The Environmental Protection Agency has its eyes on pollution from backyard barbecues. The agency announced that it is funding a University of California project to limit emissions resulting in grease drippings with a special tray to catch them and a “catalytic” filtration system. The $15,000 project has the “potential for global application,” said the school. […]
Stop The Fast Track To A Future Of Global Corporate Rule. The Dangers Underlying the TPP and TTIP “Trade Agreements”
Several major international agreements are under negotiation which would greatly empower multinational corporations and the World Economic Forum is promoting a new model of global governance that creates a hybrid government-corporate structure. Humankind is proceeding on a path to global corporate rule where transnational corporations would not just influence public policy, they would write the […]
GOT WATER? HOW ABOUT THE RIGHT TO USE IT?
FA Note: This article provides background for the subsequent post, “CSKT Compact Breaches State Sovereignty”. Agenda 21, Section II. CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT, calls for control of ALL natural resources by the UN’s Department of Sustainable Deveopment, through local indigenous peoples, as with the ongoing efforts to remove all four Klamath River […]
CSKT Compact Breaches State Sovereignty
Note: our heartfelt thanks to former Senator Verdell Jackson, an outspoken critic of the CSKT water compact for this article that will be sent out to all legislators and newspapers throughout the state. by Verdell Jackson, Kalispell Ten thousand water claims ready to be filed by the CSKT has been an effective threat for the proponents […]
Superior Court (Alameda County) Rules in Favor of ABAG and One Bay Area
Litigation Seeks to Protect the American Form of Government In a result oriented decision, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo ruled against Freedom Advocates and others in the war over protecting Cities and Counties from a transformation of local government (One Bay Area). The new form of government in the San Francisco Bay Area […]
Al Gore Wants to Ban Cars in Cities
If you live in a major city and own a car, you might not be able to keep your car in the city, or you might have to give up your car all together. You see, former Vice President Al Gore and his current partner in crime, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon, are looking to […]
Proposed water quality rules may limit ag activities
A new effort to regulate grazing and its potential impacts on water quality has California ranchers concerned new rules could limit their food production activities and yield little environmental benefits. State water regulators launched a series of public listening sessions around the state during January to solicit public comments before developing a new “Grazing Regulatory […]
Greenhouse Gases “Rise” in Importance for NEPA Reviews –National Environmental Policy Act
Just before Christmas, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) published revised draft guidance intended to direct federal agencies on when and how to consider the effects of greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and climate change when evaluating the environmental effects of proposed agency actions under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). Consideration of climate change is […]