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February 19th, 2012 | Category: Features, News, Washington | Feb. 6, 2012
Associated Press GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK Disposable plastic water bottles soon won’t be sold at the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service announced Monday that it has approved a plan to eliminate the sale of the bottles within 30 days. The bottles make up about 20 percent of the Park’s waste and 30 percent of recyclables. Visitors can fill up reusable containers at water stations, though the ban does not keep them from bringing disposable bottles into [...]
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The 9th Annual Skagit Human Rights Festival March 2012 Whose Valley is it Anyway? Corporate Power or Community Power? March is Human Rights Month in Skagit County, and the Skagit Human Rights Festival has some great events planned to put relevant conversations on the community table. Lee Mann Exhibition–Art opening, Thurs., March 1, 5 p.m, Skagit Valley College multipurpose room. Letters and photos of longtime Skagit Valley human rights advocate Lee Mann on display. His son, Bryce Mann, to make the [...]
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Skagit Human Rights Festival 2012
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by: Coal Free Bellingham Posted on: January 27, 2012
Editor’s Note: Bellingham has taken the first step in following the example of towns and municipalities like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who have recently explicitly asserted their rights as autonomous communities. Pittsburgh has outlawed all Hydraulic Fracturingpractices within its city limits. With support by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, No Coal!, a Bellingham citizen-led political action committee has introduced an ordinance [...]
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December 21st, 2011 | Category: News, Oregon, United States, Washington | Consultant says Oregon needs to ‘catch up’ with irrigated farmland
By MITCH LIES
Capital Press
PORTLAND — Until recently, Oregon Wheat Growers League president Craig Reeder said he thought the world revolved around wheat, potatoes, onions and corn.
After spending a year across the table from environmental advocate Joe Whitworth, Reeder said his priorities have changed.
Today, Reeder said, he cares as much about protecting fish as protecting crop yields.
Whitworth, president of the Freshwater Trust, said Reeder isn’t the [...]
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December 21st, 2011 | Category: Health, News, Oregon, United States, Washington |
Poll: Water Quality Top Environmental Concern Of NW Residents
OPB | December 7, 2011 | Portland, OR
Residents of the Northwest consider water quality their top environmental concern, according to a new survey released today by EarthFix.
Results of the survey suggest residents of the region may want to focus more on their own role in polluting major waterways if they want them to be more pristine.
David Hibbitts & Midghall (DHM Research) of Portland conducted a survey [...]
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By Laura Bly, USA TODAY
Dec. 16, 2011
Barely a month after public outcry over news that a proposed ban on sales of disposable plastic water bottles in Grand Canyon National Park had been abruptly shelved following concerns by parks donor Coca-Cola, the ban is moving forward and could take effect in early 2012.
A National Park Service directive , issued Wednesday, will let parks halt plastic water bottle sales as long as a regional director signs off on [...]
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December 7th, 2011 | Category: Features, News, Washington | Anti-bottling plant group launches website
Whitney Pipkin | Posted: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 3:28 pm
ANACORTES — A group opposing a proposed bottling plant in Anacortes. called Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, has now launched a website. The site is linked to other Defending Water sites that have sprouted up in Oregon and Maine in opposition to similar projects.
The city of Anacortes signed a contract with Tethys Enterprises, Inc. in 2010 that gives the company rights to [...]
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November 15th, 2011 | Category: Features, Rights of Nature, Washington | November 9, 2011
Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban
By FELICITY BARRINGER
Weary of plastic litter, Grand Canyon National Park officials were in the final stages of imposing a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon late last year when the nation’s parks chief abruptly blocked the plan after conversations with Coca-Cola, a major donor to the National Park Foundation.
Stephen P. Martin, the architect of the plan and the [...]
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November 9th, 2011 | Category: Nestlé, News, United States, Washington | By Alli Crook and Caitlin Krown, Tuesday, November 1, 2011
To Tap That, a campaign of the Vassar Greens dedicated to reducing bottled water use on campus, commercial scams and unregulated corruption are expected of all major bottled water companies. From images of mountain springs and false promises of a healthier, cleaner product, bottled water companies have designed a product so cleverly that many are now convinced that they cannot live without it and are willing to pay for something that [...]
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