March 4th, 2011

Tim DeChristopher, the college student and environmentalist who bid on oil and gas leases of federal wilderness in Utah to drive up the price and protest what he considered to be illegal use of federal land, was convicted yesterday in a Salt Lake City courtroom.

The jury found that he had interfered with the Bureau of Land Management public auction in 2008 in which he bid for about $1.8 million in leases in the Arches and Canyonlands national parks without genuinely intending to buy the leases.

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June 9th, 2010

The Natural Resources Defense Council, and many other environmental groups, are campaigning with renewed vigor for a clean energy bill, in the wake of the ongoing BP oil disaster.

In this NRDC video, longtime conservationist Robert Redford reflects on the oil catastrophe, saying its time to recognize that self-interested oil companies will never want to give up risky oil drilling, if there’s profit to be made.

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May 16th, 2008

Photo: Copyright © 2008 Oceana Longtime ocean advocate Ted Danson is pressing Canada to take a more active role in efforts to reduce fisheries subsidies. By Shermakaye Bass Celebrities trade on their celebrity and always have – sometimes in not so earth-friendly ways. But among the nobler echelons of Hollywood, Manhattan and London, renown is [...]

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