http://www.greenchange.org/ Green Change is a community of people with Green values: justice, grassroots democracy, sustainability and non-violence. http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5939 <div class="text blurb">Today, Green Change started a campaign to revoke the corporate charter of BP America Inc., the company responsible for the catastrophic oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. </div> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5939 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5868 <div class="text blurb">In the days since Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig, at least seven new permits for drilling and five environmental waivers have been granted.</div> Mon, 24 May 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5868 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5836 <div class="text blurb">It's a good thing for Elena Kagan that there's no non-GMO litmus test for Supreme Court nominees. She'd flunk.</div> Wed, 12 May 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5836 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5798 <div class="text blurb">During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.</div> Wed, 05 May 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5798 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5788 <div class="text blurb">The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began washing ashore Friday along the Louisiana coast....Meanwhile, White House and Interior Department officials said Friday that currently planned offshore petroleum exploration and production drilling can continue. </div> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5788 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5785 <div class="text blurb">The US Coast Guard says five times as much oil as previously thought could be leaking from a well beneath where a rig sank in the Gulf of Mexico last week. </div> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5785 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5772 <div class="text blurb">The oil well connected to a drilling rig that sank in the Gulf of Mexico last week after a fiery explosion is gushing crude oil, raising fears of a severe environmental hazard.</div> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5772 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5770 <div class="text blurb">Thousands of whales could be killed legally for the first time in 25 years under new proposals put forward by the International Whaling Commission. </div> Sun, 25 Apr 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5770 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5769 <div class="text blurb">"It's not fair to say it's dead, but it's on the back burner... It could happen this year, but at this point it's not likely," said a senior Democratic aide familiar with Reid's thinking. </div> Fri, 23 Apr 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5769 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5729 <div class="text blurb">Barack Obama earned the instant anger of environmentalists and many of his core liberal supporters yesterday by declaring his intention to open vast areas of off-shore waters for future drilling for oil and gas, reversing decades-old policies of leaving the waves to fish, gulls and holidaymakers.</div> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5729 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5725 <div class="text blurb">The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday. </div> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5725 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5718 <div class="text blurb">"Save the Whales!" One of the earliest slogans of the environmental movement, it galvanized a generation of conservationists.</div> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5718 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5713 <div class="text blurb">Today, President Obama announced that he will recess appoint Islam A. Siddiqui to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Siddiqui is a pesticide lobbyist and Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, an agribusiness lobbying group that represents Monsanto. </div> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5713 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5644 <div class="text blurb">Yet as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world's worst polluters--and burying science-based environmentalism in return. Sometimes the corruption is subtle; sometimes it is blatant.</div> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5644 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5612 <div class="text blurb">The proliferation of nuclear power is simply not worth the costs to public health and the environment or the extraordinary and endless financial costs to the American taxpayer.</div> Sat, 27 Feb 2010 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5612