural Blaze Lessons From the Most Toxic Open Pit Copper Mine in the WorldIn November of 1995, a large flock of migrating snow geese, heading south for the winter, took refuge from a snowstorm and landed on…
By Nadia Prupis The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed on Tuesday that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminates drinking water—but claimed a lack of information makes it impossible to determine how widespread the risks are. In a final report issued Tuesday, Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and…
By Amanda Froelich Meet the future of plastic: a bag that looks and feels like plastic, but will biodegrade within 180 days and can be eaten. When several Indian cities introduced a partial or total ban on plastic bags, environmental advocates applauded the effort. However,…
By Lily Dane Washington is suing agrichemical giant Monsanto over pollution from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). It is the first state to file such a suit, joining cities including Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, Long Beach, and San Diego in California. Those cases are ongoing. Gov….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor During a recent snowstorm, several thousand or more snow geese died together after they were forced to take refuge on an acidic, metal-laden body of water of an old, open pit mine in Montana. The 700-acre Berkeley Pit – a former mine…
