Endangered Alaska

Men's Journal's Daniel Duane goes deep into the Alaskan wilderness to see what’s at stake with the Pebble Mine project.

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Combining pesticides makes them more deadly to salmon

Common agricultural pesticides that attack the nervous systems of salmon can turn more deadly when they combine with other pesticides, researchers have found.

Scientists from the NOAA Fisheries Service and Washington State University were expecting that the harmful effects would add up as they accumulated in the water. They were surprised to find a deadly synergy occurred with some combinations, which made the mix more harmful and at lower levels of exposure than the sum of the parts.

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The California Water Wars: Not a Conflict Between Fish and People

Dan Bacher dispels the myth that corporate water interests and their political allies would have you believe about preserving the Califorina Delta and Central Vallley rivers.

This is not an issue of "fish versus people versus fish," nor "fish versus jobs." The battle to save the Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas, really comes down to a conflict between a future based on sustainable fishing, farming and recreation or a future based on corporate agribusiness irrigating toxic, drainage-impaired land that should never have been farmed at the expense of Delta and Sacramento Valley farms and healthy fisheries.

LINK (Via:Truthout)

Renewable energy fight in CA spills over into BC

A renewable energy bill now making its way through California's state legislature could further accelerate the development of hydropower in British Columbia.

Environmental groups say PG&E is proposing amendments to the Senate version of the bill (SB 14) in order to import power from B.C. that would not only be cheaper, but would also be classified as “green.” When coupled with new state requirements to boost renewable energy, groups say this would further drive the recent “gold rush” for hydropower in the province.

All those red dots on the map are water power license applications.

LINK (Via: The Cleanest Line)

Here in Washington State Puget Sound Energy has agreed to sell nearly all their wind power to California.

Down Goes Utah House Bill 187!

Dreaming of the Take is reporting that the Utah House of Representatives has voted down HB187 which would have blocked public access to most Utah streams and rivers.

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